Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1912 — Who Made the First Doll? [ARTICLE]

Who Made the First Doll?

History fails to tell the inventor of the doll, which has been such a boon to mankind, not only in quieting the rowdy youngster, but in stimulating a healthy .imagination and affection. Five hundred years before Christ little girls had dolls; there is sure evidence of it, and Edward Lovett, an enthusiastic collector, has a doll from, those dim ages. It is little more than a battered stick now, but is unmistakably a doll. No one could name a fair value for such a pjixe, which stands out as a proof that the child of today is singularly like her little sister of some 2,500 years ago.