Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-11-18 | Page 15 | The Toy That Grew Up

g f v i The 7 Toy o That Grew Up r. r V When most of us were young we had a wonderful toy a half- half i i magic agis pl plaything with an amP impressive name a name a kaleidoscope When I we tiye Ye held it to one eye and looked down the barrel there was presented presented presented pre pre- a brightly colored picture picture flowers flowers and people and animals and stars and diamonds forms without end Each time tim one gave it it a turn there appeared a change of colors and a shift of form that made a new picture so strange and fascinating that it held our eyes for hours Y r But after a time there were so many other toys we forgot this curious ious picture and dream maker until maker until one day when we were quite gr grown wn up we came upon that old toy again grown up too 1 only this time its name was not kaleidoscope It was CITY The toy grown up renews its fascination for the glittering bits fO glass that once made our wonder plaything have become human beings and again the pictures change at every turn Throngs of people threading the vii mi mighty tangles of streets giant grant buildings aspiring to the sky and at evening blossoming into vast gardens of winking lights guts pictures of labor sweating in the fierce heat of the blast furnaces and swinging over the gr great at ships in the river weaving the exquisite complex x webs of commerce pictures of myriad children in schools of worshippers in churches of sad folk in hospitals gay folk in theatres of workers and dancers of dreamers of lovers of fighters of the beaten of the victorious shifting fantastic pictures of mens men's mightiest toy toy toy-a a city