Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-01-27


bsr roys aud Educational TOYS, Hut
for Tin soldiers ana wax nolis We
simply Are Not Ia IL.
"Of all the toys sold in America. "
SAID prominent wholesale dealer in
toys to Philadelphia Times repre-.
sentative, "nine.uenths come from
Germany OF these large proper
ton are made In one little place,
Sonneberg, town OF about 1900
inhabitants in Thuringen. Almost
the entire industry OF this place is
4 confined TO the manufacture OF dolls.
The inhabitants are very poor people
and are brought up to doll making
4 Before it Is completed doll passes
/ through many hands. he head,
hands and feet are mace by one per-
/ son, the body By another. the hair is
fixed on by another, and the face is
painted By two other different peo-
1 Pile. one doing the rough work and
the second the finishing touches.
I The clothing Is made by another per-
son and the dresses are put on By
still another
There are French walking dolls.
smoking men and other automatic
figures. but they are mechanical and
too intricate to be classed as mere
dolls or the rubber dolls fully one
half are made in America. where
anything that Is machine made pros
pers TO the exclusion of the imported
stuiIs Tho prices Of dolls range
from one cent TO fifty dollars. but the
most popular. OF course, are those
that sell for twenty. fifty cents and
one dollar, although there has re-
Gently been great run on five and
ten cent dolls A. with dolls so IL is
with other toys The most of them
come from Germany. where they are
made so cheaply. The same town Of
SonneberR furnishes many OF them,
but more come from Nuremberg and
small towns Ia Ms vicinity.
lit Is IN this district that magnetic
toys. swords. guns, trumpets. horns,
woody sheep. jumping jacks. mon
keys on sticks, jacks 10 the box and
ingenious mechanical toys are made.
The carved wooden toys come chiefly
from the Bavariau highlands. but
they are brought 10 Nuremberg 30
be sold Tho cheaper grades OF
! wooden toys are made 10 poorer Sax
ony aud comprise cheap arks and
sets of furniture. How cheaply
these things are made sou may
, judge from this instance; Here is q
! toy set consisting Of three chairs a
. bureau. table a sofa and mirror.
!. carefully done up in substantial
dashboard box. Now. after having
paid thirty-ivc per cent duty. ani
having allowed twenty per cent fol
freight and other expenses. we sci
such furniture sets at seyenty-fivc
cents a dozen and mako a reasona
bic profit Think Of that lon cat
figure out tho original cost II yoI
choose
Porcelain toys tee sets an,
things Of that sot--arc also mad,
very cheaply. the waste places il
the potterics being filled up with
their molds without much cost
Toy horses cows. elephants. cats
dogs. lions. tigers and all kinds o
, animals are made chiefly in German
prisons. Many of these are ingeniou
! novelties. being SO constructed as &
be able 70 move heads and emit
: noise resembling more or less tn
4 natural cries OF each animal Tn,
I retail price Of these toys runs fror
; fifty cents To $50. or the woodei
. tcys. fully one-half are made /
= America They include A d
blocks. bnildirg blocks and games
aud are easily turned out by ma
chinery. Iron toys are also mad
largely mere. and SO are tin toys
Tho tin for the latter is impottc
from Europe, aud " hen the toys ar
finished they are exported for tn
\ European market.
4 ..Ihe majority OF rubber toys com
from France, mostly from Paris, bu
the manufacture Of this line OF play
things l. constantly increasing
America. and the American rubbo
toys are really the best TO be ha,
The reason that America has nc
taken the lead in tho manufacture {
rubber toys is found in the fact this
? the great demand for other good
I. shuts out the toys Toy watches al
!, ~emarkably cheap aud are made
France We sell the watches Wit
L chains. charms aud movable hant
). for twenty-five cents dozen, afte
- having allowed for duty aud freigh
Of the standard games, the be
> chossmen come from England; bacl
CANNON and checkers are made alt
!. gether in America; bone dominoe
= dice aud the cheaper grades OF ches
men como from France; toy prlntir
K presses. locomotives and al th
\ line OF goods are domestic.
Toy printing presses were forr
IL erly almost wholly furnished by &c
IL many, hut latterly the American
~ have superseded their Teuton
" brethren. Ia educational toys Anne
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