Show children L ina I 1 IC ii and old fashioned d toys ZA Z A Ve 4 01 ja ak 4 1 4 t 14 ke 4 re t J 46 I 1 14 are being beings even old fashioned hen it cornea comes to choosing toys they aren t up to data date and as a full of the modern spirit of 0 progress and luven invention tion as the toy makers believe th them m to be thus spoke one aho Is a eort sort of nt santa claus that Is to ho he has played the part at so many sun day school christinas christmas parties that ha he sometimes imagines he be Is growing cot cots tor to whiskers they daray the anino quaint ehn olm pie ol PU oli I fashioned taste as their grand fathers and grandmothers grard mothers when 11 the ere re children he continued alost of 0 them do anyhow every year the toy manufacturers breall loose with a new crop of automatic racing care cars ero submarines iro engines and nd kicking d donkeys if it the children were constructed on the same nervous clockwork clock work plan they would gato git old santa claud claus no rest unless he kept up alth ith all the modern inventions in stead tead of toy soldiers they would demand domand s mortar batteries Lat Latt teries erics and they the would not be eatla fled with co cos s but would demand that they have grees and div elve only certified milk and cream they would not accept a noahs ark rk unless it was as a combination of 9 the steamship lusitania Luel tania and a modern cement bungalow with sleeping bleeping porches por chee twin screw prop electric electrio searchlights clees apparatus econe chattel mortgage in fact 11 all II the comforts ot of ship and horne home corn com they would require mr noah to carry a pilot a e license as ell as a colle college go degree in natural history all the animals would have to be braind to do 0 tricks and poor noah family would hare have a u fine ane timo time herding them while ile wearing wooden and stove pipe hats fortunately children real children are not constructed teft way may they want ant their arks on the eld fashioned plan w whereby arely you liti or off ts aln 1 nd j find noah minus his lad biad and most of i he the anlin animals als trying to hobble on three I 1 logs begs f Aito automobiles mobiles in miniature with real upholstered seats and rubber tiree tires may fascinate a email small boy for a few low hours but better place your faith in a good old pattern rocking borso horse with saddle and aud stirrups and a mane and tad tall of real hair tb tim rocking boree horse 1 Is not going out of fashion by a long v aye ays and I 1 predict that in the horseless age if that ever comes our children will be jerking the inane mane of a wooden horsey wid whipping him on his hi painted flanks and trying to feed him film crackers also they 11 be falling off his birk and bumping their little foreheads la in the old fashioned nay may and boreck horsey bo recy will havo to ba thrashed and locked up in the clothes closet for tie bad behavior and aa as for doll youve got to give 1 them real baby dolla dolls and not grand ladles ladies in the latest tango gowns and hat hats for the laet last 60 cre or po doling i arents who are ell to do have bern trying the i of presenting their little eirls girls with waxen axen fash ion ton modelo model only to ind find the precious one cring for tho me rag baby of the laundre daughter children show the ho real mother instinct when hen hey they bourn the play child which Is too dresel drea and up to date I 1 havo one friend the father of P largo large end and lively family I 1 make him happy every christmas Chr lelma time by presenting bis his kida kids with ith a bunch of cheap mechanical toys after about half an hour of winding them up the be littan ones tire of the clicking vi wonders onders and return to their woolly dogs rubber doll dolls and other simple favorites that 13 1 when hen fathers fun begins lie its lc le slits on winding up ilm alm toys and tun un ning them thein all day sibly for the plea 11 of his oung he lie doss does nol not cease winding until the toys begin to get out of order and then ho he has bas jh bj additional cleasure asure of trying to repair them sometime sometimes t think that A man manufacturer ulso could make a fortune selling 1 toys 07 imi VZ ups cx ug bunch of adults busy it mechanical ch anical toys reminds qin mo of ur us alma time when tho the whole insists on an tailing little johnny to aa circus |