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Show JAPANESE WORKSHOPS SEND TOYS TO AMERICA (Bj Internatlpnal jfesrt Service.) TACOMA, Wash. Pec. '-' Tnfl Santa Claus of the lar-awuv RMns countrv has been displaced in these puns by the iiu.itnt Utile Ortontal St. Nicholas Ol the Jiipiiu-c'. I'm social weeks Japanese liners and freighters have been shipping Japanese toys to this port for dlsserninatlon among the Children of the northwest. The first big .shipment arrived a lew lavs nc;o aboard a giant Japanese liner bearing 1 1 caSss ol Tap tiiese toys Bven the cases appear lo be Nippon -OSt toys, being bound in strips of bamboo bam-boo and scented straw. The aUra tlvely and daintily made include ev.iv Imaginable plaything from a baby's rattle to an aeroplane. Seeral hundred poundo of the playthings play-things consist of ten soldiers- The Japanese loytuakers proved them-aelvoa them-aelvoa either good Rale3men or perhaps adepts at child diplomacy by giving tion- Un .soldiers meri,;in uniforms. |