The Origin Of Puppet Shows

The puppet show is such an ancient institutiou and has beeu popular in so ruany couutries that its origin is quite obscured by the mists of antiquity. Antiquaries with ethnólogical spectacles have peered into this pristiue fog and discerned a conuection between the puppet show and religious observances. They have esrablis-hed the fact that dolls and marionettes are closely related and even ad vaneed the theory that theshadow puppets used in many lauds denote a time when all the people saw of religious ceremonies was the shadows of the officiatiug priests cast upon the walls of