Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
PAINTINGS FOR HOLIDAYS
Ever So Many New Kinds Of Toys and
Games for Girls and Boys.
Handsomer This Year Than Ever BE-
fore-Ingenfous Contrivances for
Interesting Young Folks.

There are more brand-new games ana
toys for the coming Christmas than have
been seen before in many a year.
Some of them are inspired by the worlds
fair-for example. the Ferris wheel puzzle.
which is a novel and interesting modiaca-
ton Of the pigs-in-clover idea The wheel
turns around and the problem is to per-
suade number of shot to enter the cars
all at the same time
Equally new are Punch and Judy tenpins
for the little ones. They are shot at with
small wooden balls fired from wooden can
non. When one of them is struck. a
spring causes it TO fly apart I'm an Interest,"
ing manner. The figures represented by
the pms are comic, comprising. in addi-
ton TO Punch and Judy, policeman, a
nursery maid, a ghost and so forth. A
somewhat similar device for amusing is a
liumpty Dumpty target representing the
mead OF a clown on a large scale When
ne is mt in tine open mouth by a rubber
baII thrown at him a spring causes his
tongue TO wag and the stroke counts 80
Miniature Post Office.
one of the best of the large TOYS is a
miniature post office. which looks very
much like real one, having fun compile
meat Of private boxes a stamp window. a
letter SLOT &c. The boy who plavs nost-
master sells envelopes ami little postal
cards that look quite Ike real ones ON a
small scale. he distributes the mail in tha
boxes. attends TO the general delivery ana
makes up the missiyes in packages for
mailing.
McGinty's ladder is a toy more enter
tanning than instructive The gentleman
named is made out Of wood and he starts
at the top OF perpendicular stick With
pms on either side of it. The pins are so
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Tor him to be supported ON any pair OF
them, and so he comes scuttling down TO
Ine bottom In a most ludicrous fashion
ihefe Is d tower target-targets are Tnuch
in vogue this year-which is covered ali
over with the letters OF the alphabet and
SHOWS comic face at a round window
henever the face is struck, another takes
its place.
Lessons I'm Sewing
Perforated cards are a novel device for
giving first lessons In sewing to little
girls. The perforations form simple mic
lures, and the latter are flled in by the
child with worsteds and q cunning little
cylindrical box Of wood containing needles
are furnished ODD little drawing boxes
are likewise sold, with perforated cards,
which are intended for use as stencils one
OF them being laid down upon a piece OF
paper. a pencil is employed to follow the
periorauohs In this simple manner the
deslgn Is reproduced, after which il 10
A new kind of street car Of tin drawn
oy horses OF the same metal, has a socket
Tor candle inside of it, The windows OF
the vehicle are % translucent paper with
colored pictures painted on them so thar
the light OF the candle shining through
thefn produces a pretty effect. one set OF
tenpins is called the Brownie Band-that
/ is TO say musical band of brownies. with
an the instruments represented from drum
70 bass horn and brownie drum major
70 lead- Another novelty is a circus me-
} pal
and other beasts. so arranged thai tbe
elephant, camel and other animals drax,fus
the cages can be separated from them
] Ferris Wheel and Doll House.
miniature Ferris wheel is run by clock
work, carrying passengers in cars II viii
go for an hour. There are all sorts OF toys
that are actual pieces of machinery run by
steam, from steam pile-driyer on a small
scale to locomotive that pulls a train of
cars. One such plaything represents a
factory. with real boilers and a tall chin
ney. III Will furnish motive power for
wheels and belts.
| A remarkable dolls house is made after
the pattern of the White House with a
past OF Grover Cleveland on the roof The
front OF II opens, showing artistically fur
nlshed bed rooms and parlors A small
COW utters a strikingly realistic ''moo''
when ITS head is pulled to one side more
complicated plaything is a device with
horses ana riders who race in a circle IL
] IL. Il p
r1es spear. As the horses race around
SO fast that they cannot be distinguishea
metal rings are dropped through a dxed
chute resembling the kind used at merry
go-rounos. Most of the rings are caught on
the spears by the riders and the game 10
won by the Jockey who captures the great
est number of them. The impulse is given
by a spring.
over the Garden Wall.
1t is noticeable that the Canes are much
hdnQSCner hox
thanks to the perfecting of chromo-litho-
graphic processes. One Of the prettiest il
called Over the Garden Wall. Il is q varta-
ton OF Tiddledy-Ninks. wall of paste
board bricks is set up around a pasteboard
garden. and the wirks are shot over irto
the garden in the familiar manner A
wink that lands upon the flower bed in the
middle counts 8 points, on the paths
points, on the grass plots / point Several
trees grow in the garden, being set I'D oa
woocer bases, and IL a wink knocks one
of them over points are lost.
another game after the pattern OF Tld-
oledy-Ninks IS called Kings Quoits. Tho
problem is to shoot winks which are in
shape OF rings, 50 that they will fall and
encircle numbered pegs. Another novelty
j. the Sociahle Snake, which Is divided IN
into segments on picture board The
moves are made from segment to segment
by throwing dice, and the player who
alights upon q red spot is obliged to move
| Needless Tommy is a game somewhat
similar, the spinning OF an arrow Determine
ing the moves on a board which is divided
UP INTO squares. In some OF the squares
tommy Is seen in the act OF doing some
thlng good, as rescuing a kitten while in
others he is behaving badly stealing lam
Tor example. When the player alirbts on
pad square he goes back SO many stages
suffering vicarious punishment for Tom
my wrong doing. Another kind OF snort
is named William Tell. The players toe
marx ana throw rings over a peg that
mas red ball, representing the historic
apple, on top of IT. Every time this is ac-
eoinpilshed without knocking of the bah
IL counts so many points.
ShoNetboard for the Parlor
A new game OF Shovelboard for the parlor
has three pins, which the players try TO
knock down by shooting checkers at them
along the board by blows with wooden
hammer. More interesting is the Magnetic
flsn Pond, which. when set up, represents
a tank with lot of fish al the bottom
through the nose Of each fish is a metal
ring, and they are angled for with poles
ana lines, the latter having little magnets
on the end instead Of hooks. Each fish is
numbered, and The player VINO nrst reaches
iU wins. The magnets get weak after they
nave been used for while. but new ones
can be easily got. The old Oaken Bucket
is similar is similar i'm plan. Instead II
a fish tank there is a well, into which Inc