Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1895 — Doctors for Dolls [ARTICLE]

Doctors for Dolls

New York Mail and Express. “Dolls’ Hospital” was the sign that arrested my eyes on an uptown street, and I immediately penetrated the dark, narrow doorway to learn something about the dolls whose ailments necessitated hospital treatment. In this way I discovered a character quite in keeping with Dickens' dolls’ dressmaker—little Miss Wren. A clock maker, in clock cobbler’s outfit, was in front, but in the rear of the dingy little shop I found a small, brown eyed woman who followed the humane business of doctoring the dolls brought to her in every stage of dilapidation. There were dolls without heads, who would probably leave her hands very much wiser looking than ever before —and it set me wishing we could have the choice of fresh heads when the old ones are well worn out with fret and worry. Dolls without legs came to the little brown eyed woman, who makes them over brand new, Dolls with chipped fingers and toes can there take their anguish. It was really a pathetic exposition of the ills dolls are heir to, and the wise doll doctress told me she made a most satisfactory living from her odd calling.

Up in the mountain counties of Kentucky, where a feud is continually on band, and where human blood flows as free as water, a remarkable thing has recently happened, says the Carlisle County News. In one of the neighborhoods where they kill men for the fun there is in it, it is said that within a period of a week there were six sets of triplets born. The population isn’t,.likely to decrease verv much up there, notwithstanding the feuds.

“My friends.” shouted the orator, “the mad rush for the spoils ot office is the bitterest eyesore that is eating into the vitals of the body politic!”

The hew law requiring all enlisted men of the army to be citizens of the United States has begun to workresults in this direction. Many of the soldiers have begun to realize what the new law means, and in anticipation of their reenlistment have taken steps to make themselves eligible, About a half hundred of those stationed at Fortress Monroe, recently, obtained leave of absence and went up to Norfolk, where the Unitea States District Court was in session, and took out their naturalization papers.

“You have been in the army a great many years, but I have not heard of you capturing anything,” said an old Washington coquette to a somewhat venerable officer of the army. “You ought to have a fellow feeling for me,” was the reply. “How so?” “Because we both know what it is to grow old without making any conq ues ts. ” Madras gingham squares are liked for covering pillows that are in constant use, as they can be washed, and even boiled, without changing the colors. The part intended for the center of the squares comes in irregular stripes of dark blue and rose color, in sage apd rose, and in gayer colorings. The covers are made with wide frills.