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._ ___(~j~;,_.___2. v H E R E V E Ii iihé . Ti 'K "gig story of the Christ

Ghild is told the

5 fl great vorps of “T workers inspired

by the Christ‘n1ns` ,j//:lf 7 , I spirit devises, in- _li-;Tj,_£"»‘~_ ,_A rents and labors

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.,,.T_,»;,_u months to carry , '~ 'fjf out the orders that

A Santa (llaus de-

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_` __ ,_ finished for the ' " cheering and enter-

taining of the world on the twenty~ fifth of December.

Among these are some who Cfltch fill

spirit of the time better than others, who have the peculiar skill to, express their understanding in quaint or lovely objects suitable for gifts at Yuletidr.

One nf these members of Santa Clans' intimate council is Kaetlin Kruse. To” her one evening. wilou sho bud putflier i-hiltl to hed, <-:imc thi- inspiration to mu.ke, a human faced doll.

'l`he doll was rather crude at first.

lt had, lmwevvr, what Knethe-Mother doomed tho essentials nf it humanlike doll, 11 wdbhly henfi ilud loose, limp limbs. lt was only a potato head! wrapped in a towel, tho four oorners pulled ont' for logs und arms, and ui burnt matrix pointed fact-. but Kaetize- Mother worked over her humuu faced’ doll until sho evolved the sweet creature , now familiar to lovors of dolls. it is made. over .1 east of a famous Italian hmby head known as the Finmiuingn

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was a little girl with snapping blacks Suddenly she fountl ii tiny Kcwpif- infslike the parchesi board. Inqtead of eyes and s message of cheetin her heart. the palm of her hand. It ff-lt cool ti- the wnnileu figures there were the required She was lame and_haL‘. to be wheeled touch. yet soft liken bird. :ind it seemed number of slave girls. Tlnmc were about by her brothers and sisters. but comfortable, for it jiggltxl with its fem. moved about the eourtyahi UB N10 her heart was full of love. One Christ- looking at her .sideways und 1-liuclcliug. |uove.s the little "men" uronpd the board, mal she sat making a little elephnnt of In her words: - the olijwt be-ing. of eoursee to win the ‘ white felt, with red and white layers "Thu Ke-.vpiu wigllts stay up ut nights. beautiful slave girls away' from each

of _felt to stand upon, between which All guyly singing rumt_\' tum; ulhvr. '

were tucked pins and needles and other Like puddings, they nm pleasiuit sights, Our# in Chicnlio -1 wfmrvm artist was useful things. A tiny, pale blue satin Well rounded at the tninty tum." ' very blue. in desperstionf she made 'a

saddle cloth with initials em-broidered '.l‘hey turned somersuults, pluyod leap- 1 sort of infant Buddha. She called him in white npon it 'lay over .Tumbds bark. frog. snapped the whip, slid about. tucked "tim god of things as they ought to be' The nngne of the lame girl was Mar- each other in little hollows of thi- bed und put. him upon herm:1ntel“foriuq7r."

garete Steiff. and she sat sewing deftly <-over. oxumiuvd tin-, books ut thc side of Ho brought her luck, for he was Da

before the old falhioned open fireplace her hed and sat in it row ou the foot. widely known Billikln ntahlette that ._ so that her gift might he ready for her hoard smiling nl. her, Uni- mite stood :unused the world, and the Gmal: 'l‘oy._',,` mother that evening when the big tree guard at the head of the bed. a x~;oldie~r's

eap upon his top knot, u gun in his tiny

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Santa. on his roluidl, must have seen

Mugamte as “hc “.113 finishing the Rose 0'.\'eill awoke the next morning elephnnt with "nl ivory ,wks and dp filled with thoughts nf thorn. lho little

sided that she ‘Nm the very perm" m 4 f‘Ynricl~ts." :ts :_-ibn #ails them. sneniwi so hem him_ lunoeent and kind; they soc-mwl to teach

right hund. Tiiere wus n host nf them.

