Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-23

Somebody once wrote a whole book
about "Cabbages and Kings" but has
anybody ever chosen to write about
THE Arctic and Dolls?
A scientific expedition will sail from
Wiscasset, Me-, next Monday, under
the veteran Arctic explorer, Comdr.
Donald B. Macmillan, but he Is short
Of supplies-50 more doll babies are
wanted, and they must reach him
by breakfast time Monday morning.
| Otherwise the North Pole may go
hang! He would no more dare enter
the realm of Santa Claus without that
new colony of SO more dolls. than
Comdr. Byrd would sail out over the
| Atlantic without gas!
| No specifications are given as to
what kind of dolls are needed. Some
may go to sleep and stay asleep all
through the six.month Arctic night.
Some may cry when pinched, and
others may call Mamma" though
what will the natives think Of that,
when they don't know English? Time
| Is too short now to try to teach any
doll-however smart--to speak Eskimo
with true accent, before the sailing
next Monday. So just mail all 'ad.
venturous dolls today to Comdr.
Donald B. Macmillan Wiiscasset, Me-,
and he will drill them in Eskimo baby
talk while lodging polar bears and
sealskin.clothed mammals.
| What do dolls feed on in the Arctic?
Crying dolls, Of course, get plenty
| of blubber, and good little dolls get
huge pieces of Eskimo pie and nam.
moth dishes of ice cream. In fact,
most of that country is made Of ice
cream, as everybody knows who
hasn't been there. Some swampy
places are just water ice," favored
with "a stick" and colored with
aurora borealis-all bright red like
lipsticks and emerald green and gold.
tint and splinters of rainbow. For
play the dolls have the greatest ice
slides one ever heard of, they can
slide for miles and miles--a million
or more. Maybe a billion miles!
"Wanted-Fifty dolls! Hurry! Go.
ing right out to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Santa Claus in their Summer home.
Expect to be frozen in for Is months.
then return. but do not promise in
the Eskimo little mothers who are
aching to love them. There are only
two days year up there and no
baby was ever weaned in two or
three days. Even Washington little
mothers know better than to expect
that in Santa Claus land.
(Signed) MACMILLAN"
"One touch of dolly makes the
whole world kin"-or something like
that. A cousin is a kin. French call
all kins parents" Highbrows have
studied dolls and they tell us that
dolls are as old as Adam and Eve
and as ubiquitous as mosquitoes.
ubiquitous" Is some word"-sort
of highbrow itself-but it's in the
dictionary and it means that dolls
saw the snake first In the Garden
of Eden, and ran as fast as their
wound-up legs would take them. so
that they spread over all the world
just like man and woman grown
ups. There Is no place on earth and
no time in history where their lines
people used to bury all dolls with
the girlies who died while loving
them so. That's why we find so
many dolls now in ancient graves.
Such cunning little dolls who lived
in Thebes and Egypt and Greece and
Rome-long before there ever was
a Observation-Disclosures of years
before the Christ-child was laid in
the manger and the shepherds came
and sang the Christmas Carol! Even
then there were dolls that could wave
their arms. Others, too, that could
whistle and sing.
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There never was a girl baby who
didn't love a doll. I'll now tell q
truly true story of a doll and a
soldier This happened on the Christ
mas following the great armistice of
the World War. Guess who was the
soldier who cut caper in this story?
There were hundreds of American
soldiers in camp in a little village
called Ecurie. 80 miles northeast of
Verdun. That town had been held
by the Germans for four years--all
through the war-and no French
y were there except very old folks,
gtandfathers and grandmothers. Oh.