Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1951 — Page 59

"e vin a doll shop. Operator and chief magiclan is Mrs. Mildred Davis. It is in her office-workshop here that bits of paper, yarn, pipe cleaners, cloth and ribbon become tiny, fuzzy animals or gay, life-like : dolls. he “By adding a little velvet, braid, and ingenuity, she converts an empty cellophane tape holder into Cinderella's coach with as much ease as the Fairy Godmother changed the pumpkin. Pictures of characters from the poems of James Whitcomb Riley look down from the walls, Shelves in the workshop-display room are filled with dolls, 360 different kinds, In fact.

Polls Roam Far

Actually Mrs, Davis has made thousands of dolls,” They have been sold and sent all over the United States and to parts of

Far East.

est completely dressed dolls in the world. Her tiniest is a young lass less than a half inch tall,

10 inches.

This Hoosier housewife, who had no previous designing or sewing experience, began making dolls about 11 years ago when fliness confined her to bed. The] i products were “simple and] vet de,” she. confesses. While convalescing she was content to Hake just “dolls.” But just as gon as she was well, Mrs. Davis| began In earnest. Started With Riley Riley dolls were a natural beginning, since Greenfield is the poet's birthplace and is saturated with Riley lore, There were 20 characters in the first group she made, including such favorites as Little Orphan Annie, the hired man, the goblins, and Aunt Mary. Later she added Mother Goose people and after that, historic characters and many fiction immortals, 7 . Mrs. Davis likes to have her dolls “doing something,” so she arranges tiny settings for them, made to scale. Miniature hat stands display tiny hats in a hat shop, or ladies seated on a small

quins, -

making the dolls, including such

Greenfield. It’s exactly where you'd expect to find it, too,’

Furope, South America and the

and girls seem to prefer the Riley|® explained, however: ‘Most every material is used injcharacters, t

standbys as muslin, pipe cleaners, under the trade name of Milly's school at present.” '

THE GOBBLE-UNS ‘LL GIT YOU-—Nine little goblins perched on a fence leer playfully of a

. Whitcomb Riley character doll.

{One doll, an Indian is made from

" She makes some of the small- breakfast cereal, while a series of Students Told {gay animals have eggshell bodies, |

Cotton Faces

| The faces of character dolls while some of the larger “char-|jike Lincoln, Washington and! BY oll 0

acter” ‘dolls measure more than Riley are modeled from wet cot-

ton and cast in a clay model. { Many of the materials she wes Bank to School are given to Mrs. Davis by friends and customers, At spring house-! cleaning time, Mrs. Davis re-| Ya ceives many packages containing| feathers, beads and scraps of ma-| — 3 pi ——— terial, | Fearing that thousands of high Although she makes more than school students will accept jobs| 360 dolls, Mrs. Davis is always during the summer and fail to relooking for new characters, During the summer months, Supt. of Public Instruction Wilbur nearly 100 people visit her dis-| Young last night called on parents play room daily when they come and teachers to urge all youths to to Greenfield to see Riley’s home, [continue until graduation. Gremlin Is Popular | Mr. Young's plea came as near-

Probably her most popular doll ly 700,000 Hoosiér students ended next to the Riley characters is al ation little gremlin. This saucy little! .p. , fellow went to all parts of the] Don't let immediate financial

world during World War II in Bains turn their heads,” he said.

packages sent to servicemen. The A message from Mf, Young will

little gremlin, smiling

(See Harold Hartley's column on Page 43.)

impishly|

chiefs or wedged between cookies a must have been a real surprise Reports that industries were of-

lins became mascots and “good School

luck” charms and are still popu-

graduates and

: She'll Be Fired Mrs, Davis markets her dolls! “It is more patriotic to finish

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$18 to $25 5 Values

Specially Purchased

to sell at only

Stripes. 2 Tones, $10 Polka Dots, $10 Chee s, Plaids, $10

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ootton, yarn and embroidery floss. (Miniatures. | The

situation was sharply {brought to Mr, Young's attention | this week when one of his summer! SHOP MONDAY |employees, a high school junior, : |asked if she could remain with] ALL DAY, 9 to 5:30 the state school lunch division in| ithe fall (school. | Mr, Young told the girl he was {nappy to have her work for him now, but that he will have to fire

“I will not tolerate high school | students working in this office when they should be in school,” he said. | _ Mr. Young emphasized that] school work was essential to boys and girls who intend to “get somewhere” in the future. | He said there is strong competition for the “really good jobs” and “usually the better educated]

men and women get them.”

{ os | Couple Adopt Boy,

‘He Suffocates -~

| DENVER, June 9— Within two" {hours after Mr, and Mrs. Bill R. | | Barlow adopted a baby boy, they | { found him dead of suffocation. | “We, were both crazy about | children,” Mrs. Barlow sald. “We | could hardly believe it when ar- | irangements were finally com- | | pleted so we could get this baby.” | { They had begun their quest for a child to adopt before Mr. 'Barlow entered the Army in World | War II,

Hikers Destroy Weeds ‘Before They're Dope

DENVER, June 9 Colorado, !

treks, By fall, the plants will | have matured and become pros- | pective “reefers,” or narcotic] cigarets, |

| i { Advertisement, |

~ Science Develops a "Wrist-Ear" for the Deafened

What is believed to be the near- | est approach to perfect human] {hearing has finally been achieved with the ald of a tiny electronic] “ear” which is worn on the wrist] {hidden ‘under the sieeve of the ¥ coat, shirt or blouse,

| This tiny “Wrist-Ear,” because | of the way it is wern, eliminates most of ‘the objections the hard of | {hearing have .against conven: {tional hearing devices, You wear {it on your wrist to gain advan-| tages that not even your head | can give you! In this manner you, can hear in all directions, understand everything being said, and 3 it arouses no curiosity because it is.always worn under the sleeve.

