DOLLS 



1834 



DOLOMITE 



Now comes the pretty part. The little dress 

 can be trimmed in a number of ways. In 

 Fig. 8 a white collar has been cut from paper 

 and pasted in place. White strips of paper 

 have been cut for bands, and pasted to the . 

 bottom of the dress and sleeves. Charming lit- 

 tle shoe shapes were cut from black paper, 

 and sock shapes from white paper. These 

 shapes were pasted over the feet and legs of 

 the doll. Dolly can change her dress, but she 

 must always wear the same shoes and socks. 

 A ribbon hair-bow and necktie add the finish- 

 ing touches to this charming costume. 



Five more ways of cutting and of trimming 

 dresses for paper dolls are shown in Figs. 9, 

 10, 11, 12 and 13. 



No paper doll family is complete without 

 some boys. Their costumes are of more sober 

 colors than the costumes of girls, but the styles 

 and shapes are interesting to cut. A sailor 

 costume for a boy can be cut from dark blue 

 and white papers. 



Fig. 14 shows a boy doll cut from cream-col- 

 ored paper. The process of cutting out this 

 shape is the same as is shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 

 3. Figs. 15 and 16 show the blouse and trous- 

 ers cut from dark blue paper. A white collar 

 and a black tie, both cut from paper, have been 

 added to Fig. 15. The cap is shown in Fig. 17. 

 The Sailor Boy cannot change his costume, 

 because the clothes must be pasted to the fig- 

 ure. It would be interesting to cut a number 

 of boy dolls and dress them in different cos- 

 tumes. Figs. 18, 19 and 20 show three differ- 

 ent costumes that can be cut and pasted on 

 three different boy dolls. 



Paper dolls may be dressed in the costumes 

 of other nations. Is it not strange that we 

 can represent, by means of cut papers, shoes, 

 hats, caps, dresses, parasols, sashes, neckties 

 and everything that is worn? If the shapes 

 are true and the colors harmonious, these cos- 

 tumes will be as beautiful as painted designs. 



Fig. 21 shows a boy doll dressed in a Scotch 

 costume. The kilt skirt and the sash are cut 

 from plaid paper. You can make your own 

 plaid by drawing lines, carefully spaced, on 

 green, gray or blue paper, with colored cray- 

 ons. Use a ruler, and see that the points of 

 the crayons are sharp. Cover a sheet of 

 6" x 9" paper with the plaid design, and then 

 cut from the sheet the shapes of kilt and sash, 

 and the band for the cap. The stockings could 

 be cut from ' gray paper, with dark red lines 

 drawn afterward upon the shapes, to look like 

 "cross gartering." 



The Dutch Boy (Fig. 22) is easy to dress. 

 His wide trousers, his quaint cap and his 

 wooden shoes can all be cut from the colors 

 that are printed on the drawing. All of these 

 shapes should be cut from folded papers, so 

 both sides of the shapes will be exactly alike. 



The little Chinese lady, with her kimona 

 and parasol, makes a most attractive doll. Her 

 black hair can be cut from black paper, her 

 kimona from violet tissue that looks like silk, 

 and her parasol from green paper, with small 

 pieces of red paper used for a decorative pat- 

 tern. 



Fig. 24 shows a Spanish boy, arrayed in the 

 splendor of black velvet and gorgeous color. 

 Cut the trousers and coat from folded paper, 

 as these shapes are to be alike on both sides. 

 The sash and the ribbon bow on the cap must 

 be cut from single thickness of paper, as they 

 are irregular in shape. After you have made 

 these paper .doll costumes from the sketches, 

 you should invent some costumes of your own 

 or work some paper costumes in colors, from 

 pictures that you find in other books. B.S. 



DOL'OMITE, a rock composed of limestone 

 and a compound of magnesium and carbonic 

 acid. It is sometimes called magnesium lime- 

 stone. The purest varieties, when crystallized, 

 are known as pearl spar; this has crystals with 

 curved surfaces and is of a pearly luster. 

 Dolomite varies in color from yellowish-white 

 to yellowish-brown and gray. It occurs in 

 large masses in Europe, where great mountains 

 in Switzerland, Austria, Italy and England are 

 formed almost wholly of dolomite. In the 

 United States it is found in the New England 

 States, Eastern New York, Georgia and Ten- 

 nessee. Some of the finest statuary marble is 

 dolomite. Another variety, called bitter spar 

 or rhomb spar, is gray, yellow or reddish- 

 brown, and is partially transparent. Dolomite 

 is a good building stone, but the common va- 

 riety does not take a polish. See LIMESTONE; 

 MARBLE. 



The Dolomites, a section of the Alps on the 

 border between the Austrian Tyrol and the 

 Italian province of Venice. Composed of the 

 comparatively soft mineral known as dolomite, 

 these mountains have been carved by the 

 winds and rains and frosts into every sort of 

 fantastic shape. John L. Stoddard has called 

 them "the Alps in ruins" and compared their 

 appearance to "castles, citadels, cathedrals, 

 obelisks, towers, pyramids, chimneys, needles, 

 bayonets, tusks, and other grotesque and dis- 

 torted shapes, to name which all the languages 



