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Show LITTLE ONES WOULD INVENT Might Bo a Good Thing for Children If No Toys Could B Bought for Them. "No toys !" exclaims the fond end sympathetic mother, tragically, at tha mere mention of the toy business being be-ing one of those In danger of being abolished as unnecessary during wartime. war-time. Oh, yes, little mother, there would be toys but they would not hi store toys. In fact, the children wouM. Invent and make a great many of them themselves. Dame Nature won!J lend a hand, and you could help a bit, too I There is no doubt that children must have toys of some sort It Is the very cry of their little souls. "Ne-' cesslty is the mother of invention," so: with dire necessity staring them In1 the face a pressing demand with no1 supply they would begin to invent.. Moreover, being the work of their own little brains and hands, Buch toyi would . more easily please. Simp!e-i minded and contented types of children chil-dren would once again be the rule, not the exception. What ha3 the nursery plied high with the latest and most expensive toys produced? Nothing but that contradiction of nature tha child with nothing left to wish for! What is there to stimulate his brains or his Imagination? Everything has been thought out and Imagined fir him. No wonder at the age of seven or eight he finds life "stupid." But with nothing to play with would com the wonderful idea of making something. some-thing. Chicago News. |