Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — A DOLL SHOEMAKER. [ARTICLE]

A DOLL SHOEMAKER.

Me Rmum Mow For Broken Toes and Missing Arms. Owing to the maternal Instinct In the little girl’s heart, dolls play almost as important a part In modern industry as children themselves. In a large department store in New York City there is the usual dolls’ department, where artistic creations of any and all sorts are displayed. With them are costumes, umbrellas, houses, furniture, and every possible thing required by a young married doll wherewith tq start housekeeping. But this is not all. There Is a doll shoemaker and a doll chiropodist. The former keeps a supply of footwear which will astonish any adult. Her French boots and English walking shoes, Chinese slippers, Japanese sandals, Turkish and Morocco bootines, Indian moccasins, and knitted foot mittens for winter are marvels of ingenuity and beauty, and are warranted to satisfy the most fastidious doll of the aristocracy. The chiropodist Is a skilled professional. Dolls, especially wax ones, have much trouble with their feet, and more especially their toes. In playing, the latter are very apt to be trod upon and converted into flat disks. Small boys, particularly those aged one and a half, have a vicious propensity for biting off a doll’s toe and otherwise displaying ancient cannibalistic habits. The chiropodist reforms toes, and where necessaray replaces them. China dolls are very difficult patients. Wax dolls like the chiropodist, but china dolls have an invincible antipathy towards him. Nevertheless, the latter will cement broken toes and restore the color to the feet of owners who lead too energetic a life. The chiropodist is a person of great tact, and receives her patients with property dignity. Nothing is more delightful than to hear a conversation between her and some young lady, aged five, whose dolly’s feet are out of order. The scene is a miniature of one In the orthopedic hospital. —New York Evening Post.