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Show TOYS MADE BY THE JUNIOR RED CROSS SAN FHANCISCO, Dec. 9. Quaint, Interesting toys and a wide range of useful gifts, manufactured by junior Red Cross auxiliaries under a plan originated or-iginated In the Pacific division and subsequently adopted by tho nntional organization, are being offered in Red Cross shops throughout tho Pacific division, di-vision, including California, Nevada and Arizona, it was announced at headquarters head-quarters here. This activity is expected to have these results: Provide an unusual and attractive showing of toys and gifts for Christmas Christ-mas time. Replace articles formerly imported from Germany. Clear thousands of dollars for humanitarian hu-manitarian work of the American Red Cross. Give school children practical training train-ing In the manual arts, develop their u, IVillvil ilium ai lioiiu itiiuwo, and demonstrate what they may do to aid the nation conservation program. The San Francisco exhibit Includes well built, harmoniously colored garden gar-den watering pots made, of old coffee cans, painted wooden toys in endless variety, checker boards and other games, as well as basketry work, rag rugs, candle sticks and other useful I gifts. Reconstruction work is made the koynotp of the collections of virtually all chapters. Soldiers and sailors, tanks, airplanes and battleships are still In evidence, but thero aro more Red Cross nurses, steamboats, houses and animals represented by the toys. Mrs. Henry A. Kluegal, director of Junior Red Cross work has striven to mako the work of practical educational education-al value to the childron in line with tho aims of tho National Educational association, asso-ciation, to which she carried early this year the plan developed in Los Angeles, Ange-les, Pasadena and Berkeley the latter part of 1917. Thorugh the central organization or-ganization tho work wos extended this year throughout the country. Only basic plans have been presented present-ed to tho Junior Red Cross auxiliaries and they havo been encouraged to develop de-velop variations according to their fancy. Tho result, Mrs. Kleugel reported, re-ported, had been to develop initiative among the children. The simpler gifts have been made by the primary classes and others, included were ingenious mechanical toys, manufactured by pupils pu-pils from the fourth grade up through the high schools. The youngsters have been instructed to keep account of materials used and this is expected to prove vnluable- experience ex-perience in bookkeeping. Salesmanship Salesman-ship methods taught in tho higher classes are to be used in marketing tho products. Christmas time articles asido from toys offered in the Red Cross shops by the junior members fall into five classes: Sewing Products: Handkerchiefs, towels, aprons, rag dolls, baby dresses, etc. Primary Manual Arts: Boxes, lanterns, lan-terns, bookmarks, envelopes, Christmas Christ-mas cards, favors. Cookery; Jellies, jams, canned products, prod-ucts, recipe books. Drawing: Posters, calendars, covers cov-ers for recipe books. Arts and Crafts: Trays, blotter pads, plcturo framos, swagger sticksv. Reports to Pacific divisional headquarters head-quarters Indicate that Red Cross shops in all the larger communities will havo representative displays. oo |