Show kaidin ii syle Y in I 1 n ell 70 lizt tow r ny 1 Is 0 01 A 1 k A 19 4 1 1 1 1 1 J 14 fiig ap tit 0 14 V A t 4 lanta Santa Claus t assistants Assi stanta i rhioa rho L V 4 by LOUISE M comstock ML SIL wag when allen the job jeb of lanta claus ing wax wa a snap twelve months sul er the jolliest Joll lest of elves in the man of a standardized standardised sed ed line of toy toys and then a romantic evening whirling a picturesque whip over willing don doti der end and blitzen visiting friendly cot with wide welcoming ch chimney linnes e ani ant capacious fireplace stuffing sturdy hand knit linit stockings with vlony wo a dolls rubber balls and ugar sugar plum plums to nil in tip tic heel and extra carters con era A mere nothing milling in those golden days even the responsibility of distin gul shing between the neatly darned sock of good brother hen den and the bragget one of that ras rascally ally IN lalle very few little boya boys but were good an on I 1 deserving of sugar plums plains and easily pleased wl wian en fat I 1 pr ft as a it boyl boy I 1 hut but changing times ushering in steam heat kItch kitchenettes with only two inn windows on a court aard ard and a on the tile corridor to the rotund saint chetion flon hore ani ant a universal slavery to tho tile brent great god stale have hake put santa in the big business exec executive uthe clasi today loday we nie make him ban lally for constructing and distributing goine some worth of tois all with ith a bee dia ills 1 beleen the god ind tie poor a careful consideration for childish tastes and correct application of changing children a 8 plaything always g tile pot po sessions eess lons and tools of their ciders elders havo haie thus nut aurally from tho the very iery earliest fol followed follow lowel cl closely upon man kinds changing and fancies the dolls unearthed in I 1 tombs are made of wood and sometimes have moncle arms and legs bu they all show that stiffness and emphasis upon unon the profile view character of art I 1 arly african dolls with cut heads bere iere given ghen to children of the hot 1 am rm falkl for their religion forbade the reproduction of the human features among the toys of early children vo are not sur to ciril many animals tigers with K ith movable heads crocodiles whose lower jaws jans vork up and down lions lion of limestone on wooden v batons for the owner to pull about or a carved hedgehog on wheels aronian children played with two wheeled carte carts like the chariots in which their public heroes raced tos TO daring the middle ages if we are to judge judee from the few pro pr served for us included knights mounted it on horses modeled in clay and lender slender ladles of 0 terra cotta modeled in the elaborate c iturea of 0 the period painted in gold and brightest hues it Is he the mechanical mec hankal toy perhaps which shows most emphatically the influence of present day tendencies on children a playthings I 1 irom rom the tiniest tin automobile that windi winds up find rind darts furiously a few feet across the floor to tho the 1000 mechanical wonder T which succeeds by means of 0 springs and electricity to simulate exactly a real cat or a whole circus parade in action the pur chase usually so toy dealers tell oe us of 0 rich grandparents and uncles who wish to aind up the cat and watch the circus th themselves ems elves th these 80 toys employ every invention of modern science and they beep heep paco pace also with current interests teresta In loy counters today are crowded with minia minla turo motion picture cameras and projectors some of them capable of carrying WO fett of film and all of them so they are advertised easily managed by a twelve sear old k few seasons ago when a transatlantic flight was still novel enough to commend a streamer head tin line in ell all the newspapers the mechanical nir air plane was in high demand and toy golf equip ment or in loor golf rames domini dominated ted in the toy store at the tile same time that m miniature In lature golf greens began appelh app euH in III every lac vacant ant lot jut today v eel intent racing automobiles rind toy ter peler are supplanting the airplane in po pu larley and automobile or horse racing aimea gimco 1 and fuote 11 are crowding out golt golf in indoor games larry car trucks with ith a trailer capable of transi orting four small nio run iela lel end and delhery wagons stocked mith popular trade i marked vares mares keep this type of toy up to date allo real mothers roust must be content with babies upon whom hom current styles style in curly or straight hair blue eci tr cr bravn a have no influx enc ence one to ten ton year old mothers can be much more ir for styles in dolls change yar ly it seenia in grandmother a duy day all dolls vi were ere quite