Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-26 | Page 12 | A Toy Fountain

A TOY FOUNTAIN- "T3 Water Spouts Up Continuously by Use of Siphon. If the children of a generation atro were set down In a nursery of today they would doubtless h overcome with wonder. Indeed, even their parents) would not understand th mechiinlm of many j of the wonderful tops that amuse tho youojr&teru of modern America. mont; tbe.HC elaborate playthlnija Is something new in the way of a toy fountain designed de-signed by a Missouri man. This device consists of a toy house with a front j yard. In the center of the yard, wllb PLEASING l OR CHILDREN. tbe walk sweeping around it. Is a foon-talo, foon-talo, which plays continuously through the use of the siphon principle. The tank io in the house nnd the water which spouts from the fountain Is caught In the basin of the latter and tlows back into the tank, which baa a lift pump attached. at-tached. The siphon, the principle of which Is well known, aDd would have been understood by tbe old timers before mentioned, keeps replenishing the supply of water as fast as it flows its coarse.