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of an tha my workws in _hp world r~i~son_n um1nni_\ noi-xiim im gmt

sonse without oven knowing they had u

Mammal” Steiff is pprhaps 'hp mmf, "mission," Sho hr-gnu iuukiug \'or.'~‘es aebvc. She thinks nnrl works nn|l'al_omth" , ,ir - I,

works and thinks all her days. over evolving fresh delights for the children. She went on making the beautiful ele

h _ __ ____ __ H1 ' Miss O`.‘\`oill got hor niessuge from Santa

m.inr < nwing rom.

tihildrou :\\'ery'vvlir-rv out out Kewpies

und plny:-il drelight|»di_\' with them. So

D an S or "W "°' t 9" " M' Rnimalm i Clnus tn make Kr-wpiv 'paper dolls :ind and R” “ani” r')"h 'hr' gnu]-V mth his send them oul, iiroadrnst into the world.

deep grunt. tha- tnoukey. tho camel, the

Then sho luodeliml the fbrtlis of hor

lion :ind tho_'1‘eddy Brnr. flloddy 3_0!" pets in clay. travelling to tho land whore wns hr-r bright pnrticulav inspiration. I ,wrybmiy iovps ,lmnnkp tn_,.__,_ ,md ,|,,,_

The popularity of this animnl brought prosperity and fame to the obscure, quaint old town where Mnrgarele Steiff dwelt. Her great factories house the mnsl' thriving industry nf the place. and

nearly every cottage for miles around_ }{M,,‘Jm.d,_,, hm] ,,,,. Baby |I:,,,pif“,l

contains one or more toymaksr. More

head. an art treasure handed down from i um Mime Am. mn being .-ov.-rea with cnnvns and hand painted. 'l‘ho body is ~ n copy of the chubby form of Knethe r

Krueds own little child. Tim dollim are l named, some of the prettiest having the | flames of Mother Kaethe‘a babies, as; .lockerle and Himnerle and Michel. ' They are not like “store dolls." for the

littln vhiid who first desired them had never ziekerl for ri “doll"; she distinctly said ii “Christ Child.” Her artist. father had :i great deal to do with tho, in- spiration. too. because lic insisbed that tho Christ Child must be mother-mnde to satisfy the iongings of the little inother heart. i

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#ussing the making of Kwwpio dolls with grave mon. She amid that sho wnntoli them made perfectly: cspf:1'irllly lhf' lim' eheup ones that would lic likely to go in poor 4-hiitlren.

pat the ,ugly lirnui-li on th liond und

Mun came and got: him. A cle-ver man of our own country, who had spent his Iifo in making' toys for children found a poor old mln' from the land of the Bear

wlin had invented an unbreakable ma~ , , ri,

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terial for the mating of dolls and he

promptly mrquired it, building up a won- i -"l 1

dorful doll imhistry hero. Whse it was

_~tlmught it i-ouldn'l he done.

R4-t\vr»cn hor love for her children

and that of her work of toy modelling " ' ‘ .\fir.=. Ht-len Fox '1‘rrN'bridg0 Bcartely 'f'//"ff

knows which mziki-s her happiest. It is such n vongeninl work that even the

mon 'who travel for thly Very Smart \

Man :ire oaught. in tlw cotingion of good f~lio<>r. Sho thinks the work as enter- tninins: to grownups ns the dolls to the vhilclrou, and sim is n strong advoeato of sprwiulized home industries for women.

making of inodels for mart- lifvtiike dolls was but a short step, .-is the picture of

Mrs. ’l"rowhridgn first specialized in child pnt'tr.1itnr<-. From that to the

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"B:ih_v-suck-n-th|.rmb" shows. She and

thf- clever man are matting their heads

than three thousand different kinds of | mogmithim mi 1,, had |,, s,,,g|,._ fphpn 1 ,Ug,,,_hc,._ ,.°m_in“nuy` trying . gnc, my* h""` °°m“ fmm M"W¥3\`0f~@'5 fm” he indéiied :ind l'inull;»' lm tlisn.ppr-nrt-ei

tories. She gets up nearly all the marvel-

the great shops near Christmas time. In Ohicngo, for instance. this year ia

fi hotter rind more :Artistic doll It n low

_ _ and left ri thistle in his plni-r-. 'Fliore prim-. ’l‘hc dolls’ heads are of an un-

