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We notice magazines like Ladies Home Journal and Pictorial Review including paper doll cutouts as an attraction for children, presumably the girls. This meant both women's magazines and children's magazines. We are not sure precisely when magazines first began doing this or which magazine was the first. The first we note are American magazines. Grace Drayton began doing the Cambell kids lok-alike, Dolly Dingel and her friends in the Pictorial Review (1913). It became a popular monthly feature. Here we see a Ladies Home Journal 1915 paper doll cut out figures. The Journal character was Betty Bonnett. It was the monthly feature in what the magazine call the children's page. They were not always paper dolls, but this was a popular item. Apparently they were built around the various members of Betty Bonnets's family. The boy depicted in 1915 was brother Bob. Notice it was done in black and white. Color printing was still expensive. Betty Bonett in Ladies Home Journal and her friends after America declared war on Germany (1917). We note a Betty Bonnett paper doll wedding page in the Journal with a flower girl and page costume and all sorts of uniforms (1918) (figure 1).
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