| FREE INFORMATION will be sent by writing to F. A. Bowman, Bept. T. 2, 16 No. Delaware 8

jturn to school in the fall, State go

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{be sent to teachers all over the]

trom a bed of socks and handker-|"t2te Via a state-wide publication = jon education, | — Ba.

for many a doughboy. The grem-| Ting good paying jobs i Jen &3 ‘have filtered into the Statehouse: Sh lar. | Many youngsters feel that they! ! The majority of men, however, 2T¢ Part of the nation’s war ef-| davenport drink tea from dishes prefer the Hawaiian doll, while fort When they take a job in a fashioned frony beads and se-|boys like Robin Hood. Women defense industry, Mr. Young said. |

rather than continues

her in the Fall, }

nai supeifipd, 3nd. :

a 3 3 James

‘Maybe It'd Be Safer To Play With Matches

hid it. When he looked for it, nol |cash, | Investigators 8

iSutton’s 4-year-old son, had found

in his pillow case when he went to bed.

Anything But That

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _

dred Davis’ Doll Shop

THE DOLL LADY—Mrs. Mildred Davis, Greenfield, adds a bit of color to the cheeks of a George Washington doll.

Briton Char | HOUSTON, June 9—~J. H. Sut-| ton brought $500, the. day's |] S Attitude No lceipts from his business, home and ** "

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resentatives promptly and gave some token advance payment,

Mr, Shepherd, according to Brit{ish embassy quarters, told Mr.

|Automobiles—

Credit Rules Cramp.

SUNDAY, TUNE-10, 1081

Sales of Used Cars

By The Times Automobile Editor, THE AUTO INDUSTRY has settled down #0 hard selling. ne s It isn’t that people don’t want cars, it's the rough situation created by the larger down payments and the shorter paying period in regulation W. Most new car dealers say they have more orders than cars. But almost everyone, yntii about the middle of Auwill admit that he has to be gust.

One of the important factors in careful about trades on re- driving on a vacation is the concent ‘models.

dition of the tires. It can mean a The reason is used car buyers| .,,, sree, pleasant vacation, or if cannot raise the down payment,

tires are neglected can mean so the dealer has to trade pretty is ouble. closely, ; {

| . ‘How About Tires? Stocks Better Now Any tire dealer can see if your

But the big dealers in town, 0 io 000d that your wheels who really know the score, insist/ aligned and that you have a used car stocks are not in as bad 2116 amount of safety for

a shape as they were a few weeks trip over two or three weeks ago. | three fles SBut they do find that Wyers and two OF thousand mile are trimming on accessories. | Fai Hanley, at the Tire Sales are off considerably, > pM Service Co.) 534 N. Capitol, says gia Junto get > Dew car at the mere is a dispute about the owes. b gure. amount of air that should be car-Hard-Top, Boom Be peer sista JoRZeE WORT: Soft-top convertibles have been| put the Jower the pressure, the Feplaced oid the hardiops In taps more tread touches the rend This most eve . ire wears faster, bu are a little safer if the car rollsiTocans the tire Wea ride. It's a over. But a hard top Which has iter of ‘take your choice’ the

{Grady that American recommend{ations were adversely affecting {future negotiations because if the {Angio-Iranian Oil Co. accepted

-them it would be as an apparent found it. pos F avorahle to ran [result of American pressure and { i

{if the company refused, the Iran-

wee | ft, played with it, and hidden it! TEHERAN, Iran, June 9 (CDN) |ians would see a rift in the Anglo:

CLEVELAND, June 9 Robert | the American attitude here was Spare the Rod . ..

urmeister is not a lucky man.| The car his auto plowed into was| a police car parked in front of a! police station, side, charged with drunken driv+|

to Iran.

| ing. lease if the British sent their rep-|as a ‘last resort.”

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{tending to become too favorable)

CLEVELAND, June 9—The five {members of the Cleveland School

He was soon in-|referring to Mr. Grady's state- their approval of teachers’ admin-/the four corners of the country. ments that the situation would istering paddlings to unruly pupils; {set in until late June. It will then tracts.

la cutback in production. | But some dealers smile. They W-0 Shutdown

{seems to have happened.

Vacations Ahead

| There's one thing sure. That is for jeeps and for other war sup-

{the vacation-minded public is al- plies. And it is not likely Wiliys-

a retail ‘value of $1850, can be... 1130 and the quicker wearrun up to almost $2500 with all in . the better g of your tires; or the bette the gS eusories ang still be One teering and longer wearing tires jot the “low price linea, {with alittle harder ride, and more

| ‘The big companies have to face pressure.

have been listening to the “wolf

cry” ever since the Korean War, With all the luck it has been

\—In private conversation here American front on inwiolability of and so far nothing very serious having, Willys-Overland had to with American Ambassador Henry contracts. Grady, British Ambassador Fran- |Copyright, 1951, for The Indianapolis Times cis Shepherd expressed regret that!

{shut down a few days last week [because of lack of parts, Willys has tremendous contracts

ready beginning to ldok around [Overland plant will run out of

Mr., Shepherd was apparently Board were unanimous today infor cars that will take them to business for the duration.

When they shut down on jeeps, This buying wave is not due to they can work on munitions con-

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