1°”‘°YW1nd°Wdi5P|l~Y“th“t"‘*5°¢"in 'ni"e‘°"1‘oon_v, VV(-1-ny :ind Qur»f-u_y llnppi- hroskablo vfriveiy material. almost as

fat. Queeny \v1-urs it rr»s»- wr:-ntli.

soft ns the skin of n child. 'Due features

Weeny is sporty :ind :uhh-tit-_ wearing' urn painted bv hand one man putting

bfi' 11089 N085" AHC- f TIHVP 85911 fl .1 sweater with n big ll on it. Teeny on nothing but; eyeiirowa, another the Eirvrna, _:ith ¢Il;w11S. fN¥P¢l0 P¢l‘f0lll§¢!'l- in the leader, tho bminy_om~._ the thinker. 5 lashes, :mother the eyes, and anotha- the

“BUY 1'* 95”' °"n”=f°*f "f U10 wiht, He wears nu Earl) Victorian costume white spot.; which form the high lights -:""*- `-3:`7`§

Dilflplle-F0855 Hillwlf W9 li". 707360 and |. cap with it tussel of the eyes The bent worker of all at

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by elect-uuty with fn\K'lIlN-ill! l’88\!‘|fl§ Santa Claus bus had “September on the rosy rbceks with an atomizer. ! ~i!‘-`~i}` `

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fl f‘°‘\f|Jf.V fl-i\’» Wil” ¢l1'l’°\W1liH and bi! Mom" made up into cunning dollies. The clothes are made carefully, that swinss filled with doll children movéd mill- Guam.. Kiddie it .-i .muy um they may mnfi many .ii-essmgs and un-

met-rily to the organ,.-'t§tat,_,ri dolly organ-

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sl-i|_=i=§‘r *wird alpihlpdllrz wi1ere'n’¢fi¥‘ or new .ne room.. fzimmmr uoiuns Mre.'1‘rowuridg¢i»m.¢kn>gnewmou¢n -°; , 3 ' man doll IYIIIIB ililillmfi lifhllil' imitate or caricature every human at-_` for dolly :ill the time, sometime; even

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ZNISIIIC ‘Ill lf'l'¢°K\'|i1 “Bd WNY °U|*1‘ dailies come from the hem-t of the dark nationalities to copy. Her greatett joy *mlm Wch 35 8" “Nfl 31- 0 TG" mlm” ` foltst. They are cute-eye dolliea, dnl- is in catching the wimuome whinxsiealities fsif “V *W C°“*7 193mg' I B3” *'59 ‘B Hts thlt more their tongues, some that of children. To South America go dork enormous at0fB M1800 \`»\\l’“°d ini” T53* .live mal eyebrows inserted from the skinned dolls, to Japn s beautiful Japa- llllil ‘Vial 01"! N50! in *md 0"! °f buck so that hairy hands Cannot pull nose model. Every cotmtry likes. to see eaves. dolls <'l10m~‘filtg *mtl ill 11 f°! Dian out, some have “pearl” teeth made in: own typeepiwrtrayed. ,

f0N!f».b€ll'8 WBKIUZ Clifil' <`-|\1m3!» \l&|il of gina, some mohair wigs made from `

and livns movies. Angina not skin.

One day an artist named Rose O'Neill

Magic lanterns have new grdwn tai

dreamed it dream of 5 Kewpies. She lmoliix picture shows for the home, and thought shewaaawake, but. was notqnite the doll houses have developed a hun-

suro. She seemed topeep half frightened f drod stylus of architecture. over the coverlet nt n merry. innocently; The old game olf parehéi has a pie- minchiovous, scampering horde of round. 1 tlrreaque origin. Long ago, in the lund pink, baby Kefwpu, with wide. rolling! of perpetual sun. the kings and princes eyes, sweetly impish smile. and above all. used to invite each other to one another`s u top knot. Rose 0'Neill says they pgiuces to play the game of purehesl

seemed to be “young. toddliug muains of which had a wonderful vogue nmong

that. earlier illustrious family of Brown- them, 'Phe <-out-fyarii was mm-ken off

308" Kill! Mr- U0! |005 “80 tirvlwfi f° fi" | with different colored 'tiles into sections I

joy of countless children and grown-ups. Sho smarts, however, that n Kewpie met-ting A Brownie face tn face would he quite overmme with respert.

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