Entertainments for Home, Church and School

ON-CHINESE GIANT-TWO-HEADED GIRL-CAPTAIN

rlesque fashion, by living performers. Each "figure" is first duly described by the e

alico dress and white apron, with hat slung over her arm. John and Peter may be dressed in livery suits, and should be provided with watchman's rattle, screwdriver, hammer, nails and oil-can. At the rise of the curtain the figures are seen ranged in a semicircle at the back of the stage, and Little Nell is discovered dust

lowered to permit one party to retire and another to take their places. After the whole of the figures of a given chamber have been described, the assistants wind them all up, and they go throug

ndency of any particular figure to tip over, and the application, by John and Peter, of wooden wedges, penny pieces, etc., under its feet to keep it upright. Supposed defective working, causing the figure to stop suddenly in the middle of its movements, and involving the rewinding or oiling of its internal mechanism, will also produce a good deal of amusement. The "winding up" may be done with a bed-winch

e curtain raised, Mrs. Jarley deliver

e and country, and are here shown together for the first time. I shall describe each one of them for your benefit, and, after I have given you their history, I shall have each one of them wound up, for they are all fitted with clockwork inside,

uce to your notice each one of my figures, b

CHINE

KIRT AROUND THE WAIST, LONG ENOUGH TO HIDE THE ST

of Oolong and Shanghi, one province not being long enough to produce him. On account of his extreme length it is

discovered by him or some other of the Chinese. The portrait of this person, who was a high dignitary among them, may be often seen depicted on a blu

ind up t

ad three times and bows as before, a

ense in procuring wonders of every sort, an

TWO-HE

e fair faces, each one lovelier than the other. No one can gaze upon them without a double sensation 'of sorrow and of jo

hem up,

, wrapped in one large skirt. They hold their arms out, with

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rk which she holds is stained with gore, which drips from her finger onto the floor. (Which is poetry!) This forms a sad and melancholy warning to all heads of families immediatel

e: Opt

igure sews very stif

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somewhere down east. His whole life being spent upon the stormy deep, he amassed an immense fortune, and buried it in the sand along the flower-clad banks of Cape Cod, by which course he invented the savings banks, now so common along shore. Having hidden away so much property, which, like so many modern i

'em up

e pantaloons, blue shirt, s

. Movement-The captain's sword moves up an

SIAME

bone (attached by wire or string) between them. One arm of eac

on between them. They were never seen apart, such was their brotherly fondness. They married young, both being opposed to a single life. The short one is not qui

to fight, continue for a

CELEBRAT

AK, LONG WHITE W

ge of two hundred and ninety-seven, in consequence of eating too freely of pies and cakes, his favorite food. He measured exactly two feet and seven inches from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, and two feet and

right hand; in his left hand he holds a bowl, whic

f's hand, for it has become so loose that it

wl, and again winds up the figure, whi

THE V

s. This wonderful automaton singer represents Signorina Squallini, the unrivaled vocal

let her liquid

few notes in a very extravagant man

eeds oiling. Why do you not a

rikes a high note and sings with much expression and many trills, then

: Eveni

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h broad-brimmed straw hat. He is seated on a low rocking-chair, with his legs resting on t

his prehensile tail, snowballed the Russian bear on the snowy slopes of Alpine forests, and sold wooden nutmegs to the unsuspecting innocents of Patagonia. He has peddled patent medicines in the Desert of Sahara, and

his hat back on his hea

HE CA

onaries gladly and gave them a place near his heart. He was finally converted by a very tough tract-distributor, who had been brought up in a Bloomsbury boarding-house, and was induced to become civilized. One of his evidences of a change of life was shown by his statement that he now had but one wife, like the English. 'What have you

atch, very short skirt, feather headdress, large rings in nose

e brandishes his club and

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essed as a very small boy, the other a

bins covered them up with leaves. These lifelike figures represent the children just after taking their leaves of the villain. By a master stroke of genius the artist has shown very delicately that human nature is not utterly depraved, for the vill

'em up

o the other a bite

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sket on her arm. Costume i

hildren to be careful how they do much for their grandmothers, unless they are rich and can leave them something in their wills. This personage was an especial favorite with children, who love to read about her, and shed tears over her unhappy fa

igure curtseys and h

WITH GOL

er shoulders, holds bottle (labelled Mrs.

ords in praise of the wonderful hair restorer, for this image had grown so bald from the effect of long journeys by road or rail that she was exhibited for two years as the Old Man of the Mountain. One bottle of this wonde