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Show LITTLE ONES WOULD INVENT Might Be a Good Thing for Children If No Toys Could Be Bought for Them. "No toys !" exclaims the fond and ympathet!c mother, tragically, at the mere mention of the toy business be-ing 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 be store toys. In fact, the children would Invent and make a great many of them themselves. Dame Nature would 3end a hand, and you could help a bit, too ! There is no doubt that children must have toys of some sort it Is, the very cry of their little souls. "Ne-; cessity is the mother of invention," so with dire necessity staring them la the face a pressing demand with no supply they would begin to invent. Jiforeover, being the work of their own. little brains and hands, such toys would more easily please. Simple-minded Simple-minded and contented types of children chil-dren would once again be the rule, not the exception. What has the nursery piled high with the latest and most, expensive toys produced? Nothing but that contradiction of nature the child with nothing left to wish for! Whnt Is there to stimulate his brains or his imagination? Everything has been thought out and Imagined for Turn. No wonder at the age of seven -or eight he finds life "stupid." But with nothing to play with, would come -the wonderful Idea of making some-, some-, -thing. Chicago News. |