San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-03
"OH, MAMMA, BUY Me THAT"

The kid" Cries for the Automatic
Bear and Mechanical Monkey.
Boston Herald.
"Say, ma, why can't l have that
bear? don't want the drum. ! say
want a bear, what can walk and
srowl. An buy me little gun to
shoot him with" His mother tried
to drag him away, but it was no use;
the bear had to go, too.
"We never had anything" said the
shop girl, after they had gone out,
that sold as these toys have this
year" aud she proceeded to show the
Herald man through the menagerie.
First, there was the bear that fas.
eipated little Johnnie. 1t is a gen.
vine bear from Bearville. He 10 big
and, black and furry, and when
wound up starts off with bruins
heavy numbering gait and moreover
he growls horribly and opens his
mouth very wide, showing his white
teeth and red flannel tongue.
Under a spreading palm tree sits a
little yaller "coOn." This is another
vi tu0 you press pho'ooeeoh 500 ".
toys. The pickaninny sits still and
gazes thoughtfully up at cocoanut
on the tree, until you press the but
ton, when, presto! he springs up,
shins the tree, butts his head against
the cocoanut, which sticks to it; then
he climbs down.
A pug dog turns his head and ways
his tail as he trots across the floor,
and q tolncat wiggles his ears, humps
his back and arches his tail in a very
feline manner.
There seems to be no end to the
TOYS that walk or crawl or hop, each
following the ha bit of his kind. There
is big green alligator with q little
bigger ON his back. The gator not
only runs along the floor, but swishes
his tail, turns his head from side to
side and snaps his jaws viciously to-
gether.
A white swan glides along swim
mingly, and flaps its wings when
picked up. Meanwhile a big green
frog is hopping heavily along, and
squirrel, " it'll a nut in his paws, skips
gayly over the ground. Out of al
ipnocent-lookipg box pops white
rabbit, who opens his mouth, sticks
out his tongue, and disappears
again.
Here, too, is a chance for the small
boy to frighten his big sister out of
her wits. Two dollars buysa large
gray rat that slides over the floor in
very ealistic style. Try one on the
cat and see what will happen.
From little pulpit Brudder john
sing, in red-striped trousers and
yellow vest, is preaching camp
meeting sermon, humping out his
texts with a blue umbrella, and just
behind him Sullivan and Ryan are
lodging and pummelllng each other
with the gloves. Wooley sheep
turn their heads slowly and bleat,
and COWS shake their head and low.
Over yonder the performing bear
dances as he thumps the gizzard out
of tho big bass dnum.
Then the Herald man thought for a
minute he'd "got 'em again" There
was q whir and q buzz in the corner,
and turning he saw little skeleton
dancing a very lively jig. Arms and
legs were flying, teeth chatering and
bones rafting in a fashion to make a
man yell for a pledge. This ought to
catch the PTohibitiOnists. Just put
one of these dancing skeletons in
Booty Groggle's room, where he can
see it " hen he wakes up. There will
be no danger of a relapse.
Not only I'm the stores are these
toys the tavorites thisyear; the fakirs
on the street are selling them every
where.
"Here " are," is the cry. "De little
Brooklyn gent. You winds him up
am he wheels de baby carriage across
de floor"
"Oue dog, one dime" yells his
neigh Dor, as he winds up woolly
poodle with hopper and a yelp In
him. And little farther down the
street are butterflies that beat their
wings on the ends of sticks, monkeys
that ride bicycles along a taut string,
and ostriches thar walk bravely off,
wheeling a little carriage behind
them.
The youngster that can't find am
usement in some of these clever
mechanical toys ought to be set ia
building log houses with clothes
pins
NJ;ni,nun VaiohG for Child Life