It is so arranged that the arms and legs are fastened on movable discs,
and Miss Dolly, instead of being the flat, uninteresting thing that most
paper dolls are, can move her arms and legs, and attend tea parties, and
take refreshments, just as any well brought-up stuffed dolly can.
She is to wear a great many beautiful dresses, which will take on and off
easily, and will be a very nice companion for the little women who live in
apartments, and have not much room for their dollies.
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_Scissors_ or _shears_.
This is a very useful invention for a boy's tool-box or for mamma's
work-table.
It is a combination affair. In the first place, it looks like an ordinary
pair of scissors. But when you open them to cut anything, you get the
first surprise: one of the blades is marked off in inches, half-inches,
quarters, eighths, and sixteenths.
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Then when you are prepared for the wonders these shears have to show, you
find that on one handle is a hammer-head, and that they can be used as a
hammer. Close to the hammer-head a screw-driver is arranged. At the point
of the shears is an awl for boring holes; and, most practical of all, the
scissors when they are opened out form a perfect carpenter's square.
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