Show GERMAN ERMAN AND FRENCH ART A A shipload of German toys was unloaded in ill inN N w York Tork late last week To Toys rs for lor millions cf ef children hildren Perhaps J you ou ask ak Why should Out our Outi ouri i s v i country c y send tc Germany for or toys 1 Why t do 1 0 not our own ingenious people make them The rhe answer an- an is because we lack the patience and skill an and l cannot annot yet apply appy what we do know to all the r practical details of life German mechanics mechanics' are areno no better thaI than American mechanics but the systems systems l S of the two cou countries tries are arc al altogether different A German boy or girl has a natural aptitude e for for HJ I painting He or she goes through the schools and f It it ft is found that while the pupil is clever CleVel he or she jj Blacks the divine gift of the great artist But a n t. t m. m r- r school of design is next tried and there the hand i that that it was hoped would bring forth divine creations crea erca- w while it itt failed in that can draw draw a Teddy I b bear ar to perfection The drawing made the next j question is what cheap material material can can be selected JI out of f which to manufacture this Teddy bear as an J article of comm commerce 7 That decided upon then the suit for the first Teddy bear has first to be drawn it i R and then cut Then a skilled artist has to work J ij H k out the bones to support the suit and aDd then the I I suit snit by v another artist is made and fitted There I are arc plenty of ot other details of course The eyes iY h have veto to be a the of ot 1 the l lh ve provided proper expression face w worked out etc When one bear is IS made 1 then the matei material al for the second one is gotten is-gotten gotten out 4 f i and each distinct piece is given to an artist and aDd soon bears a are e produced faster then than th they y are are above f the arctic circle cicle It is s so with all the t toys ys It lt is a regular business and gives employment to thou- thou sands Some are arc real artists some n most ost skilled rJ artisans very many many arc are mere common laborers but with the work completed they c can n load ships vj t with them and sell their work to all the world It looks like petty work vork to the ordinary American Amer- Amer Id ican jean mechanic but just that kind t c care and skill i and patience in jn th their ir work and with the help of Of r the government in sending fast ast ships to all the worlds world's ports has made Germany in the tho last thirty years the richest country of continental M Europe and has given so many of her children l work vor that emigration from there has practically c ceased ased N Nthan than a thousand years ago old est established art schools in France They have bee been kept up ever since until France is j really a nation of artists Long ago her children c caught the idea of fusing cheap material with r 2 t French brains to make I a profit Now those artists t Stake lak a piece of or wort worthless clay mix it mold it jt bake it and decorate it and lo what was sas worthless worthless worthless worth worth- less at first when so prepared becomes a work of or Brt art so rare that the rich gladly pour out their gold I for it What do they buy A bit of clay worth ar a a. ar I r penny and all the rest is French brains rains France h has s. s fought a thousand wars the cost in many of which has been almost beyond computing but she has paid her way and has now more surplus money than any other power on earth and she has made tic thc most of it out of that happy thought of old O Charlemagne to establish something through which his is people col could d. d produce out of cheap material hat the rich o of the tho earth would woul be glad gad to exchange ex- ex change hange their gold for We Ve in America Aneria have many j lessons to learn yet |