Before there were real Walker dolls here in Edyth’s doll
family , there was Mattie. Mattie is
short for Martha’s Dream. When Martha
Chase made dolls around 1900, she made them very close to how she remembered
her own childhood doll, an Izannah Walker doll.
Edyth was so hungry to have an Izannah Walker doll, that she did a very
naughty thing, she repainted a ragged and dirty little Chase child and named
her Martha’s Dream. The Doll’s Aunt
Dixie made an awful fuss about it, but
still it happened, even if not a very nice thing to do. And now Mattie plays with the Walker dolls and
their other cousins and has tea with them sometimes.
