The New York herald., 1878-12-15
Where the Fairy Godnohsrs Of Gotham Go
for The Good Things
TOYS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
Fancy Articles in Wood, Metal. Leather and LaSs---KnEk
~ KnSkS and Dress Goods.

ls LulliOu OI people WuAuerluB aDOut
You may call it Christmas time. the great festival
OF Santa Claus, you may. with cynical touch, say
it is the time for giving presents that money you
care about and for receiving presents that you don't
about at all; but all the same it is the season
when old and young go into Fairyland Not
because you are old and crusty shall you
be excused; not because you young
and gushing shall you be denied. You and
I know, and, without risk of betrayng
any secret it be said that Santa Claus does not
come down the chimney. The very babies nowadays
that hang up their stockings know it is all make be-
lieve, but, nevertheless. they hang them up. They
tell you that Cinderella is only mutated Aryan
sun myth, but yet they cannot quite shake off the
belief in q fairy godmother. The primeva man stirs
in to that extent that though the mystery has be-
como myth to our heads. 1t has some wonderful
hold on our hearts. Our hearts have quick way Of
leaping back to the time when the mystery rev.
erenced when the gifts from magic land watched
for in hopeful spirit that cannot now be recreated
for the greater chances of le and all take part
in the rites of Santa Claus and lay their offerings
his altar in homes to if the light Of his eyes
cannot shine for a moment in our souls.
THE HOLIDAY PILGRIMS
Up and down Broadway all day long and far into
the evenings for ten days to come the pilgrims to
Fairyland will throng and overflow into Fourteenth
street and up the avenues seeking their offer
ings. Good humored pilgrims. generous pilgrims.
but very wide awake During the rest Of the year the
houses that line the streets may be called stores
among ourselves paatial homes of business if
describing them for the benefit of benighted
country folk or foreigners but now they are all
shrines of Santa Claus. OF course you cannot get
your offerings unless you have equivalent in the
nature OF lucre to exchange for the but that should
vtc$ ro1, tnftts r1or and
give too much.
LESSON IN ECONOMY.
They say that Americans abroad have made travel
ling ruinously expensive, because they always put
too much in the ever open hands of hotel keepers
and tradespeope and asked for the change but
have not observed that this ia true Of Americans
at home. 1t may have been positive pleasure to
some people to pay too much but it is nothing to
the pleasure Of thinking that have the best OF
bargain. Do not imagine that the reverent pagans
who went down to Ephesus to buy silver shrines for
Diana" "whom all Asia and the world worshippeth /"
of the slversmith Demetrus or others of his craft
did not chatter before closing their bargains. Those
not the days of competition, where over the
doors could be the legend "All goods marked in
plain prices" And no doubt the church committees
of the period chucked for all their piety
over their sacred treasures IL they thought they
several drachmas ahead of Demetrus and his
brethren. Inasmuch as their joy over sharp trade
did not interfere with their devotion to the chaste
Diana. SO the delight ut our Christmas gifts being
cheap but adds another thrill to the joy of giving;
in fact occasionally it is the only thrill in the entire
process. Mother and father Uncle and aunt and
bosom friend therefore, want to know where to 90
for their gifts in the frat place. and next where they
can get them cheapest. There many to be
bonght. You begin with the toys for the children
pyp beyonu TINT brinqs wider fel lla
for purchase through the ornamental. the fanciful
and the useful until you find that they only
limited by the capacity to pay.
WORLD.
Let us begin at toys. where we began ourselves SO
long ago for they are the gates of Fairyland.
l,ess me- how they have changed this part OF the
magic country. We used to he happy at seeing long
strings Of wooden dolls hanging in strings. and few
drums and Noahs arks, and wooden soldiers and u
great hobby horse or two with tin trumpet here
aud there. Come with us into Schwarzs toy bazaar.
at No. 7G5 Broadway, into the home OF the multi
farous Macy at Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue;
into the equally widc-reaching Ehrichs. Eighth
avenue and Twenty street into the far-grasp-
into the home OF Kinney, at No. 241 Sixth ave-
nue..
Talk about dolls! Here enough of them TO fill
all the seats ut the Academy of Music and leave hardly
any standing room beside And II You think they
would not a thoroughly first class audience you
arc mistaken. You would think, perhaps. that you
were 10 king at people through the wrong end Of
opera glass but that s all-such pretty faces such
carefully dressed hair. such perfect fitting robes so
exact In details and rich In texture that we feel
sorry our grcat-grandmothcrs could not have seen
their dolls were. Mr.. Schwarz will sell You
one OF these lifcke things all the way
from 80 to s25 and II you would like the trouble OF
dressing them he let you have them from So 50 to
si4. Accommodating Macy. oblgng Enrich or
shearer and viii earry YOU lust as hah mn ' ss
schwarz. They will all show you rag dolls, white
dolls. black dolls, crying baby dolls walking dolls
aud talking dolls and IL the children. yours your
neighbours dear, destructive beings you buy,
oven at great A. I. Stewart Co.'s. the flexible,
ward. You get dolls cheap that you would
feel tempted to order gross or so dear that you
would scarcely like to present to every hundred
children Of your acquaintance.
DOLL FURNITURE.
But the doll is only the grand centre whence
ra,iiate thousand cunning extravagances. There IN
the dolls wardrobe that these foreseeing magieians
have ready for you, with bonncts and jupes
and dresses; there are Saratoga trunks for dolls
clothes Then there dolls houses. complete from
attic to bascment doll stores in every line of bust
ness furniture sets in gilt ut ST. in schwarzs. and
little chamber sets in tin, three pieces, for twenty Ave
cents with dolls scales for half dollar. There
doll sets tor parors, libraries Kitchens and bedrooms;
tea aud dinner sets in china and metal. At Macys
you may whole interiors filed with doll company.
aud their windows attract crowds because OF the i'm
portant from life in doll land there presented
PERFORMING
Beyond these you can soar up into the mechanical
region OF moving and performing dolls Here prices
are fancy. You can see Madame de Pompadour at
her toilet, a sculptor at work upon hi- statue. or
acrobais or juggers bepuiing the happy hours with
gyraiions-if you only wind them up or enough.
BOYS Toys
when you como to the boys toys you feel at once
how far old times left behind. To be sure. upon
the walls are hung. like trophies In castle hall,
large cardboard shields with the OUTFIT for
boy soldier, sailor huntsnian neatly ar
ranged npon II. There Is the soldiers KEPT,
his gum and his sword his knapsack and his cpaulcs,
ready to assist in ushcrng him into the sham martial
lire that boys will always love: but he can be an adj
inra just a. easy. with lne cooked hat and sword
and pistol, or a huntsinan with horn, and he can
vvon don the brcastplate and helmet with waving
lIne OF curassier II his fond parents are generous
tiiU'yh. AT ordinary stores these outfits begin at
81 with cheap materials Schwarz commences at
81 30 for soldier OF the line and goes up to SIS for
little cirnssier The toy soldiers In every grade
and arm of the service aud be had in wood
metal and at every price. Noah's arks contain all
the latest and most OF the ancient animals, wooden,
painted and plain.
SCIENTIFIC Toys
Outside OF these things you become illcd with
certain Of the boy. His toys rise into wonders
and every science yields the prccocous little mon
trihnic VIII not hiIx him tLs littln