Show t 1 < I I I1 NTGLAU GfOi JS iei4rCU4L tflf INU OYb < NDi L i W1 I t t c W I I r f i it Ih y I = f = 7 I 1ir i j h I At I t I T 9 UL > CiJ P I I j r w rr p 1 iJ 1Jf T a5P 1 I 7 J urMll WELL Vi < If l APPOMTED GARAGE bm 9 JL l 11 1 < I tie J m = 1 J l I J Jf I n I z Ie I of J r r l1 ECLIto P I o TilE I r r I t 4 C10jtr5 A3 N i + ir I LUIlll I w j I IT lnpPY M = e of V91 I 1 WI m < TIII1 t f IINIL y 1 Ir J T1 f0 lit I t I P1 1 A L I sl1 I r r J I A I I JlL m 11 ic J JV v I S J t 90 III 1 J i r BO ll JliJj 1 t iv s I J > l 0 4 r 2 w I y I d1 A Q I U f 1 V5 V G e r J L4I l p l co J L a5w I J 0 Lr of pl I 1 I r Jf f c1r5T LIKE rfERZ lITOllle UST como for a trip to Toyland and take a peep at tho many delightful J presents which Santa Clans prepared pre-pared for enriching the youthful Christmas Ills enchanted castle brilliantly lighted Is filled with an endless variety of toys and as the visitor passes through tho main 1 avenues In this wonderful world tho spectacle becomes more and more entrancing Numberless fairy lamps lead tho way to where the mechanical and electrical toys are stored and what an imposing array they make Tho place seems full of motor cars motor omnibuses and motor boats darting hero there and everywhere at the bidding of their miniature drivers Tile wireless telegraph tele-graph is busy sending messages and the Wlins hurst machine with Its glssler tube Is producing produc-ing tho most beautiful colors as though by lightning Close at hand are scores of different kinds of steam engines models of together to-gether with railway carriages stations tunnels signals and all the rest of It just like a real railway Over there we catch a glimpse of the Xrays a complete plating machine and hundreds of electrical toys which are golilg to be all tho rage this season among those who can bo favored with costly playthings Somo of the engines come to as much as ten guineas but the smaller models can be had for a very trifling I tri-fling sum An adjoining room wears quite a military aspect with Its thousands of leaden soldiers In full dress looking very fierce and brave No doubt they will be pleased to receive marching march-ing orders and show what they can do with their rifles swords and real cannon You can tell they are like real soldiers because they dont seem to mind a hit being placed In tho midst of all sorts of animals such as elephants lions tigers bears leopards and monkeys The elephants trumpet the lions and tigers roar tho boars growl tho horses neigh tho donkeys bray the dogs hark tho cats meow and all the rest do their full share towards swelling tho uproar but It makes no difference to tile soldiers A little further on taxicabs dodge In and out of miniature garages and skillfully steer their way between London county council electric trams All tho drivers are really very clever In Toylnnd A long line of spirited rocking horsey and prancing gee gees marKS the way to tho dolls palaces This Is essentially the girls domain It Is scarcely possible to conceive anything which Is not here represented Some of file I houses are largo enough to be called mansions They are provided with a complete staff of servants ser-vants an ample larder a thousand and one little I 0 comforts a com-forts and to round off tho luxury of It all a smart motor car stands at the front entrance en-trance awaiting tho appearance of my lord and lady Was there ever such a show of dolls seen before They seem to be everywhere display Ing their finery Tho undress doll Is away on atop a-top shelf because the popular doll must be In tho fashion In the way of dress The adult doll with hair done In the latest style Is one of the features of tho place Baby dolls are apt to be tiresome but the grownups are always on their best behavior Of course tho universal ambition to soar in tho air is represented In Toyland otherwise tho place would be Incomplete tops which fly 1111 to the coning tops which sing In the air plums apples pears and other fruit dance about most gayly I Swimming men dancing Scotchmen snowballs stuffed with small toys and humptydumpty circuses come in view as you wander along whllo games galore call aloud for inspection Toyland certainly never was so full of splendid things for those who can spend dollars and cents Take another turn however and wo come to Tiny Town where tho purchasing power of the penny is best represented Sets of kitchen utensils traction engines gunboats cruisers motor omnibuses railway engines blacksmiths black-smiths sawyers county council trams lighthouses light-houses dancing ballet girls dolls furniture sewing sets gold fishes in globes minus the elaborate mechanism of tho more expensive type but all made to work Comical figures magnetic divers shooting galleries skin animals ani-mals and hundreds of musical contrivances are priced at a few cents In tho course of a short ramble through Toy land It is Impossible for us to see all that Is to bo seen but It Is clear that Santa Claus has never had such a busy time In making arrangements ar-rangements for his Christmas eve visit The season according to tho great toy emporiums em-poriums whoso wonderful stocks are reviewed abovewill probably make a record from the business standpoint Each succeeding year brings a growth In the demand for better class toys and It is a happy circumstance that the English maker Is awakening to the possibility of big business In this direction Tie German snatched the soldier trade from tho French and for years maintained a practical prac-tical monopoly but In turn tho German has been completely ousted by the Englishman In some of tho largest toy places In London this Christmas not a