The Oregon daily journal., July 29, 1906, SECTION THREE, Image 36

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. . -s-, : r l ' :', . y r dominating .
; C J r -national 'idea -it' A
vs t -vy v : 'ied in such toys.
A 'American ; yittle'ones frequently play
-with miniature effigies of Uncle Sam -an ,
idea of patriotism is- there: In Chtna',
; figures:ofiandarinSf:godsrand great ,
generals art popular ;.the Jipanese child r
' likes the little geisha girl or a fisherman;
. r.lrmmt art omtnon tturseri adiuuctt ,
' i Trance, ' monks and buU-pghtertA in
Jpain. it'll '-J '.-: y :i 'v
JolhJhatareminiaturej:epr
r ths Deotle themselves are seen in tha -
r more, modest and poorer homesyin Uttlt
shops remote from tne oeaien vaini oj
travel: Those: coming from the great
UrnU factories of the world are much
the same In general type, whether found
tH America, inai w '"'7 ' , .
South Seas. ;. : A:
I' plaything of men at well aa'of chil-'.
V dren.- Tina has been the case fo hun- -
7rz-, dred8,nperhapa tnousanaa, rex eaw.
' They are used, for the most part, at otiieet
. .ltHnnirh MmM are viayea wiiawwu
cagvpg h" J ... 1
lao. x or that reason enumvu vuy
mitted to bare tHem at certain inno. m .
jire not allowed to beat them abont and break
little ones cenerally do.
1 Various, classes .that live in the different
- provinces. are represented by dolla of today;-
'the -prabaser Tnay select almost any
' from -the Empress to the commonest cooho j
of Canton. " r v
. nr. j V.m nanev doll that la
like, that ot any oxner uu. v.
one of the nativa onermg
A curious , mission :'
' is assigned to a Chi- (.
nese doll that has de- .
scended from the dark -agee.
It is a straw
fetish figure , wrapped
in an old raj. ' .
, When a child ,be-
comes sick one of
;. these , straw dolla is '
hnnr over the door of
- the sick room, the idea
1 being . . that the " evil 1
spirits that caused the
' illness will leave the '
child and enter the -
dolL .
' ; If the child grows
i , better, its. relatives im-
agine that the evil
spirits have taken up
their abode in the doll;
then all the grown peo-
le gather about and
at the little straw
fl g u r e Industriously,
after which it is cast
into the street 1 "
1 Japanese dolla can
scarcely be regarded .
as playthings. As a
rule they are beauti-
ful little images rep-;
resenting different sta- ,
tions in life the
statesman, .-thashop-
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'keeriCT. be tisha girl,' the fisherman, the
jinrickisha -runner, etc ; ' -;, w -
rf Onoevery year,'t the-Festival of Dolls, ,
a time 'of "merrymaking devoted exclusively "
. to . girls,they' are . brought ' from . their : rest .-'
iug places and, exhibited.--: ."v '
That dolls had a. place in the homes of the
' ancients jis evidenced by; the. fact that they -
' hare been found. in Egyptian mummy ool-
lections. The rope and bead doll pictured on
tliis age is believed to be more than twenty '
"'four centuries pld,"v,' '... 5, "1." ? .'' ';
. Dolls bf the American .Indiana. reflect to.
' some , extent tribal - characteristics. - Amo:
the Pueblos little clay figures hare been f on
of such age-that they Inay have' come from
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the. cliff dwellers of old.
. The Iroquois make dolls of corn husks and
clothe' them inatly decorated garments, with '
flat caps, and bushy hair.-Other Indian tribes
' construct these playthings, of leather,, jack-'
rabb4-akins or other material that is. avail -i'
able upon the plains. ; i ;A ;
7 In', the Scottish Highlands one may find -
sturdy-looking little lads in cap and kilts
of the national tweed looking like cute little ')
miniatures of the heroes of Scott's tales.
: Children in "Alaska "play with T grotesque t
' figures carved from wood and painted in a .
kind of tattoo fashion somewhat resembling
"the rude images on the, totem poles. On the "
other side of the world, in India, carved '
, dolla are' also much used; as a general thing .
( they are' rudely constructed, apparently , in '
general semblance to some of the many gods '
of that eountry. ' 4 r
Most of the Bussian dolls in the rural 'dis
- tricta representpeasanta the type most-fa-'.miliar
there. The little chap in the'eolleo--l
tion that hails from the steppes is apparently ''
-well fortified ajrainst the niercintf , wintor
iwinda that sweep across those Ttst plains f hs 7
r1iaia' Miviyl elt Bv f -
. trimmed with fur, as is his peaked cap. 1 - -'
' The demure little Swedish peasant rirL',
-too, is in the typical costume of her land.
In Martinique one may find leather dolla ;
sturdy enough to withstand all aorta cf hard
'knocks. ...'.. .:.:. ;::,, 4.,
; Italian, Trench and Spanish children fre--;,quently
find something of reverence for re-'
religion taught by their dolls. One may be av
i miniature Sister of. Charity, ; another a ?
sombre-clad nun; still another a crusader of
' the middle agee.-:'--" .vj
The little ones of Italy are fond of acting
out stories in their childish pastimes, t.
..- Dolls for the entire - .r--
world are now made -'
by Germany and"
'' France.' In general de'
sign, output from the1
same factory may be1
' found on every cotti
' nent, but each, country '
generally dresses its
own consignment in
its own national garb.
' Down in; unsettled,
'revolutionary fTfayti,
. the little J black cbil
' dren, most of whom
run about clad only in
nature's garb, have odd
.'; looking rag dolls, fea ,
tureless . and .; almost
shapeless, yet ' . with ;
bunches of black hair
upon the end supposed
to be the head. '
- Eskimo - little ones -:
take great delight - in
, the wooden dolla carv
ed for them by their
Sarents. . They ; are
ressed exactly - like
. the grown-ups . ana
even have boots made
of reindeer hide ;
Home-made rag dolls
- are also quite-common
in the United States.
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