Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — How Dolls Are Made. [ARTICLE]

How Dolls Are Made.

Many big things are needed to make a small doll. She haa her beginning In a great trough, where workmen knead up Into a dingy paste old cardboard, even old gloves, old rags and tragacantk. They are great brawny 1 fellows, these men, naked to the waist, wearing leathern aprons. In an adjoining room the paste Is potted into molds for the busts, the arms, the legs of dolls Innumerable. There Is a special machine for stamping out the hands. I should not like to confess how long I stood In front of it, fascinated by the steady stream of queer little hands that fell ceaselessly from the Iron monster. It was awful, uncanny, hypnotizing. Indeed, the whole sight was grim and monstrous. The low factory rooms were misty with steam and lit by strange, red glowing fires. Always the great steel machines pulsed and changed, and through the mist sweaty giants of men went to and fro with heaps of little greenish arms and legs until you began to think that some new Herod had killed all the little people In the world. —Everybody’s.