Almost all doll play involves the assumption of psychic qualities, but a few illustrations are added:

F., 18. I went to dolls with all my childish trials and felt relieved when I had poured out my heart to them.

F., 16. I supposed they were real children and would talk to them and laugh.

F., 15. Her name is a real person's name, and she is just as real to me as a real baby.

F., 16. I thought my dolls had the same feelings as persons.

F., 17. How would you like to be thrown down like that?

F., 7. Dolly was very angry when I would n't let her go to see the other children. I knew that my dolls had vitality and mind. My baby doll gives me no rest day or night; she is better if I take her out.

F., 11. When I found dolly laying out on the ground I thought I could see tears in her eyes, she was so hungry and cold.

F., 14. Two of my dolls had their heads broken off, but this made no difference in my treatment, for they seemed endowed with life and feeling. One day we were invited to a party, and I would not let Rose (dolly) go, because she had been naughty, but she cried so, and said she would be good, that I let her go.

F., 12. Dolly had been naughty, and instead of taking her out to ride I made her sit in a chair all day.

F., II. [A fifth-grade girl would kiss and "poor" her doll after spanking her, but once, after a specially severe punishment, was filled with remorse for days.] I talked to my doll as if it could hear, and thought it could.

F., 12. Cut off her Japanese doll's hair, so she could never go back to Japan.

F., 6. Cut her doll's hair, thinking it would grow again.

F., 12. Said to her dolly, "There, I have fixed baby's hair and she did n't cry. Can't you be as good?"

M., 7. Screamed, saying, "Mother, mend the doll's leg," thinking such surgery painful.

F., 13. Would put molasses on doll's mouth, and then punish her for stealing it.

F., 13. Knocked Chinese doll against a window for crying and broke it.

F., 9. Sings dolly to sleep with her favorite songs.

F., 12. I thought all my other dolls jealous of the finest one.

F., 4. Dolls are good or bad as she is. If corrected for bad language, her dolls use it.

F., II. Said, "Dolly was never on the cars to enjoy it before, but always went in the trunk.

F., 3. Her dolly often wants to go to the water closet, and is tenderly put on the stool by her little mother.

F., 6. Has great fears her dolls will feel lonesome.

F., 4. Now, dolly, I would like to give you a bath, but I must go up and see that other baby bathed, - the real one, you know.

F., 4. Will my dolly ever grow up to be a lady doll?

DOLL'S FOOD AND FEEDING

In our returns 90 children fed their dolls with both liquid and solid food; 75 sat at the doll's table; 68 touched food to the doll's lips and then ate it themselves (some speak of chewing it for the doll), or put it in doll's hand to make believe she ate it; 45 give it milk (16 of whom imagined water to be milk, and then played nurse the doll in natural way); 36 distinctly imagined the food; 33 set the dolls at table with themselves; 31 imagined or pretended growth, 8 of whom were positive the doll grew, thinking dresses grew short, or pulled doll's legs and found her to measure more; 29 say they never fed dolls or that they couldn't eat; 23 touched food to doll's lips, then threw it away, or put it in doll's mouth and took it out again; 19 distinctly imagined hunger; 19 declared that dolls preferred certain kinds of food to others; 15 were strenuous in urging real hunger; 2 said the dolls looked hungry; 9 thought them hungry when they were so themselves; 13 poked food inside the dolls' heads, where sometimes it accumulated and spoiled; I broke doll's tooth trying to get food in; I broke a hole to do so; 12 really put liquid into the doll; I had a rubber ball in the back of the doll's head to squirt it out; 13 reported spells of great regularity in feeding; II, constant regularity; 9 used only liquid food; 7, only solid; 6 imagined they ate

without any agency of the child; 7 used empty plates and imagined the food; 6 thought some foods especially disagreed with dolls; II seemed to think dolls really starved if not fed; 6 gave foods according to the age; 3 put the food down the neck of the doll's dress; 4 poured liquid food on the front of the dress; 8 always gave the dolls the same food as they had; I saw a healthy look in her doll from having slept and eaten well.