single foreign made soldier sol-dier will bo sold Till same success Is apparently appar-ently awaiting English enterprise In regard to dolls houses Germany still holds tho field OB regards dolls t x I liIECtJLLYlftJC 1I11 rYOrHER8PEW4 rY I v i r < IJVII U4 but In the course of time even this phase of Toyland may undergo a change Games bid fair to become extremely popular DIabolo or the devil on two sticks has already captured Paris and the demand in London suggests the likelihood of Its becoming be-coming a great craze thereAt there-At a moment when tho toy Industry In France Is on the wane the famous caricaturist Caran dAche comes to the rescue Being medically forbidden to follow his art hp turned ns a hobby to making wooden animals Unable to repress tho humorous strain in his soul he imparted im-parted to his creations a mirthprovoking character char-acter which has already made them the rage of Paris and to judge from the Burlington Arcade Ar-cade they will ere long become quite a craze In London From the cheap mechanical toy which impedes Im-pedes our progress through tho streets as displayed dis-played on tho pavement by the enterprising camelot to tho wonderful creations which the Nain Pica that paradise of French children for nearly a century has provided for tho pampered pam-pered darlings of the wealthy the predominating predominat-ing element In tho French toy of today is mechanical Ingenuity Never has this been more noticeable than in the novelties which the manufacturers are preparing for the coming holidays The average French maker of toys scorns to offer the little ones such simple things as our childhood knew and the wooden doll and woolly baalamb are to bo found only In tho poorer districts Dolls mado of wood there are but the wood is only a casing for wonderful wonder-ful works and tho lamb must bo lifesize and able at least to frisk Among the more expensive toys and one which will give the small boy with a gun an opportunity to prove himself a crack shot is the pigeon shooting device which Is an attractive attrac-tive novelty Upon a pole about eight feet In height a crossbar Is affixed much after the fashion of a parrots perch except that the crosspiece is mobile and is made to swing In n circular direction by means of a simple arrangement of weights like those of a cuckoo clock At each end of the crossbar Is a colored cardboard pigeon with outspread wings The machinery Is set In motion and a well dlreclod shot from a toy gun knocks the bird down Miniature automobiles there are In plenty but tho latest thing In the toy motorcar line Is run by electricity and has If you please a powerful electric headlight and movable hood It Is doubtful however If even so magnificent mag-nificent a plaything as this can have tho attraction at-traction for the uptodate youngster which by the little tin was provided automobile a catastrophe which was tho great novelty of last Christmas and promises to bo popular again this year This diminutive car held two 1 doll passengers the chauffeur and his lady You wound It up and It sped along the floor right merrily for a few yards when suddenly there was a terrible shockthe catastrophe The car came to pieces and the unfortunate Occupants Oc-cupants were hurled Into tho air and fell In pitiful heaps beside the machine Sometimes the realism was so intense that the luckless motorists fell under the shattered machine and then their fate was too horrible to dwell upon You picked up the pieces and put them together to-gether and revived tho doll corpses and set the car going again and so o You could have tho most exciting accidents all day long But automobiles are vlcux Jell now and oven steering balloons of tho Santos Dumont typo no longer find favor with the toy manufacturers manufac-turers This Christmas the Petit Noel who is the French childs Santa Clans will scatter toy aeroplanes along his path To be sure they have to ho suspended by a string from the chandelier but If tho string Is a black thread It is hardly visible and the Illusion quite successful Apropos of flying things the top of that denomination de-nomination which figures among tho novelties is a most fascinating affair though why top Is not clear A light metal disc made to represent repre-sent a bird or a butterfly with wingtips upon a ring is placed upon the floor What appeart to be a wand finished with a rubber cup Ir i pressed against Ute center of tho disc and briskly withdrawn Tho disc whirls rapidly and rises In the all flying off In various dlrec 1 tions Since the French caricaturists exhibition this spring when Caran dAches wooden toys created a furore and all the world of fashion flocked to see the show and admire his reel ment of General Bourn the celebrated artists toys have become a crazo with grown folk and children alike The playthings which Caran dAcho has fach ± loned In wood for tho season of gifts are In tho form of groups representing hunting parties In which European rulers are the principal figures Thus wo see his majesty King Edward arrayed In kilts accompanied by a brawny Highlander shooting over tho moors Wondering pheasants pheas-ants like barnyard fowl are grouped at the hunters feet and gaze In astonishment at tho alert clogs which point In most thorough fashion fash-ion The tzar In pursuit of native game and the president of France at Ramboulllet have also Inspired Monsieur dAche While children of all nationalities still cling fondly to Teddy bears their elders In Franco are Indulging youthful fancies In tho purchase of Caran dAchcts dogs and many are the Frenchmen desks which this Jour de rAn will see adorned with one of these delightful pups |