Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — Uses Bottle polls In Lecture [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Uses Bottle polls In Lecture

“They Take the Place of Real People,” Says Mrs. ? Paulsen, Who Appears at the Chautauqua

THE following story concerning the work of Mrs. Paulsen, who will lecture £er£ the las Of the Chautauqua, was published in the Ly. ceum Magazine last November; . . •‘On the stagq beside Hd?n B. labisen when she lectures stands a table JQVered with rows Of Solis about six inches high. Each doll is differently costumed, some in light and some in dark. There are little higher shelves bearing more dolls, so that the table is a pyramid of scores of dolls, “You are v£?v attentive to the lecture, and it is worth your attention. Even the wiggliest children of the wiggliest Chautauqua front row are attentive. All of us are waiting and watching for Helen B. to get over to the dolls. “Then she takes them "one by*one and shows they are characters in Mother Goose. One is Prince Charming, one is Bo Beep. one is Jack the Pipers Son, one is King Cole, and so on. Each typifies a Certain kind of child life. As she explains them she bolds the same-close'attention. “It is a fine way to make a lecture interesting. We have been wonderingWhy Otbej lectures Muid pot be illustrated with things without infringing upon lifS. Kulsen : s copyright. , 0 “The ‘bottle dolls’ wereAvorked out by Mrs. Paulsen along the ideas of a woman she Wil's us Is very wonderful-Mrs. Lowe-of Salina, Kan.-so wonderful is' she that Dr. Forbush, the boy specialist, has written two books .about her work. “ ‘They take the place of real people.’ says Mrs. I aulsen. I use them instead of people because some things I say would not be very flattering to people and would hurt their pride. -But my dolls do not-care.

HELEN B. PAULSEN AND HER DOLLS.