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Show ART AND SCIENCE IN TOYS Playthings for the Kiddies Necessar to the Proper Conduct of Their Society. WHILE the making of toys Is an art that is probably practically as old as the world itself, it has been only within recent years that science has bothered Itself about them. Less than half a century ago they were regarded re-garded merely as playthings amusing amus-ing diversions for children that were by no means necessary to their well-being. well-being. Today, however, science insists that there Is a well-defined philosophy underlying the use of toys ; that they are the tools with which the little ones ply their trade; the para'phernalla necessary nec-essary to the proper conduct of their society; that dolls, for example, are more to them than the associates that help to entertain them in that they aid them in the attainment of their mental growth by stimulating the natural emotions which must be experienced ex-perienced in later life. Whether this theory of the scientists Is correct or not, the fact remains that children have always had the playthings play-things requisite for their imitations of the domestic life and business affairs of older people; that they have always required their elders to provide them with such Inventions, and that, when they could not obtain these toys by any other means they themselves have sought and found objects that might be made to suit their purposes. Even the somnolent middle Ages did not put an end to their pastimes. The toys in which they found diversion may '.lave been more simple, but, as they met the demands of nature, they played their allotted part in the scheme of human development. Public Opinion. |