gro grown n up the youngest of the them m being prim young ladles indies in panta lettes and artificial curls the bab bob doll a real baby Is a corn com darathe ne new wiomer Lomer and even it has buffered suffered periods of more and less popularity with chang ing juvenile tastes in 19 1029 the flaxen hatred beauty with the baby face languished anted on the toy counter while the I 1 flapper doll with dark bobbed hair natty clothed and a complexion ity tanned found home this year thai ks Ls to the empress I 1 ug acenie rule or whoever it was who revived 1 in us a taste 4 0 A 0 for things old fashioned and sweetly feminine curls dimples long lashes and frilly viar wardrobes drobes are in again and baby dollsy I 1 ittle daughter has apparently chin up dreams of a career and requests of santa CI alius for it ills Is christina christmas noth ine ing more modern thin a doll dolls 8 house to kiep klep in and a realistic baby doll to be loed and nursed and dressed and redressed her ifer dreams of miniature domesticity are also it seems more elaborate and thorough going than those of to ahlm him the doll itself was all sufficient ahey include a rady made ward ard robe I 1 e what up to date little girl Is coing going to 1 a toy sewing machine een cien tit elec trie one dr i rick her fingers with a grol grownup n up needle whitt with the brand grand styles ant the bar liar gain prices of read to wear dolls clothes and they include also electric ranges that really cook carpet sweepers or better yet vacuum cleaners that clean A very different type of doll but one also indicating the influence ot of current tastes actea even on children a to tog a li is the caricature doll stuffed and painted to represent character characters already fa millar through the talking pictures popular juvenile books cr or widely read comic trips strips and SOMEBODY 3 COMING kris krindle il is coming i I 1 kris kringle il is tommy corns 4 kris kringle Is coming to to town al I 1 y I 1 he lie wears a b ff pack 1 I yi 1 0 OB the lop top of il his back 1 ai jj and looks I 1 its a 1 funny old clown i I 1 f now wait juit just a 1 i 1 I 1 I 1 IU U all whit what 1 II 11 1 la it 11 4 f y j ahn won ont t your eye eyes attil pt spa til with joy joyl i k there a 1 smet bing w lb th turl curls t 6 good I 1 it e girl if j and aa oleo 1 fog each boy 1 NN r there ate ir raton hilred haired doll el es i and 11 all II ais of oil e es fi 1 to I 1 title tile folks christmas day dayl 1 NO fi there are re gy say horses prancing 11 V and addy jacks dag NJ and everything fitted for or play 1 from krit kris kringle Krit igla i chin U t fi icings a plenty of d in tn tin li and nd watches ind and dromi M noih nosh irk sk pa td nd TH A bitle doll d ai i 9 bed 11 N I 1 and sold ri will atty ry big drum druma N M from out ol 01 hll pock ts 1 M N hell lieu like take sugar lockets 5 and ands til all red white bit and bluel aue 1 11 and there them w 11 b kinei N for nice ittle 1 itle mus rn m us IMI and t ill in plenty lor for you U 1 I aunt clara in the th hur curseri seri january 1810 1870 t W rw r tal sunday entitlement cupl lenient funnies tun nies mickey mouse a foot high and true to tie to the last whisker I 1 may nay not inspire a young owner with of mother love but aho ho would refuse a celebrated movie moile star arm welcome elcome into the tile doll family circlet circle thus mickey mouse house and arazy not and the rollicking ne as farll ell an as tie tl e entire 1 alles a lea gang lone done up neatly in binck block elat and nine members of our gang modeled in III bisque and waiting alting for their owner to paint them as they should be painted are important ne newcomer comers in the doll world orld orphan ai at nie and and arid smithy nn am among a nun ber of comic strip celebrities reproduced as dolls this year hose rose hew ples done up in leh pink plush make a cud cuddly fly beorn dantoin for babas crib and from juvenile altera ture hare have been borr borrowed ovied A A milne s funny little bear N the I 1 loon aoh ooh featured in a num ber of toys this year and end the whole Il It aggedy family from btag gedy ann down ask asi anybody who ha hat outgrown childhood jint just which toy he remembers with the greatest satis faction and colvill you hlll find nine cabes out of turp that it wa was something very simple A art of block blocks a me rag doll or even so boi which bo be made himself hime elf out of spools or tin cane cona the real pleasure 1 afforded by this tyre type of toy pert tta lats in spite of mechanical aid ai d layettes in which aich thins from nurel nit bottle to safety pins la in provided I 1 syri however or have brought it up to date rind now pres prescript crit ue us with tha lia terni term toy toys and point out anew the lie eternal value of the