DOLLS OF YESTERDAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

DOLLS OF YESTERDAY.

When you are playing with your doll do yon over wonder who was the first doll? Some dolls can trace their ancestors back 4000 years! In the British Museum in London there are two little Egyptian lady dolls made of wood and as brightly coloured as they were first painted 4000 years ago!

There arc dolls of Greece and Some there, too. looking more like ancient goddesses than dolls to play with.

I wonder what happened to one little doll at the British Museum. She is a sad little 'doll, still wearing a blue bead on the side of her battered head. Some little girl used to play with her 1700 years ago!

There was a little girl culled by a terrible name — Crepereia Tryphania — who had a wooden doll. Wnen Crepereia died, her doll was buried with her, and some time ago, thousands of years after Crepercia died, the doll was found beside her in her tomb, looking quite well-oared for.

Mohammedan children have dolls of white cotton and black silk, but they have no faces, because little Mohammedans mustn't have any graven images. Chinese dolls are all beautiful. In the London Museum there is another doll with a figure like a wooden bottle with a rounded cork in it. It is a doll that was found in a famous London lane, and was made in 1000. In the Stuart times there were beautiful wax dolls, and in the Georgian times wooden dolls were popular, with black almond eyes, sloping shoulders and dressed in flowing brocades.

It was. not until 1850 that the china doll was born in the nursery, dressed with clumsy skirts and pantelettes.

You all know what dolls are like tnday—somn of them look very like i>,,, dt/n't thev?

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