DO'LIUM (Lat., large jar). A genus of gas tropod mollusks. See Tt N-Sitta DOLL (probably from If. II, abbreviation of Doredby). A figure representing a baby, Willett always been a favorite toy for girls. Dolls have been used from the earliest limes anti among all nations. barbarous as well as eivili7441, became such tastes and desires spring from that love of nursing and fondling infants implanted by natal-e in the banale charaeter. The manufae ture of dolls is and has always been an industry carried on in the rural districts of Continental Europe. phietly by the peasants ill their homes. Factories for the manufacture of dolls have kern introduced into England and America, but the ex treme cheapness 01 peasant labor and the won derful skill acquired by successive generations in the art of doll-making, still enable this hand made product to compete successfully with the output of the factory. As in the ease of most other toys, dolls were at one time imported into Great Britain chiefly from the Netherlands: and hence not an unusual name for a doll was 'a Flanders baby.' These old Flemish or Dutch dolls were made of wood. with neatly formed faces and flashy dresses, the cheaper kinds having slender wooden legs. .)lost of the dolls made about 1860 were the long, slender, kid nr cloth .bodied with heads of papier-machi. or china. Next came the beautiful wax dolls, with natural ring lets, eyes that open and shut. and apparatus in side by which they could be made to squeak and sometimes say 'Papa' and 'Mamma.'
These dolls, though very beautiful, were both expensive and perishable, and arc no longer manu factured. Last of all came the wooden-bodied jointed dolls. These were invented by a French man called Jumeau, and for a time were made wholly in France: hut a jointed doll equally good, though less costly, is now made in Germany. China and bisque heads of dolls are made in little' village factories in Continental Europe, the manufacture being limited by the village au thorities on account of the smoke nuisance which it creates. Papier-niaci!. and other composition heads are usually molded at home. In making dolls, the work is divided among the' members of the household, the father molding the different parts of the doll, the mother painting them and making the wigs, while the children put the parts together. After completion, the dolls arc taken to a general collecting house.
The manufacture of rubber dolls is a branch of the industry which is chiefly carried on in large factories. A recent development is the modern rag baby, a doll made from printed cloth and stuffed into the well-rounded form of a baby. This form of doll is printed in bright colors, and is largely made in America.
DOL'LALOLrLA. The Queen in Fielding's burlesque Toni Thumb. She has a trifling weak ness as regards strong drink, and is a bit of a shrew. She is enamored of Tom Thumb.