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Show BERLIN CHILDREN GAZE LONGINGLY AT TOYS; IjBjjBl BERLIN. Dec. 1". (By the Asso- IjjKll elated Preas). The Christmas trade jSH In Gerlin which was at one time great- er than any season during the ysar, jWSi upto the present time haa left huge jB stores of toys and other articles vlr- tually intact on the shelves, accord-1 tJs3B lng to the managers of the city's larg- ,!15B cst department stores. The manager ",tQ of the toy department In one stor said. kMH "Only the rich can afford our wares 4ft this year. Here is a rocking horse for j loifll K marks, which sold before the wai j for sixty marks It would cost a work-faEE work-faEE man his month's salary. Toy animals H sell from fifty pfennings up to 10,- lB 000 marks, but very few persons are jaH buying them. The people ure hesltat- ing even over spending one mark on I jQH something that, is useless. They arc I 3jjS saving their money for food and 1 ijH clothes. twSfi Many children in the crowds te be I seen in and outside the stores, gazing B- longingly at the displays of every con- cclvable kind of plaything. |