Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-01

1
our wax dolls and Paris our porcelain and IN
destructible heads"
your stock. :" said the Herald reporter. .mus
| consist very largely Of goods OF foreign manu-
| lacture since II takes six months of the year to
| make your purchases"
nes. our total importstions this year win
| amount TO nearly S4O0, 900; but the TERRITORY I'd
| De Travelled over Is large, and there being no
two articles manufactured In the same place \
great deal more time Is required than in thin
country, where complete stock can be Sc.
lected at one house In q day. And, then. a
good many of our imported articles have 10 b
made to order from special designs furnished
by u.s."
Nearly all toys manufactured in the ola
| country are made by hand are they not ?"
| Yes they are made for the most part by tho
peasants. who, In the case of the more artistic
designs, obtain their models from local artists
employed at the expense of the city or town for
that purpose. In Sonneberg one artist Is maid
salary OF 5000 marks TO teach children the art
OF designing. to prepare models OF different ar.
| ticles, and to elevate the standard of designs
and Improve artistic taste generally"
DO you purchase each article direct from Ito
in many instances we do. but there ara co,,.
| mission merchants who handle the less expen.
sive toys and novelties. from whom IL Is somes
| times OF advantage to buy to save the time re-
Qulred TO visit each manufacturer But Won
mao better see the buyer who went with me ON
| this trip. He saw everything and can tell Won
all about 1t. l only saw what had to-" The
| buyer was produced and demonstrated beyond
question MS familiarity with the European toy
| and novelty trade. On shelves ranged i'm LONG
rows against the wall were hundreds OF dolls
heads beautiful specimens of bisoue daintv
wax faces. with red cheeks, blue ewes and real
hair, and the ordinary earthen heads. nearly all
| OF which come from the towns OF TburinoIe
and Nuremberg. 1.-The design of these heads
SAID the buyer. indicating row of bisque dolls
| neads us something new. Nearly all of them
are modelled from photographs collected in the
oiHerent galleries here. Now, look at thus Lang
Try mead. You notice the arrangement of the
hair9 1t is entirely different from ANYTHING elsa
| In the market. but We never could have gotten
| anything novel or original without furnishing a
| design. whenever see picture in a book, or
photograph with striking or original face,
make point OF securing it, as ANYTHING new
from which to model dolls head can be made
| serviceable in selecting a stock"
doll that drinks milk from bottle and rolls
It's eyes with satisfied sort of expression would
| seem to most children the acme of perfection In a
substitute for the real flesh and blood kicking and
| squalling article. Such an invention exists
Ihe price is not eXorbitant. and, unlike its AMI
mated prototype. the outlay for milk Ia very
| small. owing to the inability of the machine to
retain anything on its stomach for more than
| I'VE seconds at q sitting. All you have to do IN
70 wind the thing up. and no further attention
| Is required or expense incurred until the doll
| runs down or the milk wears out
L
| fashion OF the ordinary singing TOP only instead
| OF producing but single tone as it spins II
| sounds three or more notes of a chord. which
| changes every ten seconds to another all being
relative to certain musical key. This Ia quite
| an Interesting toy, and Is In great demand
This class of toys, including tin soldiers wagons.
animals, etc, are manufactured principally i'm
| bohemfa by the peasantry. In GrasiitZ. Boz
| hemia, are manufactured immense quantities OF
brass and German silver Instruments from tha
1 uleSt comets anil other orchestral hop
pieces to endless patterns of toy whistles bugles
| and miniature comets, trombones trumpeta
etc, which find steady market in this coun.
try.
Here's something" said the buyer indicst.
| Ing a table covered with articles useful and or.
namental, of polished brass, being duplicates OF
the pieces in the window, heres something you
| won't find very common in this country. but it'a
| growing more popular every day."
w hat do you call it," inquired the reporter
| ut Is called cuivre poll literally polished
copper. but the name Is applied as well to poll
| ished brass" ...."
| Where is it manufactured, and in what re-
spect Is 1t superior to ordinary brass and Cop
| per-"
| I'VE purchase it from the manufacturers in
| Berlin, Paris and Vienna. You can see by ex-
aiming it that it is entirely different from any
| thlng manufactured in this country. In the
nrSt place, il is cast in a rough mould for heavy
pieces, then trimmed and polished. For articles
like card receivers salvers cake and fruit has,
kets and punch bowls, the metal is STAMPED into
the desired shape, then highly polished
The Summer Letter Writer.
From the Chicago Tribune
He had an austere face, steel-gray hair and Q
dlctatorial vo'se. His body rested comfortably
IN an armchair upon the upper deck OF the
steamer. ihe time was morning and the boat
was discovering to the eXcursionists the beau-
| ties of .ae Hudson.
''Yys. sir. 1 assert it." he exclaimed: SEM
pha'cally assert it, The descriptive letter.
writer is either crank or a simpleton"
Are you not little hard on these innocent
people2"
NO, sir; not bit too hard never vet saw
one OF these verbose iunatics in print but that
L prayed 50-tOn pile-driyer might strike hia
vocabulary and knock every adjective ia IL into
the unrecoverable beyond. And still. with all
this, wouldn't be surprised to learn that Won
are going to inflict a little article on some news
paper and deliver the patient editor of what
written. did you say? 1 thought So Just q
short account of the trip? Oh. yes. | UNDER
stand Well suppose you will begin by say
ing that at half past O'Clock you boarded the
swift and cOmmodious steamer"
THAT was my intention; why not?"
Certainly, certainly: swift and commodious
OF course. Never saw a steamboat Vet that was
not swift and commodious. Ii you had boarded
Noahs ark You would undoubtedly have tele-
grarhed that she was swift and commodious
After that you are going on to say that the
boat was soon afoat upon the placid BOSOM
always ring i'm the placid. even if a cyclone in
! about-piacid bosom of the Hudson. and
swiftly blowing its way through the gentle
waves, while the revolving paddie-wheels
churned the watery wastes into foaming spray
as white as the sugary crest Of a wedding cake"
Great heavens, man! those are my very
wo~is!"
''Indeed9 thought so. OF course you said
something about your giadness to get away
from the sitting atmosphere of brick walls and
to once more breathe the pure and unadulter-
ated air of the river and the mountain"
s'Of course did"
Certainly; knew Il. You remarked too
that the day was clear and bright You would
have said the same thing II it had been as dark
as the record OF one of your Fifth ward poll
ticians. Then. again, your letter had not pro-
ceeded very far before the indescribabie beau
ties of the Hudson began to untold themselves.
You said the excursonists stood spell-bound at
the enhancing grandeur Of the view, when. in
fact. half the people you see are either reading
the morning papers, fast asleep, or utterly un-
concerned whether the enhancing etcetera is ON
exhibition or not need not dwell upon the
details OF your letter, but you worked up your
adjective vocabulary through the grand to tho
ouh irnn onA hon,