Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-12-09
OHkIsrMAs Joys.
Some wonderful Mechanical Inventions That
Delight tho Little Foihs,

Some wonderful Mechanical Inventions That
Delight tho Little Foihs
From the Baltimore sun.
An evolution In the toy business has made
itself apparent The purchaser of to-day calls
to mind tho box Of soldiers he invariably got
ON each Christmas morn. sun old fellows
they were, made OF German kindling wood.
They wouldn't stand up, and couldn't lie
down without being disarmod In both mil.
itary and an anatomical sense, and when one
attempted to place them ON tho little criss
cross concern that came with each box, the
round pedestal upon which thoy stood always
bursted, and the noble army WAS put on q
peace footing
Toys for girls in those DAYS were also tear
fully II not wonderfully male. To have n
lointed doll WAS 10 bask In luxury. For the
little mother TO kiss her wooden child was to
damage Its complexion irrepsrably and to
transfer sticky paint from dolio's nose 10 her
own unless, of course, she got a china doll,
aud that always fell on the hearth and go,
smashed the next day.
Santa Claus has learned much since those
days His factories In Germany and France
have hal successful competition In the
United States, and toys In tho last ton years
have been produced on rapidly-rising scale
OF beauty aud mechanical ingenuity.
Wholesale dealer, when asked whether the
tendency of the times was To demand the
cheaper or more expensive goods, replied
that the proposition could not be stated that
way. "There is" he said, ga proportionate
demand for both kinds, but there IL a tenden-
cy towards getting tho same goods cheaper
each year, and To getting larger article OF
the same kind for the ruling price. There ia
one thing about our business not generally
known. There will shortly be no jobbers In
our goods. We import and sell goods We
never see That IN to say, parties purchase
goods OF us and tho goods are consigned Ia
them directly from abroad
Inp k-rp stainless that al lWays find sales
. siolls for girls and horses for the boys Dolls
are only made in inferior quantities aud
qualities, In this country, There are hun
dreds of varieties of thom-China, wax,
wooden, composition, Juma, bisque, rubber,
leather, dressed, undressed, unbreaksble, in
endless procession. Some plebeans have an
inror consciousness OF sawdust, which IN
pot vi out through their tlimsy cutcles on
slii crovocauonA Some are covered with
Frehcu white kid and have flowing blonde
locks OF flax. They are filled with pride and
wool because they are French Kids
Dolls are made which walk, crawl and cry.
Some can say "mama' and "papa' nearly a.
naturally ~ the real article OF flesh and blood,
hut when the talking gear gets out of order
the sound IL like the distant wait OF love-
lorn tomcat The latest novelty Ia sleep
ing baby with a cap that TITS closely 20 the
face When the breast is pressed the head
revolyes quickly and a wideawake face Is
shown, while the word " mama " Is twice re-
pea,ed. When you want IL to go to sleep
again btrlDG Is IullbI, anu nearly every
real mother who secs 1t wishes in her heart
she could rig up an attachment like 1t at
home.
Horses are OF many kinds Some are in
the shape OF prope!ers, some rock and some
gallon. The toys covered with natural kins
are great sellers, aud tho demand on certain
sizes cannot be satisfied. These are all i'm
ported. Many of the wooden ones are made
down East. Ia TACT, largo wooden toys are
mostly Yankee products. An experienced
tealar tall hgthpr the goods
imported or domestic. On tool chests black
boards, desks, picture blocks building blocks
and cut up puzzles, America beats tho world.
To make ten pins Interesting they are made
to represent soldiers, generals or men OF
different nations, and a ball IL fired At them
IRON miniature CaunOnS These games are
mostly made up 50 IA to cost one almighty
dollar. Germany on lower grades Of toys
gives the most pieces for the least money.
but they are so II usily made that one gen
orally gets more pieces than ho wants. The
American goods are solid ard hre mostly
adapted to children too old to play trivial
games and too young 10 90 to work, and desks,
etc, are reprod uCtiOus OF grown mp furniture,
, with drawers and Cy Under desk tops, costing
as high as five dollars There Is a Baltimore
maker OF such toys In all si1es who makes
the best In the country. lie cannot furnish
goods enough.
There are no decided novelties this year 10
supply the place OF tho choral top OF 1855, or
the nickle watch which sold 10y thousands
last year. But there are elephants that walk
and swing their trunks, birds that hop along
the ground, squirrels that skin about and
tom. cats that get their backs up, stiffon their
tails, sneak along the ground and yowl as
natural ~ life. There are bows and arrows
for boys, iugglers that balance things on
their chins, men and monkeys that smoke
real cigarettes just likea dude Then there
are baby carriages, veloCipedes, steam en-
gines, scientific toys, such as electric batteries.
The glittering generslities that are hung on
(lTiatmaa trees In great demand, Inpv