Identifier: stnicholasserial71dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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alls, marbles, smallfish, and other things.Some of the balls arestuffed with bran orhusks, others are madeof rushes, plaited andcovered with leather,and others of paintedearthenware, probablyonly to look at. The first toy of theancient Greek baby wasa rattle-box, then came—as he grew—dolls ofclay (a sort of coarsechina doll), figures ofanimals, apes, with theirlittle ones, ducks, tor-toises, and others. Thenthey had small woodenwagons, to which theyharnessed live mice,horses and ships madeof leather, chickens, andjack-stones (called by along Greek name.)Your Jack-in-the-Pul-pit told you of them once in St. Nicholas forApril, 1877. Tops were among the earliest play-things of the Greeks, and were well known in Romein the time of Virgil. One old writer says that awoman, named Anagalia, of Corcyra, made thefirst ball. However that may be, we know thatladies used to play ball in those days. So much for ancient playthings. It is evidentthat little folks were amused; let us see what they
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NEW-ZEALAND GIRL AND HER PET PIG, are playing with to-day. Begin with the Cradleof Nations, the mother of us all,—Asia. It is saidthat the religion of Mohammed forbids toys, but, ifso, it does not prevent little Mohammedans ofCentral Asia from having balls and tops, and evenrag-dolls, which travelers say are not very pretty,by the way. Also of terra cotta they have horses,cattle, dogs, fish, chickens, lions, and donkeys withpack saddles. In Western Asia, dolls with armsand legs moved by strings, like a jumping-jack,comic figures, whistles,marbles, and otherthings. The children of Indiafare better than manyAsiatics about toys.The girls have dollsmade of wood, cut outall dressed, and paintedin gay colors, as thoughthey wore real clothes.They have them of allsizes, and, indeed, thedoll is a very importantmember of the family.In many houses dollshave a room to them-selves, and enjoy asmuch attention as chil-dren. Feasts and gar-den parties are given intheir honor. The deathof one involv

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