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Japan (Japan) (search for this): chapter 52
inded me of that of another mother whose eight children are now practically grown up, and whose early training was much the same. She too had little to do with children in her youth ; but her only sister once said to me, I always knew thatwould be a good mother. When we had paper dolls, she always knew just where each one was, and what clothes it needed. She manages her children just as she did her paper dolls. How curious is this world of dolls!-uncouth and savage in Alaska, quaint in Japan, strong and solidly built in Germany, graceful in Paris. You can tell German dolls from French, it is said, by the greater clumsiness of the extremities; no matter how pretty the face, the feet and ankles are those of a peasant. In both countries, I believe, artificers visit the rural villages to study new faces for their dolls, as in ancient Greece the sculptors travelled about the country looking for beautiful forms. Everywhere the doll is to the child the symbol of humanity — the firs
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 52
are now practically grown up, and whose early training was much the same. She too had little to do with children in her youth ; but her only sister once said to me, I always knew thatwould be a good mother. When we had paper dolls, she always knew just where each one was, and what clothes it needed. She manages her children just as she did her paper dolls. How curious is this world of dolls!-uncouth and savage in Alaska, quaint in Japan, strong and solidly built in Germany, graceful in Paris. You can tell German dolls from French, it is said, by the greater clumsiness of the extremities; no matter how pretty the face, the feet and ankles are those of a peasant. In both countries, I believe, artificers visit the rural villages to study new faces for their dolls, as in ancient Greece the sculptors travelled about the country looking for beautiful forms. Everywhere the doll is to the child the symbol of humanity — the first object of responsibility, the type of what is lovable,
St. Peter (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 52
er. She used to cry to come to me, but I knew it wouldn't be good for her. To a child thus imaginative and thus faithful this was an absolute rehearsal of motherhood. When Christmas came, it appears from the diary that baby hung up her stocking with the rest. She had a slate with a real pencil, a travelling shawl with a strap, and a cap with ruffles. I found baby with the cap on early in the morning, and she was so pleased that she almost jumped out of my arms. At the Colosseum, at St. Peter's, baby was of the party. I used to take her to hear the band, in the carriage, and she went everywhere I did. This tenderest of parents was, of course, a girl; yet boys take their share of it, in a more robust and intermittent way, and will sometimes carry the doll to bed or to breakfast as eagerly as gills. The love of dolls with both sexes is a variable thing, perhaps delayed unaccountably or interrupted by long intervals of indifference. At any rate, it is the rehearsing of the mos
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 52
r launched into the world outside. In this room everything is provided by wholesale-whole freight-trains of toy-wagons, wooden horses enough for all to ride at once, and four hundred blocks for purposes of architecture. Here the six play perpetually together while they are in-doors; and when peace is interrupted by discord, and there is a momentary tendency among the younger members to pull each other's hair-hair, it must be said, so curly that it seems almost a waste of the blessings of Providence not to pull it occasionally-the tranquil mother, wisely remembering that most of the ill-temper of children comes from the stomach, sends the little things down-stairs for a glass of Mellin's Food, and they come back beaming and reconciled. Yet this pattern mother, conducting without a nurse this large world of little beings, tells me that she grew up not only without younger brothers and sisters, but without knowledge of young children. Up to the time of her marriage, at twenty-two, sh
Alaska (Alaska, United States) (search for this): chapter 52
Her experience reminded me of that of another mother whose eight children are now practically grown up, and whose early training was much the same. She too had little to do with children in her youth ; but her only sister once said to me, I always knew thatwould be a good mother. When we had paper dolls, she always knew just where each one was, and what clothes it needed. She manages her children just as she did her paper dolls. How curious is this world of dolls!-uncouth and savage in Alaska, quaint in Japan, strong and solidly built in Germany, graceful in Paris. You can tell German dolls from French, it is said, by the greater clumsiness of the extremities; no matter how pretty the face, the feet and ankles are those of a peasant. In both countries, I believe, artificers visit the rural villages to study new faces for their dolls, as in ancient Greece the sculptors travelled about the country looking for beautiful forms. Everywhere the doll is to the child the symbol of hu
Hans Andersen (search for this): chapter 52
put to bed before their mistress went; and all their clothes were neatly folded and put away separately. During the day, doubtless, each doll had its own career and position; was fed at table, fitted with new clothes, elevated into grandeur or repressed into humbleness. When their young mistress grew up they were doubtless laid aside, or transferred to other children, or banished to that dusty purgatory of the garret from which no doll is ever translated to paradise. I forget whether Hans Andersen has ever duly chronicled the tragedy that lies at the end of every doll's life; it is worse than that of any other pet. An old horse is often tended, an aged dog is at least shot, but an old doll is left to lie forever on its back in the garret, gazing with one remaining eye on the slowly gathering cobwebs above it. At any rate, the lady I describe was, after an interval of some ten years, reassigned to the duty that had absorbed her in girlhood-only this time the dolls were alive. On
Christmas (search for this): chapter 52
portant events of the pilgrimage were always shared by the doll. When we got to Nice, I was sick. The next morning the doctor came, and he said I had something that was very much like scarlet-fever. Then I had Annie [a sister] take care of baby [the doll], and keep her away, for I was afraid she would get the fever. She used to cry to come to me, but I knew it wouldn't be good for her. To a child thus imaginative and thus faithful this was an absolute rehearsal of motherhood. When Christmas came, it appears from the diary that baby hung up her stocking with the rest. She had a slate with a real pencil, a travelling shawl with a strap, and a cap with ruffles. I found baby with the cap on early in the morning, and she was so pleased that she almost jumped out of my arms. At the Colosseum, at St. Peter's, baby was of the party. I used to take her to hear the band, in the carriage, and she went everywhere I did. This tenderest of parents was, of course, a girl; yet boys take
French (search for this): chapter 52
early training was much the same. She too had little to do with children in her youth ; but her only sister once said to me, I always knew thatwould be a good mother. When we had paper dolls, she always knew just where each one was, and what clothes it needed. She manages her children just as she did her paper dolls. How curious is this world of dolls!-uncouth and savage in Alaska, quaint in Japan, strong and solidly built in Germany, graceful in Paris. You can tell German dolls from French, it is said, by the greater clumsiness of the extremities; no matter how pretty the face, the feet and ankles are those of a peasant. In both countries, I believe, artificers visit the rural villages to study new faces for their dolls, as in ancient Greece the sculptors travelled about the country looking for beautiful forms. Everywhere the doll is to the child the symbol of humanity — the first object of responsibility, the type of what is lovable, the model on which the dawning parental