Show I TINY BUT COSTLY GIFTS I Boer War in Miniature and a I Complete Railroad Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas Toys A German pap paper r has hns collected some instances of oC l' l remarkable Christmas presents made In England One Ono of them was was was' wasa a n. menagerie of mechanical wild animals constructed for the tho children at nt a hit big country countr house An annex was to the lit house to accommodate the collection colle It consisted of several rooms nUll arid each h ar-h Was was an furnished to tu sent a scene In some distant part of the world One was an Arabian desert desert des des- ert crt another an nfl African forest and 1 another another an an- other othel an arctic glaciers glacier I Tho rho animals were all housed amid amicI appropriate surroundings They all moved more or less by clockwork work and andall all roared or bellowed or barked mute or less like their prototypes prototype All J were welO clad In the tho natural al skin of their kind kin and gave a lifelike ef- ef f feet The lion alone cost an arid and several other animals were almost l a as expensive re Tc bill for the HIt collection It Is said sahl exceeded Another notable Christmas Rent present Is described as time the gift gift of oC a III army o officer I to his sons son v vho wh ho ore oro also to pursue a n military carcer Tho The entire floor of a largo large room has ha been converted con Into a model of or one tome of ot tho the b battlefields of the Doe Boer war v in which the father participated There arc are hills anti and valleys villages farms fields woods and a river flowIng flowIng flow flow- ing with real water The Time whole Is tinted In natural colors The armies s are arc represented by 2600 2000 toy soldiers with sixty-five sixty toy canon cation and a complete completo com corn pleto 1100 transport h train Th The cost of the elaborate elaborate toy Is given as 1100 X A working model of N Nelsons Nelson's flagship hag flag ship the Victory Is IR quoted as nN costing cosing GOO and a n. man living at Wimbledon is said to have hove surprised his Imis year 11 old son with a n. whole railway H system with yards ards of or track anti and a complete com Pleto equipment of or rolling roiling stock at a acost acost acost cost of For somo sorno little girls a little house house- built to their measure was wn This Is to say the time dimensions bore hore the same relation to their height that aim in anor or ordinary house does to the statute stature of or mf adults There were six rooms completely equipped with childrens children's size furni- furni furniture ture turc even evon to 0 real brac a table talIe equipment and amid oil and wot water color r paintings The rime expense lle of building ull and amid furnishing the house exceeded tied Later Laler an aim automobile garage garag was a added ll d to accommodate two t to toy automobiles |