Show CHRISTMAS IS COMING tills is now a amy season for the local and retailers of christmas novelties he jobbers being busy filling order and the retailers in making their selection select ion of the goods that they will offer to the holiday trade As usually there is asi abundance of novelties the holiday trade bringing out many new and attractive designs in christinas goods the jobbers say that there seems to be no end to the orders this year and that they expect to be rushed right up until the day before christmas Christ mai dolls aie the big feature of the holiday trade and some very beautiful babies acif on tho market much to the discomfort of the little girls tsuto are that bey ore going to set a dolly but who cannot wait for christmas to gain possession tho dolls seem to be made of better material this year somo wing made wilh celluloid bodies which makes them much lighter in christmas tree trimmings there are many new novelties such as paper bells and festoons fes the of alie past week has caus pd a great demand for sleds and the retailers are stocking up in patica of a heavy demand ehlt year there seeli s to be a es demand for books than in former years and the jobbers on an average out of a order bill 15 Is spent tor holiday books among the local re there seems 0 o be more cut glass displayed tills year and some of the designs are new pec lally in water bottles plates etc the demand Is for mechanical toys of which there Is an endlers lar lety and so many new de agns that they ire impossible to describe in the windows of the stores holiday aie nov being displayed and along washington and twenty fifth street there is window after window filled with goods that suggest the holiday season af aci no christmas greens have been seen but bv the latter part 0 the week they will begin 10 arrive and from then on will he plenty la the market |