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Show llovlands Neutrality Violatd ilfl mwm mm' M E R R I E CHRISTMASVlLLiE Via Wireless to Father's Purse). JuH Before Christmas. Refugees from Kris Kimkle Island and Reindeer Rein-deer it. declare the neutralitj of ToyljiniJ has been violated and n hostile army oi German Infantrymen, Infan-trymen, accompanied by artillerymen artillery-men using twenty-Inch pun assisted assist-ed by the British Navy, have driven the Teddy Bear, Fuzzy Wuy and other old favorites out of the pack of Santa Clans, and forced them to retreat with heavy losses, When last seen Old General Wooly Sheep was taking steps witn bis seven league boots the direction di-rection of the woods where he Is appealing to childhood to come to his rescue, Messages Crom various department Btor.es, children a shops and novelty houses alio soldiers of V all kinds have invested the 'nun- ters, and It matters not what the sympathies of the buyers may be. be can pet soldiers of any nationality nation-ality for the Christmas stocking There are Belgian lan r. French Zouaves. Turcos. Hindoos. Cossacks. Scottish Highlanders, Hungarians, Serbs Turks, Austrians. Germans. English. Canadians Bohemians to be bad in wood, metal and paper I types. In addition all the equipment for a regular battle can be found on the counters. Old-time panics report re-port they have withdrawn Within their defenses and the conditions are satisfactory all a Ion ,- the line from the kindergarten panics to the brand new 'Made in America" toys. Dolls houses are still on sale and contend that t.ie houses and the dcdls both have won succeses by a mastcrlv retreat. But an exclusive dispatch from the heart of the shopping district declares that shoppers hae I. ecu seer, for several weeks oepartinp from the toy centers with their pockets full of armament with which they intend to I. II the stockings stock-ings i.f their children. Some of these military toys were made in Germany, the land f toys, But many ot them have hren made In A m err i a. k - m mi i , ill MM i I "BBBBSSSl vate ten points. Larger rapid fire puns of metal, shooting miliar balls with consld'-r-able Velocity, may De had for $1 and and a siege gun with a lever Which lli'-s i 1-inch cor k is priced at .". cents. One firm is offerlnp a war gante called ' Maneuvers," based on rudimentary rudi-mentary military strategy. The tdea is new and interesting, but the game is top complicated for the younger hilar en. in' store is showing a motor truck, driven OJ a spring mechanism, mechan-ism, provided with metal soldier passengers and hauling a toy cannon can-non Another shows a tin Zeppelin which travels on a cord stretched across the room. The novelty of this toy is an automatic device which drops bomb on the nursery towns and troops belOM A submarine, sub-marine, christened the "U-V dives and travel"-- rapidly in water. All these are $1 each. A mom Intelligent toy for older boys is the monoplane or dying boat in knockdown form. Blueprints to guide in putting It together arc furnished fur-nished Some of the planes are armored. And the reallv 11 , beinc driven by heavy rubber l ands. They cost from 5 4 to $25. TIip lovmakets have neglected the Bed c ross and the Belgian relief work, possibly because the Idea is hardly virile enough to appeal to the children. Neither have they had time tn pr oduce the i estrUCtlOn of R norms In tame form. I HERN N TOY FACTORIES RECEIVE GREAT I s t Toy factories In America have received re-ceived a great boost from the European Eu-ropean War. According to uriof fi tal communications which have passed censor, several American concerns con-cerns pave orders to enlarge their plans for Christmas toys as soon a they learned Germany had declared war on Fiance. They realized there would be a better market for toys in America than there ever has been because the old supply points had been cut off American buyers In Germany, the land of toys, were in Europe making purchases when SI BBaV nKLjjEfln iss At latest returns martial law is expected to be declared before Christmas Day Is over. For 50 cents a machine pun, eight inches from barrel to breech, and four soldiers, sol-diers, may be had at any shop A magazine holds a dozen wooden Slugs, tired by the turning of a crank. A soldier counts five points. The Brst player to put twenty men out of action wins the game. 1 be whole is a realistic imitation of the mitrailleuse. This is a domestic product. The utile firm puts out a new war game called ' Sharpshooters, " in which the weapon Is a revolver with six chambers, tiring wood slugs. The players use the gun in turn. An officer counts twenty and a orl- the war broke