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The Fashion-Doll Cut-Outs  By Nandor Honti  Above is a fashionable paper doll from 1925, two party dresses and a robin's egg blue cape.        Cut out each piece, carefully following the outlines. Fold on dotted lines. Paste the matching numbers together beginning by pasting 1 to 1 and son on till all the numbers are used. Hold the pasted places together until the paste hardens enough to hold, so they will not slip apart.

Raggedy Ann And The Painter        When housecleaning time came around, Mistress' mamma decided that she would have the nursery repainted and new paper put upon the walls. That was why all the dolls happened to be laid helter-skelter upon one of the high shelves.        Mistress had been in to look at them and wished to put them to bed, but as the painters were coming again in the early morning, Mamma thought it best that their beds be piled in the closet.        So the dolls' beds were piled into the closet, one on top of another and the dolls were placed upon the high shelf.        When all was quiet that night, Raggedy Ann who was on the bottom of the pile of dolls spoke softly and asked the others if they would mind moving along the shelf.        "The cotton in my body is getting mashed as flat as a pancake!" said Raggedy Ann. And alt...

Raggedy Ann And The Strange Dolls        Raggedy Ann lay just as Marcella had dropped her - all sprawled out with her rag arms and legs twisted in ungraceful attitudes.        Her yarn hair was twisted and lay partly over her face, hiding one of her shoe-button eyes.        Raggedy gave no sign that she had heard, but lay there smiling at the ceiling.        Perhaps Raggedy Ann knew that what the new dolls said was true.        But sometimes the truth may hurt and this may have been the reason Raggedy Ann lay there so still. Color the strangers who, at first, made fun of dear old Raggedy's looks.        "Did you ever see such an ungainly creature!"        "I do believe it has shoe buttons for eyes!"        "And yarn hair!"     ...

James Sully, an English psychologist, minister and professor of philosophy and logic.        James Sully was an English psychologist. He was born at Bridgwater, Somerset the son of J.W. Sully, a liberal Baptist merchant and ship-owner. He was educated at the Independent College, Taunton, Regent's Park College, University of Göttingen, where he studied under Lotze, and at Humboldt University, Berlin where he studied under DuBois-Reymond and Helmholtz.        Sully was originally destined for the nonconformist ministry and in 1869 became classical tutor at the Baptist College, Pontypool. In 1871, however, he adopted a literary and philosophic career. Between 1892 and 1903, he was Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, where he was succeeded by Carveth Read.        An adherent of the associationist his school of psychology, his views had great affinity with t...

Raggedy Ann's New Sisters        Marcella was having a tea party up in the nursery when Daddy called to her, so she left the dollies sitting around the tiny table and ran down stairs carrying Raggedy Ann with her.        Mama, Daddy and a strange man were talking in the living room and Daddy introduced Marcella to the stranger.        The stranger was a large man with kindly eyes and a cheery smile, as pleasant as Raggedy Ann's. The Ocean Fairies and Freddy        He took Marcella upon his knee and ran his fingers through her curls as he talked to Daddy and Mamma, so, of course, Raggedy Ann liked him from the beginning. "I have two little girls," he told Marcella. "Their names are Virginia and Doris, and one time when we were at the sea-shore they were playing in the sand and they covered up Freddy, Doris' boy-doll in the sand. They were playing that Freddy was in bat...

Raggedy Ann And The Kite        Raggedy Ann watched with interest the preparations.        A number of sticks were being fastened together with strings and covered with light cloth.        Raggedy Ann heard some of the boys talk of "The Kite," so Raggedy Ann knew this must be a kite.        When a tail had been fastened to the kite and a large ball of heavy twine tied to the front, one of the boys held the kite up in the air and another boy walked off, unwinding the ball of twine.        There was a nice breeze blowing, so the boy with the twine called, "Let 'er go" and started running.        Marcella held Raggedy up so that she could watch the kite sail through the air.        How nicely it climbed! But suddenly the kite acted strangely, and as all the children shouted advice t...

A Rich Keystone Dollhouse with gypsum hardboard walls.  There are six rooms but it came with none of it's original furnishings.        I found a gem today at resale. This Rich Toys, printed particleboard Tudor, I believe from 1938. I paid $9.99! The house will need very careful cleaning and a great deal of research put into it's period furnishings. A wonderful collection of more Rich Toy Dollhouses here    Some history behind the Rich dollhouses The rooms look lonely and dark. These cry out for a little girl's affection I think. Here you can see where time has taken it toll on the particleboard edges. The printed checkerboard floors and carpets were once a bright Kelly green. The color is still brilliant on the outside of the doll's house. Brilliant evergreens, ivies, tulips and window  boxes cheerfully decorate this popular period doll house. The wooden trim and steps are still intact. The doorway is flanked by red vases and narrow  casemen...

Raggedy Ann And The Kittens        Raggedy Ann had been away all day.        Marcella had come early in the morning and dressed all the dolls and placed them about the nursery.        Some of the dolls had been put in the little red chairs around the little doll table. There was nothing to eat upon the table except a turkey, a fried egg and an apple, all made of plaster of paris and painted in natural colors. The little teapot and other doll dishes were empty, but Marcella had told them to enjoy their dinner while she was away.        The French dolly had been given a seat upon the doll sofa and Uncle Clem had been placed at the piano.        Marcella picked up Raggedy Ann and carried her out of the nursery when she left, telling the dolls to "be real good children, while Mamma is away!"        When the door c...

  Raggedy Ann And The Fairies' Gift        All the dolls were tucked snugly in their little doll-beds for the night and the large house was very still.        Every once in a while Fido would raise one ear and partly open one eye, for his keen dog sense seemed to tell him that something was about to happen. Fido wakes Raggedy Ann        Finally he opened both eyes, sniffed into the air and, getting out of his basket and shaking himself, he trotted across the nursery to Raggedy Ann's bed.        Fido put his cold nose in Raggedy Ann's neck. She raised her head from the little pillow.        "Oh! It's you, Fido!" said Raggedy Ann. "I dreamed the tin soldier put an icicle down my neck!"        "I can't sleep," Fido told Raggedy Ann. "I feel that something is about to happen!"      ...

  Raggedy Ann And The Chickens        When Marcella was called into the house she left Raggedy sitting on the chicken yard fence. "Now you sit quietly and do not stir," Marcella told Raggedy Ann, "If you move you may fall and hurt yourself!"        So, Raggedy Ann sat quietly, just as Marcella told her, but she smiled at the chickens for she had fallen time and again and it had never hurt her in the least. She was stuffed with nice soft cotton, you see.        So, there she sat until a tiny little humming-bird, in search of flower honey hummed close to Raggedy Ann's head and hovered near the tall Hollyhocks.        Raggedy Ann turned her rag head to see the humming-bird and lost her balance - plump! she went, down amongst the chickens.        The chickens scattered in all directions, all except Old Ironsides, the rooster.   ...