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Show When Buying Toys for Children If you wish your child to get the most available from this year's toys, be sure to look for the five major qualities recommended by specialists. Toys to be thoroughly satisfying for the small fry should have five major qualities, say specialists at the college of home economics, Cornell. First, toys should be durable to withstand the rough and tumble of any one child and his playmates. Sturdy toys can be repaired and repainted re-painted and passed on for the enjoyment en-joyment of other youngsters, in or out of the family. Toys should be simple and easy to handle and operate. Simple playthings play-things are more likely to hold interest in-terest through long child-hours and less likely to be shelved permanently. perma-nently. Toys should be safe to use without with-out sharp corners or rough places or poor paint that might be harmful to a youngster. And toys should be washable. Finally, toys should have what the specialists call a "do-with" quality. Good old stand-bys such as wagons, blocks, clay, sand, finger paints, and the like may fit into the child's interest of the moment. |