plaything which macca the child the actor rather than the spectator vilich demands ingenuity rail calls forth infant exercises childish brains an I 1 muscle inus cU thus ne ae find aina ahaas in style all outdoor games and playthings from the bood old bat and ball to a mechanical pee saw so that it takes only one child to operate it tin annl I 1 teeter deliciously ll 11 41 and rind down without the peril of a sudden bump when lie the partner nt at tho other en on I 1 disembarks embarks thus also the permanent ni 14 peal pen of tool boxes paints and block blocks of 0 clean I 1 laper aper pencil boxes modeling ciny clay building bloc ki or any of the elaborate construction outfit outfits by witch the tile louth ful e engineer may build bildz a and sic li scrapers to I 1 ie to heart a content and thue thus tl it e deann I 1 predicted till this christmas for cowboy toots or toy revolvers in it holster on I 1 n wido wide belt by lie the small boy la Is on sullenly eul I 1 lenly meta morph ociel from the terror of tho the fifth grale to a cicro of the western modern child acl I 1 ivo ave alo added impetus this year to the bale sale of toys claimed as instruction cloaked as amuse ment like a eugne coati d pill may now bo be pleas in uny number of nhen hen tao instruct in nil til is for the tile very lery aang the educator moreover i described toye toys that thit aro are durable unter notional hantling ani ant abie all absolutely hygienic no 0 o more fragile dolls which the lusty infant will more than likely crush with its it first ecstatic ece bus hug io jo more blocks from which the bright color colors may be eucled by any tiny salve baby or metal toe tos with sharp lorner corners rr r cutting edges abe e te is of course some educational advantage in giving a piece of mechanism to nn fin older child especially if it care be taken to impress upon him its proper care and use for the lie child hose tastes bro fire already abill clentry developed to be evident the Christ nile shopper may choose from cut out puzzled com posed of hundreds of fascinating colored block blocks cut out falth a jigsaw which one labore labors to ailt together and lo 10 Is dewarde re warde by a lovely map or a famous master of painting I 1 there are sets of chemicals done up in 1 small vial vials and boxes with direction directions for con bining them to produce some of phenomena and construction sets by which the boy Is taught the principles of the cantilever bridge or of modern step ten back architecture and el electric ettric transformers which illich urge their possessor to make his own electric tos ramas whether they profess a many of taj newer games d to bo be of deduc value or merely claim to amuse all nevertheless have a certain tendency to quicken the mind and eye to train the muscles in automatic response moreover games have this year attained a tain definite stile atle appeal through the present popularity of adult lamex fc aines the fart that grownups grown ups are tire playing them thern has this year lent tent new attraction to many of the tile simplest of dill dren a games and rind made game playing in itself a sophisticated annl tin interesting thing to do just when an aej I 1 why tho current rage for adult guinea commence I 1 nobody seems to know some BO aa s it Is the result of the vast interest people as a hole take today in outdoor when tl it e baseball and football season reason Is over and it Is impossible to take tile weekly workout work out at a t golf or tennis what more natural than that people shout about I 1 resort to to their own indoor games in their own homes flerl adf tM officials CIRIS of the large compin its who tin have their cruises by filling in tl ti long n g di d daiy diy i of f w water a itei ioa water everywhere w with deck e ck a h butle no hoard board an ani I 1 lable games in the smoking room rooms are le at any tiny rate last winter people in search of amusement broke away from standard auction bridge through contract backgammon I 1 etame a rhal and arid first thing we knew pool tables appeared in to ahm basement tennis tables in the attic little guests were riven given their choice between bridge and club marcheel par chesl cheel und and tie larger department ani ant porting sporting good goods stores Ini installed flourishing adult game sections this consequently will be a christmas cf of many games children and elders alike silke will drag out such old tine favorites as clinch line anil and authors or amu aluie te themselves with the familiar electric questioner they will familiarize them selves with damons events in history by br a nev new game based on the history of of or a na loon and go into ct t avulsions excellent to offset a 11 heavy over an on cante gana called sorry it bj by Wice toro aall |