The Living Present

canvas crowded with heroic figures of French women of all classes who are working to the limit of their strength for their country or their families. T

d founded to teach the poor widows-whose pension is far inferior to the of

d these they had placed as scrub-women in hospitals or as servants in h?tels or families. But in the case of the more intelligent or deft of fin

ographs, to wind bobbins by electricity, to dress hair and fashion wigs, to engrave music scores, articulate artificial limbs, make art

g the doll trade of the world, and the industry almost ceased at its ancient focus. Madame Goujon was one of the first to see the opportunity for revival in France, and with Valentine Thompson and Madame Vérone, to

y years of plodding efficiency. The prettiest dolls I saw were those arrayed in the different national costumes of Europe, particularly those that still retain the styles of mus