The Palatka Daily News

The Doll Doctor of Leipsic.
Berlin Tageblatt.
The denizens of Leipsic, young and old, mourn the loss of one of the most modest and retiring, yet the most skilful operators. Frau Emma Frederike Schneider, better known as the "doll doctor," who died there last week. For more than half a century, ever since the death of her husband and child, this quaint, quiet and indefatigable woman has devoted her life and skill to the repairing and freshening up of dolls, in which occupation she had attained an incredible dexterity not only, but also won the hearts of the growing as well as the grown generations of Leipsic. A visit to her atelier was one of the sights of the city. Those who were permitted to enter the sacred precincts could only do so standing--chairs, tables, the floor, the walls, in fact every available place was covered with "cripples" of both sexes, boys and girls in rags or entirely without habiliments, that lacked one or both eyes, one or both arms, or legs, or feet, the "innards," a nose, a wig, or the half or whole of a head, etc., and that were turned out as good as new by the quiet, almost dwarfed little woman, to the delight of the juvenile possessors. Her sphere of usefulness was confined to Leipsic only-no outsiders need apply. Her loss will indeed be "irreparable" for a long time to come.