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Show Second-Hand Toy Business Booms Again Discarded Playthings Provide Pro-vide Yule Cheer for Unfortunate Throughout America thousands of public spirited citizens are partici-; pating in a toy industry from which they make no money, but will bring them a greater payment in satisfaction satisfac-tion on Christmas morning. That industry is the second-hand; toy business, an enterprise that flourishes in towns and cities throughout the country each November Novem-ber and December. In high school manual training rooms, Are stations and service club headquarters, discarded dis-carded playthings are being repaired re-paired and repainted. In some of these workshops new toys are being fashioned by ingenious ingen-ious amateurs. But in all of them, busy merchants and professional men are devoting their spare time to helping Santa Claus make sure he has gifts for every youngster on Christmas eve. Dolls Get New Dresses. Dolls which faced dusty abandonment aban-donment through their later years are being rejuvenated. Cleaning and new paint have brought back the first flush of youth to their shining cheeks and the early sparkle to ' their obediently open or closed eyes. New dresses have added much to their attractiveness. There is new fire in the big glass eyes of many a rocking horse, too, the long legs of whose original own- . er would now dangle on the floor. With new paint throwing his proud mane into brighter relief, he's as rollicking a steed prancing along the road to romance as ever he was. The procedure of these communi- ty volunteer organizations varies j from city to city. In larger towns. , policemen and firemen are rejuve-, nating toys collected by Boy and ! Girl Scouts. Smaller communities I depend on volunteer co-operation. Women make new dresses for dolls ! and men repair the toys. ' Christmas baskets for unfortu-: nates will have many presents other j than toys. Each year thousands of J communities And means of placing j candy, nuts, fruit and often all the ' makings for a Christmas dinner in ; each basket. Shoes, stockings, mit- tens and other apparel also finds a i ready market I So Disturbing Transient (in haystack) Say, Sam, do you feel a draft? Friend Yes, I must have left th pasture gate opL-n |