Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-12-13

ON YULET|DE GENEROSITY.
Bah Has Something to Say About Ap-
propriate Christmas Gifts.
THE POOR CHILD AND A TOY-AN
ECONOMIC PLEASURE Is a HOL-
IDAY STROLL THROUGH THE
MODERN BAZAAR - NOVELTIES
THAT ARE NO NOVELTIES -
ABOUT NOAH'S ARK AND ITS
ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS-WHERE
THE BOOK-LOVER GETS HIS IN
NINGS-THE LADY FROM HUSH
ABLY STREET-FRANCE UNDER
LOUIS XIV-GRUESOME TAPES
TRY AND CHASTITY BEDS OF
MARIE ANTOINETTE'S TINE -
FRENCH CALENDARS-THE ART
OF ADNIIRING WITHOUT POS
SESSING.
(FrOm Our Regular Corresponds
New York. December 9.-There is
nothing quite so beautiful just now
az the shops. IL doesn't make any DIFF
ference whether YOU are rich or pOOr,
indeed YOU can be a beggar, though
they do object TO you being a thief,
that is, If you are pursuing your ayo-
cation. But anybody, that Is, any hon
est body. can feast her eyes on all the
lovely Christmas things, and in one
way she viii own them just as much
as the richest lady iu the land. There
is something fine % being able 10 en-
joy without possessing. i cannot UNI
Gerstand though. how any woman,
with a little money 10 spare. can 90
into the toy shops and come ont with
out buying some tride 20 make glad
somebody's child. There are dolls OF
all degrees offered to the doll-loyer-
there's the wonderful French doll
whose face has a naughty expression,
who is so accomplished that She can
cry like a real baby, speak like a par
rot. and waltz with the eXaclness OF
a machine IL is true that, unlike real
ladies when she dances. she furnishes
her own music, Whisper it not in
Gath. but when she moves around to
the tune Of THE Beautiful Blue Dan
ube. the tiny music box is concealed
under her lace trimmed petticOat.
DOLLS FOR RICH AND POOR
Then there are less expensive dolls,
real baby dolls, dressed i'm long clothes
and reclining in carriages, with doll
nurses. standing beside them; there
are little girl dolls. gOwned in short
frOcks and having tennis TaCquets in
their hands: and there are lady dolls
in long-uained dresses. who Toll on
easy chairs OF gilt upholstered in sat
in. There is a bride doll, too, with a
Sinking bridegroom, and the bride
looks so modest and the groom so hap
DIV that / am certain that. last night,
while all the world slept the dolls
came TO life, and there was a really
and truly wedding formed i'm the doll
shop. There is everything to make a
doll happy. A closely curtained brass
bed Of the right size. i'm which she may
dream: china bath tub i'm which she
may take her morning bath and pre-
serve her complexion, while for this
purpose there is a special soap war
ranted not to iniure the most delicate
dolls skin, Surely, the very height
of luxury in dolls had been reached;
and yet-aId yellow often is child
bappy with an old manned doll, loved
not for its beauty, but for its many
sorroWs?
There are some
TOYS THAT NEVER CHANGE.
The lovely woolly dog is just as
SQUARE at the corners as he was when
l was presented TO the first one more
years ago than I like to remember.
Although science has progressed, the
workings of the wOOlly dog are as crude
as ever. The same string Is pulled,
the pink tongue comes out, and the
"bow-wow' is just Us hollow and arti-
fetal as il should be. NOah's Ark is
as absolutely artistic as when you and
l first counted the animals therein.
The dog and the elephant are the same
height. and both are pink. The croco-
die and the camel each have q curly
tail. and are a lively purple and the
only way YOU can distinguish Shem,
Ham and Japhet from their wives is
by their wearing stiff round hats, not
unlike those known as sundowns.
Shem is the joyous brown he always
was: Ham is a brilliant orange, while
Japhet is pale blue and Moan is de-
Hghtfuly notified. The dove. with q
leaf i'm her mouth. is the same color