Show CHRISTMAS TOYS ALREADY ON MARKET FOR HOLIDAY TRADE N New w York Times Christmas toys are already on the market All AU summer long the creators of childrens children's novelties have been at work and the retailer Is laying In his stork stock The ke keynote note this year Is to be In the matter mattel of ot toy selection Santa Claus Glaus has has' been at work on a variety of ot things Intended to promote the health of oC the child as well as to amuse him Hence athletic games are arc In the You will wilt be able to buy a complete gymnasium on a small email cale for the use of or the child this year ear Including everything everything everything every every- thing that sacs goes to make mak up the paraphernalia paraphernalia para para- of oC muscle development There Thele are arc patent sible wall sets the weights of at which are dumbbells and may be detached and used separately There sue ate punching bags that may he be used either elthel on a bracket or on a floor floor- ceiling and-ceiling rope There are arc parallel bars that ma may be converted con Into vaultIng vaultIng vaulting vault- vault Ing hOl s. s There e IB is even a n punching bag and football combination There are geographical puzzles which take In our new sea over possessions teaching the names of oC cities and towns therein There are maps which when placed together form themselves eR Into of oC Manila Porto nico Rico and Cuba But they are not affairs which are easily pieced together so that the child will need to have at least a n. smatterIng smattering smattering of the topography of these countries countries countries coun coun- tries b before he will be able to construct the maps thereof Most of the leading novelties no this yeas year caf are intended to furnish amusement amuse ment for the elders as ns well vell as the youngsters So while a 3 child will wiil undoubtedly un WI- be lie fascinated with some of the games James planned on the order of billiards billiards billiards bil bil- bil- bil and pool BO so also will be the older members of the family for some Mme skill Is required to manipulate many of the games One of ot these games has even oven attained to the dignity of oC composition balls and chalked cues for shooting them Into the pockets at al the corners of or the table The game Is different from that which Is played In public halls however The balls are placed differently on the table and the counting Is not the same tame Games generally arc In demand and judging by th the fact that one firm alone has placed orders for sets of or pong ping-pong or table tennis that game Is to be the popular Indoor Innovation this winter Another dealer whose orders orders orders or or- ders are arc nearly as large laige as those of the dealer Just mentioned says tays a 8 that there has been no falling off orr In the popularity of at the game and that It wit will b be In even evenI greater vogue this winter than It was I last year ear earThe The classic building block Is 15 to be besold besold besold sold in even greater varlet variety than ever el before and the thero are specimens of stone cement wood and other ion con on- on Kites are also to be awarded the good little boy not nol not the old fash toned affairs that tha t have to be adjusted with long tails but great box kites like those used b by the United Stales States weather bureau to which the youngsters youngsters young young- ma may attach Leyden Jars and do some sonic experimenting on his own ac ac- ac- ac count Malay kites are arc also on sale some of them seven feet high 1 b hit Jt so easily handled that a bo boy under 10 ma may fly them from the housetop without danger of or being pulled from his perch For the little girls there then are dolls dolls- tho the mothering Instinct Is always assertive as ns- rag rag dolls that will not break The chief novelty In this line Includes two dolls in one one oie It Is planned to enable enable enable en en- able the child to practice u a little magic to the great surprise of oC her friends For Instance she shows them a n. doll doH dressed In blue Placing It behind her hack back she brings forth orth Instantly a black dressed In red In either cither cas case e she has apparently only one doll How does sh she manage It Under th the skirts shirts of or the white doll which has no legs th there re are the head and bust of the doll doH By Br catching hold of or orthe the head of or this black doll the skirts Immediately fall down over the white dolls doll's head the Jarms hanging down beyond beyond be be- yond the covered head and making the necessary feet teet Freak toys are not to be In vogue this winter Those that are sold are In the hands of the fakirs and will be obtainable obtainable obtainable obtain obtain- able only on the sidewalks The leading lendIng lead lend ing novelty no In this line Is a n. rubber case which when Inflated looks like a monstrous monstrous mon nion- Frankfurter sausage and which when alia allowed ed to leave the hand flies files swiftly up into the air pursuing a 0 g gyrating course It lo loses es air as It flies however and soon comes down again near where It was set off oft A curious feature of or the sale of at this toy Is that the fakir having It in charge employs a corps of or assistants assistants assist assist- ants to chase chafie the recalcitrant balloons and bring them back to him The crowd that gathers also loves lovea to chase the things on its it's own ottri account and there is consequently conse a great deal of or excitement excitement excite excite- ment meat in the Immediate te neighborhood of ot the balloon seller |