out. As soon as they could get awav they came to America. Amer-ica. Tin ir purchases which were due to arrive In September and October ame as late as November and some have not vet arrived and probably never will come. The buyers for the toy stores and for the toy departments de-partments of department stores then placed orders with the manufacturers manu-facturers In this country. They filled their counters with American-made American-made toys and although some of the foreign product has filtered through to America, the children this year will play with many American toys. Tin- manufacture uf military toys has won the Iron Cross in Germany. Tovmaking Is a comparatively modern mod-ern Industry In this country children chil-dren were given home-made toys, such as rag dolls, in the early days, The valu- of great events in the manufacture of toys was lust taken advantage of in Germany. The Germans saw- that children would play at what their elders wen- talking talk-ing about. When a nation is at war the children play war. The war of 1912 saw the Introduction of military toys in Amen1 a. When the German toy manufacturers learned that America and England wen at war they manufactured lend soldiers with red coats to represent rep-resent the British. To oppose them they had blm -coated soldiers to represent rep-resent the Americans The Americans Ameri-cans were provided with toy cannon can-non which would roll a lead ball over the floor and knock over the British soldiers. These were shipped W m "illfi IBI1 u Small Boy Discovers Soldiers Concealed in His Mother's Wardrobe (From Our Special Corespondent Corespond-ent at the Front ) ST. KICHOLASOVITCH, Dec, 24 (S::',0 a, m.). Johnny Jones and his sister Sue discovered great stores of ammunition, together to-gether with three armies of Russians, Rus-sians, four corps of Germans, three squadrons of the British Navy, eighteen battalions of Belgian Bel-gian infantry and hordes of Japanese, Jap-anese, all flying the flap of Anil An-il or i , i oncealed in mother's w rd-robe. rd-robe. Plans were found In possession posses-sion of th- generals, showing they were planning to take p OS-si OS-si 1 1 n of the tree on Christmas Eve While the children were inspecting in-specting the soldiers" footwear, their mother found them. "Get out of here," she cried. She turned the children over (deleted by censor). to America and sold In ;.rrcut quantities. quan-tities. In England the British were provided pro-vided with the cannon so they i ould shoot the Americans and also shoot the French who at that time were lighting the English. This idea of making toys according accord-ing to the news events was carried out when the Teddy Bear was tir-t created. The Idea originated with the Germans when Roosevelt was familiarly known all over the United States as Teddy. With the German desire to make what the buyers want came the first Teddy Bears. They were a great SUCC0SS in America. For South America the : Hfcv -M-51 a bild will lov. P ' VJ until lis wool is worn to the wood- more q il kly than ol tl nstruc- Among the constructive play-d play-d this yeai I a box of , fqM V. I.b b i r ' I ' ' b. r tO -.S ' ' ' ' ' ir v. 1 1 ni m i 1 1 - houses, tal chairs, i Jfa'- i! H tures mini ViMi sheep .ire among V..'MBBI HI I'" things ' 9 combrning tin b. mm P - -, Germans make the toy that sells there. In the I'nited States we have advanced to the point whero wc will make what we want ourselves. our-selves. When we can advance to the point where wc will make what Ule pcopb of the South American countries want we can compete successfully for their trade, whether wheth-er It be In substantial goods or mere toys. How the news of the day figures in the toys can be shown in the Panama Canal digger. That is an American toy. Children were interested in-terested in the Panama Canal so the digger was created. It was a success from the start. It still Is sold and is rpilte an adjuet to the sand pile. It is such a simple toy that children can get lots of fun out of It. Since the success of the kindergarten kinder-garten has been so pronounced, and since Madame Montesorrl has urged that children should hao constructive toys, American manu-faeturers manu-faeturers have turned their attention atten-tion lo the making of constructive toys. That was carried OUt by the Germans In the making of building build-ing blocks. Children con play with building blocks and entertain themselves them-selves longer than if they have a the making of twenty devices. More expensive sets have plans for making seventy-five various structure. struc-ture. The children will work for hours over these devices and enjoy themselves them-selves because