Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-01
MONKEYS AND DOGS.
An Odd Little Toy-Maker in New
 York's French Quarter.
Queer Trado Imported from Paris Monkeys of Many Colors and Marvel ous Anatomy Hair Raising I'm
 provemcnts Upon Zoology.

eye in a quiet by-Street of the French quar- ter of New York, south of Washington square, says the New York Star. The words are painted upon each end of a little hanging showcase affixed to the cast-irou balcony of tho house. The showcase con- tains a dozen bright-colored little figures iE chenille, and upon the frame is pasted bill-head which procIalms that the proprietor is a manufacturer of Parisian novelties in chenille, wool and silk, and that his spe- cialty is dogs and monkeys.
 The manufacturer of these odd, bright little toys occupies single small room opening on the balcony. If appearances are to be trusted the toy-maker and his wife both sleep and work in this one apartment, for in the rear is a bed and in front are the various tools and materials that are used in the trade. Neither of the pair speak En glish. Only year ago they came to this country to practice their pretty art, after working at it for three years in Paris.
 Chenille is a most accommodating materl- al, for delft fingers can work it up into all most innumerable forms. It is simply slender wire covered with a shaggy growth of wool or silk, and looking like long and extremely fuzzy Caterpillar. It is dyed into all sorts of gay colors, so that the remnants scattered about the toymaker's floor looked like the wreck of a most gCr- geous rainbow.
 The toy-maker is good -natured little man, possessed of an inordinate desire to make English-speakng persons understand his French He struggles painfully, while his wife's black eyes widen in sympathy, and the listener looks on in hopeless mysti- fcation. Fortunately, or otherwise, the toy maker has a friend who speaks what he is pleased to call English, the same being a grotesquely accented caricature of the Ian guage mainly current in this country. Along with this odd linguistic treasure the | friend is possessed of a somewhat suspic- | ious temper ament, which leads him to use his gifts of speech sparlngly in explaining 2 | the toy-maker's business.
 l However, between them they managed to say that the materials were imported from l Paris, made up into toys right there on the premises, and sold whenever the little toy maker could find buyers on hls peddling ex- petitions.
 l Dogs and monkeys are truly the little mans specialtes. He has them in all the colors of the rainbow. There are white monkeys, with blue legs and red arms | blue monkeys, with crimson arms and legs ved, white and blue dogs; white mother monkeys, clasping to their breasts tiny little red, blue and green monkeys; parti- colored monkeys, standing on their heads or hanging by their tails; monkeys per forming all manner of gymnastic feats T upon delicate wire frames; monkeys rid ing on dogs; monkeys drawing baby-car- 'iages, in which repose other monkeys.
 The tools of the toy-maker's trade are of the simplest sort. Besides the chenille in every imaginable color, he has gold and sil yer thread, tiny wires, nippers, scissors needles and mucilage. He can make you g monkey in wonderfully short time. It is g mere matter of snip here, pinch there and twist somewhere else, and you have the monkey, grinning and lifelike. You would not believe without seeing it how much expression a single snip or pinch will ! put into the face of an unfinished monkey.
 It is just the same with dogs. The toy maker turns them out by the hundred They are mostly white, and of that odd long haired variety which people with 1; fondness for improving on nature like tt trim into the semblance of lions. The toy maker turns them out singly and in groups Sometimes he makes a four-in-hand Gos team driven by monkey. It IS easy to see though, that he is fonder of monkeys tha1 of dogs. He has whole boxes of impisl little monkeys, and it is his special deligh
 to make up groups of half dozen slmians
 big and little. When a group seems finished
 he will suddenly dip down into his box, fisl out d pdTGlCuldIly 1ulpOSSiOlS uttlC GlOuhS.
 and hook it on somewhere by pinch at on
 of it's wiry arms.
 The little Frenchman does not pretend t
 have a large trade, but hls biIl-head i
 printed in two languages, and he expects t
 have his monkeys and dogs tremendousl
 popular with the young folks. Meantim
 he picks up an odd dollar or so now an
 then when he goes out peddling. If onl
 there were some such small coins in thi
 country as the French have he would d
 very well, for little monkey could be mad
 for next to nothing and sold for half a cent
 if only half cents were current
 But life in the French quarter is not e,
 pensive. There are breakfasts at 15 cent
 or less, and dinners at 20, and there ar rivers of red wine at 50 cents gallon. In
 region like that, and swarming with chi
 dren, too, Q man who can make chenil
 monkeys that look as if they had just com
 out of ''zoo" or South American fores
 has no need to go hungry or thirsty.