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Show yy A HOM the rush and hustle of buj J ' Aiik'Hcaii city street, nil al 3 thlrt scmon 'f the year with I Chi M ma shoppers, '" h "hi ft 4l'-"V. Nuremberg, In Germany, where Hf llm (iirlMma spirit lnls the 1 yi-nr around, where Hunt Clan ' spend liltt working month for the Joy of the. worM's children surely the step In lint tcHi great fur (In Imagination nor It goal uninteresting a study. ('111110 out of your crowded streets, your 'nl packed uliircK, inv ofT fcr the Htm IhIdk your bri'aflilfft rliaxn nfl -r that trouhli'Nitme "Int't 'ri'Knt," iniJ turn Into (lie (juli-t ikIIii (rt't, th trn-Kiilnr hilly iaKHKn ilv'tHllt(l by hoimo oM-r t!inn anything any-thing In tlu ol.lHt prls of thi fnlU-.l 8Ih'. HdUHtt rlHi-8 above houai full of a lilmory tin rnnn-tlo rnnn-tlo aa th rouil'at miiimlon of our city tr'tii. yt trnirkt'U by a fcliupllclty antl alnt?le h'art-d-ih'hk aatliltnn' iirvaeut III IIiIiikn niodi-m. It la h-ro tbat the toya are niailx which you buy In your horns acroMM the ana. U-r In the iuktnei of thn un-mojcrii, un-mojcrii, th iilaythliiRH aro limmtcl and i.crfi'ftcd for your roatlraa. buojant chlldrHii. You read "Made In CJiTiniiny" with a nkcpilcul tilt of the .yebrow, but tbo fact rcinalna tbat by far the '.JLa-. i (J ;!tt; sii : -y, . 1 ' rnjfwSA- Y- . : ' . ... Arrjen:r ihf JVms of toy-" toy-" I They grow uV midst of It, allr1BQr hereditary Ideaa are colored by It, the history of the city speaks of It. Inside of half a dozen doz-en blocks you have trains, up-to-date hotels, ho-tels, electricity, motor cars, Parisian frocks, primitive carts drawn by hugs mastiffs, funny tucked away Inns near the market place full of peasant women In wide black silk aprons t m' -l inter of all ifjyr -mruutactured N. 7i iMfH Bli"Vg. y The ancient feudal city, around which cluster (he grim tradltloua of the Inquisition and the thrllliug epic of the times of Charles V., has for four hundred years or more been tho center of the children's fairyland. It has been and Is the nucleus of ChrlHtiraa happiness for the youth of every place In the Occident, and Its charm la the perpetual one of joyous creation which delights de-lights In planning the amusement of little people. In the factories they will tell you that 72,000,-4)00 72,000,-4)00 marks- (118.000,000) worth of pleasure Is sent out from Nuremberg every year, and that $5,500,000 of this export Is for tho benefit of Young America. Only a few years ago all of the onceasary labor for thla immense production was done by hand, and much of the finishing and fine last touches are performed by special artists. Even now lit the factories the old spirit of an almost consecrated enthusiasm lives and Is evident evi-dent In tho Interest of the village artisans for tbelr craft. Not merely the reason of bread and butter goca toward the making of thoso marvelous marvel-ous walking dolls, those phenomenal speaJtlng picture books, those thousand and one games that have called for all the Imaginative aa well as practical genius of these honest German peasant folk. Rathor has their unique Industry called for and developed in them a romance, a sensitiveness of perception which Is remarkable. Follow the lurching, worn curves of the Al-trecbt Al-trecbt l)urerstrasse, and you come to one of the many homes of thla Nuremberg aplrlt In a miniature min-iature red loofed bouse, wedged In among a hundred hun-dred squat brown huts, live two old men broth-rs, broth-rs, of sixty-five and seventy whose white lioa.ls are rt nstantly bent over small clrclea of wood shaping, paring, carving, painting. All day they sit there, sometimes all nltjht, tolling over the delicately ornamented dolls' dishes which perhaps you have bought, as a small loRlgnlflennt thing, just this afternoon for your small daughter's tree. You linked at them t-arelesily; they were not especially orlRtnal or attractive, ami you shoved them into jemr bag w ith a half hesitating accept-.ance, accept-.ance, thinking that maybe they would please capricious ca-pricious Iiorolhy. How could you know that back fa tho vlllaco of Alwas Christmas old hands had fashion d thoi-e trhlal platt s and pitchers, old yes had ttru!nd with loving anxiety ov r those fln tract-ries of columbine, and old hearts had wanned m-r those completed trtnVs with the saint) thrill of the iiiaht r pninirr over hi bet? lint t his was true. Indeed, nearly all of the sln'l' vwmii! n toys art- couxtructed by band. In aol-ie huniUe volki.tiiiu.'.e w tilth R-s to inuke up the agKreyate creative force of Santa Clans' workshop. Tale the liny sts of soldiers, t'i .lull's chairs and tables, the painted wooden animals ani-mals whoso reallKiu U R delight to all children, actual or grown up. Theo are faslihuud in homes, sometimes by the e Torts of whole families, fam-ilies, but wont often by children themeles SUteen la the sge limit for child labor in the factories, but no young person Is prohibited from assisting his parents at borne, provided he spends the required period of time at school. So that many of those playthings which give most happiness hap-piness to the children of America bate been made by the children of Nuremberg And If battles must work, what work could one find for tbmrr more appropriate or more pleasurable than and snowy white caps crumbly fountains and a castle with a secret passage. All the elements of the fascinating past and the strangely progressive present within a stone's throw of each