The following foods are also mentioned mostly by children between the ages of five and eleven: milk 88 times, bread 75 times, cake 62 times, water 45, candy 33, crackers 27, potatoes 19, tea 18, meat 15, sugar 13, pie 13, fruit 13, apples 12, butter 9, ice cream 8, cookies 7, all kinds of food 7, mud pies 6, coffee 5, sweetened water 5, dirt 3, gingerbread 3, grapes 3, nuts 3, strawberries 3, biscuit 3, apple juice 2, puddings 4, oranges 4, salt 4. The following were mentioned by two children apple sauce, chicken, chalk and water, flour and water, gravy, cheese, chocolate, eggs, flowers, fish, mustard, lemonade, leaves, jelly, sand (for food, for flour, for sugar), soup, sweets. The following were mentioned once each: canned corn, blacking, beefsteak, buttons, brown paper, brick dust and water, boards in thin slices, beans, acorns, cocoanut, custard, cocoa, cinnamon water, crumbs, cream, flour, grass, green fruit, grasshopper (used as roast turkey), jumbles, lime, mush, mucilage and water, orange juice for soup, pears, pickles, pancakes, peaches, pictures of food (for paper dolls), rice, roast beef, starch and water for milk, also sticks, stones, sawdust, seed (in bottles for canned corn), soft food, soapsuds, vegetables.

Some children put food on the floor near the doll, others think it tries to eat or move the hand toward the food, forgets to eat, prefers cup, bottle, spoon, plate, glass, or to eat with fingers. Some are fed only when children play house, or Sunday mornings, or on coming home from school, or Saturdays,

or going to bed, or between meals, or once a day. Out of 49, 19 say positively that dolls are never hungry, 14 are positive they are, 16 are in doubt, some think they are hungry all the time, others not often, or sometimes, or may be, or guess so. Out of other 49, 18 think dolls will not starve if not fed, 17 think they will starve if not fed, the others are divided.

F., 50. My dolls always went with me to the country, because they could not get out of the doll house to buy food.

F., 26. I fed one doll regularly until I found she would not grow, then only when I happened to think.

F., 6. Gives dolls flowers to smell for dessert.

F., 10. Once dolly got hungry and asked me for food. I fed liquids on a bib, thinking babies soaked it up that way.

F., 49. I put food on doll's mouth till it was dry, and thought the doll sucked out the juice.

F., 6. Uses doll biscuits, offering them first to the doll, then eating them herself.

F., 4. When her doll's head was knocked off, cried till uncle said he would fill it with meal before fastening it on; then thought she would get enough to eat and be well.

F., 14. Squeezed everything she could into a small mouth opening, fixed so it came out at the back.

F., 21. I used to worry lest I should not feed my doll and it would

starve.

F., 4. Punished her doll by making it eat dirt, stones, coal, etc.

Dolls are weighed, and a few days later shot and stones are sewed in their clothes so they will weigh more. Children say of foods they especially like or dislike, that it is good or bad for their dolls. They often have recipes, as "flour, salt, sugar, milk, baked till brown." Sometimes the table ceremonies are elaborate, including grace, comments on food, courses, etc. At Thanksgiving dinners blocks are (play) boiled for turkey, round things for pies, and cakes and the rest pictures. When the food is not wholly imaginary, crackers may serve for every

solid, and water for all drinks. Toy cook stoves are a great boon to children during the brewing and cooking age. If children eat too much or prefer the wrong kinds of food, dolls are accused of doing the same thing. They are counseled not to eat too fast, nor to be greedy, nor to slobber. If dolls are sick they must be fed accordingly. With some children the fire, stove, wood, dishes, and food are entirely imaginary; but more commonly something is imagined to be something else which it more or less resembles. Leaves and chips are plates, sticks are for spoons, bits of broken crockery are whole dishes, pieces of paper, petals of flowers, even figures on the carpet are dishes, so are shells and flat stones, acorns are cups and saucers, clothespins are sugar tongs, and napkins and every kind of table furniture is parodied. Soapsuds is ice cream, mud is chocolate cake, brick dust and water is tea, salt is imagined to be sugar, and sugar salt. Many kinds of seeds, buds, etc., are used. A barnyard weed has a tiny pod called cheese. Flag root and pods, birch bark, nuts, the honeyed ends of clover, honeysuckle, and other blossoms, green fruit, peppergrass, and many other things are used as dolls' food, and sometimes children are injured by eating what only their imagination makes wholesome.

SLEEP

329 papers speak of dolls' sleep. Most of these children are between six and eleven. 90 mentioned keeping others quiet while the dolls slept, 76 rocked the doll in their arms and sang to put it to sleep, and 76 put it in bed and did so, 55 rocked it to sleep without song, 37 used cradle and song, 33 took doll to bed with them, 12 expressly insisted that the doll really slept, 7 never put dolls to sleep, 3 shut the eyes of mechanical dolls only and called that sleep, 5 said that it made no difference to dolls whether there was quiet or not, 10 had dolls