Show 1 i I d s 's G A G uns I DaZe DI I I A if Youg cung Set SetI I Weg eBy ern By Melba I. I 1 Fer Ferguson lIson Its It's a danger dangerous aus world these days Armed men stalk about with guns on their hips firing at the slightest provocation provocation and and the wounded and dead bite the dust like true Indians Its It's quite a sight I Cowboys and Indians has been a favorite game of the 5 to 10 year olds of each generation but this year aided and abetted by television movies newspaper comic strips and novelty manufacturers the game looks almost like the genuine article b I n Want nt Real neal Thing This year junior isn't content with a wooden wood wood- en gu gun He wears a cap gun that looks exactly like the six shooter for his favorite movie hero and and hes he's just as quick on the draw v. His bolsters holsters holsters hol hol- are made of good leather fringed and nickel studded studded and and they ride low on his hips He and his friends compare them and arc are satisfied satisfied satisfied satis satis- I fied with nothing less than what looks like the thereal thereal thereal real thing I A set of holsters and guns costs from 8 to toI I 10 If junior is going to look like his favorite western movie or television star he can come close to costing his parents including boots hat shirt western pants chaps and the rest of ofa a cowboys cowboy's regalia And after all that of course hell he'll start wishing for a horse From 5 to 10 years is the age of imagination imagination tl tion on l in h children Boys easily see themselves riding bucking broncos shooting it out with In Indians Indians Indians In- In or cattle rustlers rustlers and and the clothes aid this ill illusion Fad Nothing Ness v The current western hero worship is nothing new The cowboy to the small is I the picturesque American he American he lives in the open I rides shoots does what most boys would naturally naturally naturally na na- na- na like to do With not only little boys but little girls girls girls- and some grown men and women as well well well- taking up the fad for western things it looks i as if the garb of the cowboy may become our ouri i typical national costume I Y S v f. f t j fe v jj o 1 4 41 4 f 44 s. s 4 rf l d A r. r r r J t. J Like most other 6 year Ernest C. C Short Shorty tl Ferguson on Jr doesn't feel dressed without his six six- guns lies lie's example of cowboy hoy fad which ha has taken over o these days das Parents find it expensive c I. I |