their brains are active. These kind of playthings are considered the best for mothers with "nerves." They do away with the noise of trumpets, drums, trains and slegv artillery. Children's modelling Clay Is another an-other of the constructive things children have been playing with. Teddy Bear and Fuzzy I Wuzzy Monkey I Take to the Woods to I Make Room for a Battleship Fleet and I Soldiers With 20- I Inch Gun in Christma I Stocking I il STTn-Trrrr iiii mmi m i. MtIl:'-8 While the Idea Is not new better Clay Is being put on the market this ypar than ever. The clay has an advantage ad-vantage over tho sand pile In that it will not sift on the floor when it Is played with in the house. Along with these toys is the old time doll for the girls, the game of marbles for the boys and the hobby h'orse for both boys and girls. All of these have had their sale this season, for there arc mothers and fathers who are peace advocates advo-cates 'and they will not allow their children to have the military ac-couterments. ac-couterments. Other parents will buy anything for their children if they think it will give them pleasure. pleas-ure. They think the military toys are harmless and according to well n ol hen I lea teil illsnntehes flieSA parents have surreptitiously lent aid and comfort to the invaders and have smuggled them into their homes where they have hidden them securely against the time when St. Nicholas is supposed to hang them oa the tree or put them In the stockings. Well known women high in American society have been openly open-ly accused of assisting the Tcryland Confederacy of Allies and Austro-Germans Austro-Germans Into the homes under over of night when the children were asleep.. Couriers disguised as delivery boys have helped the t I fight in? men across the thresholds H of the homes done up in bundles to look like dry goods. Ends .Yon-Resistance, C About 17H Great Britain was at )' ' war v.ith Spain and France. Among I;,. the American colonies, Pennsylva-nia Pennsylva-nia was the only one that was' ab-olutely ab-olutely defenseless. The Quaker assembly refused to pass a militia I; . . law, and there was no reason why the enemies of the mother country H could not sail up the Delaware if land a force and devastate tho commonwealth. Benjamin Franklin was Just com- lng Into public life. He had t ( hanged the old night watchman r system into a reflated Dollea f force. formed a volunteer flro brigade, founded a public library and established the Philosophical Society. He was determined that Pennsylvania should no longer bo defenseless the doctrine of non-resistance non-resistance to the contrary notwith- I standing. After publishing a pamphlet, entitled "Plain Truth," i e ' ailed a meeting ol the younger 1 citizens of Philadelphia, harangued 1 them on the Impending oblltera- I tion of the city by the Spaniards and French, called for volunteers and then and there raised a regi- j ment of 1,200 men. Within a very j brief period adjacent places con-tributed con-tributed their quota, and Pennsyl-vanla Pennsyl-vanla had n organised, drilled and aCcoutered mtlltla lo.ooo strong. When it came to providing artil-lery artil-lery Franklin's ingenuity again sufficed. By means of a lottery, enough money was raised to con-struct con-struct fortifications and purchase cannon, some from Boston and some from England. These were deemed insufficient. Franklin headed a committee to wait upon t Governor Clinton and borrow ad-dltional ad-dltional guns. Clinton refused to lend, but the same night at dinner he softened by degrees under the Influences of Madeira that with bumper he offered Pennsyl- vanlS the loan of more and more I artillery, until his proffer reached 1 eighteen mounted cannon, which dulj arrived in this city. That was 17 0 years ago. Ten thousand men, supported by artil-lery, artil-lery, was not considered more than adequate for the defense of the 9m sparsely populated commonwealth. Man for nunn, by hardiness and re-sourcef re-sourcef ulness. the rank and file must have been much above the level of the paid soldiery of Eu-ri'pc. Eu-ri'pc. as the subsequent Revolu- : tlonary War amply demonstrated. In view of the fact that there are nations? today that consider no 1 treaty binding, who can wonder If our military experts are seriously alarmed over the irnpreparednesj Of the I'nited States even for a de-fenstve de-fenstve war? When the armies now in the field in the European strife are counted in units of a million. our regular and militia combined are a pitiful handful, and would 'ie swept from the field in an engage-ment engage-ment that Is called only a skirmish on the scale in which wars ure con, ducted today. j ! I I |