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Show TOYS Or PHARAOH S CHILDREN. lthln the last f irty or fifty jcars toy making, aa every middle aged per-mm per-mm knows has been revolutionized Cone are the. simple delights of past gem rations even the ivpi tklni? doll, whKh was onie a wonder uu(!li.ient to attract Rll the neighbors la now a mere coininonplnie The rich maj pay aa much aa several hutidrc I dollurs lor dolls for their children, and meihunlml tos ate built on so uiit a stjle that the tioya of mllllonnlrta should their fathers suddenly become loor, might hang out their signs and go Into trade with no other equipment than that of the to shop Toa mn come and toys ma go but a fiw stay on forever A glil will have her doll and a bov will have hli weapons wea-pons nnd his bouts while both ry out for wagons and carriages anl animals Theat are lhe staple toa which nlwoja lave bun and nlwnya will bo, until ehll Iren ore liorn grown up Ixtavntlona show that Ihr children of undent l.gypt plrij'd with thim Just na do thooe of today What 18 mrre theao toys of thu or four thou-annd thou-annd yenia mat are Juat nliout aa good as those of half aa many hunrlnd yeara ago The rhlldren of the l'b unoha wero In the matter or toa nl nut na well off aa wen tho little ones of the Puritans It Is re mtf InrlLrd that tho ut of Inv making Iiiib become ao elubmate afar remaining for gmciatlon after generation almost stations!) Dolls nnd animals were nit out for young I3gpt and queet bonta wero fashioned with the greatest nire At least one clabnrili ie Ian i hair with a hidy Inside who can bn taken out has been dug up This however Is less em lent thnn the drlls and dates back onl) to the Itoinnn Invasion of I'gvpt H was the custom to burv a r hlld s toa In Its gi ive thniasntiila of eara nfterwnrd to be dug up nnd put In Inu-aeuma Inu-aeuma but not It la noted without a algh Tor the llttlo life thai went out ages ago or for the weeping mother whose hands pi n eil her dirlltiR's to besl It bla tiny !od Not onl) In regard to tovs were the ehll Iran of nn.li.nt I gvpt like those of toll) but the) wero told sli rles admit adm-it u In those which belli put ehll lien to bed nowadn)s pnp)rus hna been found wbli h gives some of theso ato-rles ato-rles It tella lalea of anlannls and treea that talk"d with men, nnd nf fairies tint fori told evil nt the blitb of a I rlnce much na twentieth century children chil-dren hear them nunc I'gypt nt long ngo woull open lla ejea at tho mirvela of todn) but turnerl Into a toy shop or with a volume vol-ume of fnlry tile It woull ilnl so many obi frlenda that nni lent Tgypt mil outtg America would seem to be only a step npnrt |