other. The realisation of all that Nuremberg has been and has undergone comes to one most vividly as one stands looking down Into the Schloss well 650 feet deep, where prisoners used to come to fetch water. Underground therr passage led frora the dungeona to thla unlit circular pool, for state prisoners pris-oners were never permitted to see the light, and the hollow splash of the water which the attendant attend-ant drops Into the well seems to re echo, after an interminable half-minute, the hopeless pilgrimage pilgrim-age of those countless victims of medieval fanaticism. fanat-icism. Such Is the potency of the ended. While the vitality of the occurring emphasltee Itself, not far off. In one of the dorens of toy factories, whose very machinery whirs modernity, men. women and children that la. children over six-ten six-ten are massed Into this building, alt Intent on the one Ides, the creation of better and newer and more wonderful toys for everyone's children. In everyone's country. It Is seldom the Industrial planet can boast of a broader ambition than this of the crattsnien of Nuremberg. To bring the greatest possible, amount of pkasure, bghlmate and often educative pleasure, pleas-ure, to growing, active minds is surely an aim worthy of the finest art In the world. It even sVems as though the thought hack of the toys should surround them wlih a dieper meaning as gifts this Chritt .iastlde, since the added gift the biggest gift lies In the patient interested Invention Inven-tion and a complliihment of which they are the exponent. As for the Inventors, strictly speaking, their reward iei ins i:-. I. : it tlinal according to our standards. stand-ards. Th-t "boss" controls Id as s well as materia! mate-ria! of out put, mid It I chiefly 10 bis profit that new Inventions In tof.md rdnu:id. The man or woman who flmt thinks of or Improves upon some plaifHtiK Rets a very small p r cent, of the Income In-come from It. To our new world standard of commerce it seema sttange that the originator should reeelvo such scant recognition and that without grumbling. Wry. very few Nuremberg toymskers have ever grown rich over their IngenUmsness. It Is true that Ideaa as well as toya In Germany sell for double what they sold for eight year ago, even! On the other band the price of living has gone up appreciably, and what would have seemed a large purchase price then is only moderate now. The staff f artists employed by the Nuremberg Nurem-berg factory boss Is In Itself a not inconsldrahl expense, and many a "quiet charity la undertaken by these men who at home would be absorbed In getting rich. Ia the shop of Friti Muller are i various small kitchen gardens, carved and painted by a poor man and his slater after their regular working hours, and bought by Mr. Muller at high rates as his pet philanthropy. In this shop, now 100 years old, are seen all of the most novel ot the toy-village playthings. The store waa crowded with nvre children over thirty than under thirteen, thir-teen, and absorbed for hours over the clever and quaint attractions. The doll's house of Nuremberg leaves nothing to be desired. Not enly the usual rooms of a conventional con-ventional menage are found In It, but conservatories conserva-tories with miniature orchids, fountains and watering wa-tering cans; school rooms with tiny desks, a schoolmaster, very stern, with goggles and ruler, and children In aprons and carrying slates, the latter a sixteenth of an inch big; fields ot flowers for the back yard and a swing for the smallest doll. In all Gel man art, of which toy making Is by no means an Insignificant department, perfection of detail has always been the salient feature. Every Ev-ery phase of home life Is reproduced In micro scoplc furm In German toyland, even down to thi wee pairs of hand knitted stockings and sweaters the hob nailed shoes snd blue blouses which mak up the wardrobe of the voiks boy and girl. The tourist season la a second Christmas fot Nuremberg people, and they sell as many playthings play-things In the one period as the ether. An inter estlng point brought to light by this fact Is ths early differentiation of the American and European Euro-pean individuality, which showa Itself In choice ol games an. I pastimes. They say in the shops that an American child is Invariably fascinated over the mechanical and complicated, that be finds In tense interest In mastering the technicalities evet of playing, while the European child likes a aim pl-r but brllllmtly colored toy, cherishing often I curious rentlment for traditional objects such ai typify oi.j world conservatism. They are blesed with imagination, these vll lag iieor.i,., nn.! they aro not ashamed of show Ing O.elr simplicity of spirit. Their minis an bound up in the heritage of centuries. The trag edles of their city's hlctory wind about the tort they make, breathing Into the wood a charaeteris tic vitality the vitality that cornea of centurtet of striving, of centuries of patient achievement As you alt In a swirl f red ribbon and foam plr, "doing up" your Chrlstmaa presents, re member that many of them have come from this quaint little Village of Always Christmas. I may add to your holiday happiness to know thai no pleasure which the toya may bring can bi greater than the pleasure ot those who made thern and that no good will of yours can outdo the quia sincerity of purpose with which the simple pe'pl of Nuremberg nave given their part toward thii season of the universal gift |