The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-06
TOYS FOR CHRISTINA
Many New and Original Features
This Year.
WIDE RANGE FOR CHOICE
TINY BREWERY THAT MAKES
BEER.
Hot Air Engines Which Develop
Enough Strength to Operate Full
Grown Sewing Machines-Street
Cars With Signs, Reversible Seats
and Other Complete Equipment.

Toys, toys, toys, and tots tots, tots.
There are enough playthings in Salt
Lake today to delight the hearts of
$4,000 children two or three times over.
AS the holidays: approach, indulgent
parents are beginning to stock the at
tics and cellars and closets and draw
ers, and every other place hoped to be
out of reach of the juvenility, with
gifts. OF course, all gifts in the young
minds are toys. and toys only will be
acceptable on Christmas.
A walk along Main street discloses
that about one-third of the store win
dows contain toys of some description,
and the variety is great. In the whole
sale departments a bigger business
than in years is being done, and re-
tail dealers, though the rush has not
come yet are more than satisfied with
the trade.
Brewery That Makes Beer.
1t is remarkable what mechanism is
employed in the construction of some
toys. 1t seems incredible that beer
can be produced in brewery that oc-
cupieS about two square feet of space.
So it is. But there is the prettiest mod
el of brewery in tin that one ever
laid eyes on down on Main street
Every pipe is in place, the engine is
started, the exhaust escapes, and the
ingredients go through the process in
whole. The miniature brewery is a
gem in the world of toys. 1t will cost
some parent $40. if purchased.
Then there are steam engines of
every description. Locomotives that
run on circular tracks are proving
quite popular. alcohol lamps being used
to raise steam. Stationary engines are
old. but this year hot air motors have
made their appearance. This toy is
about one foot high, modelled after the
real thing Hot air is produced by a
lamp filled with pure wine and placed
under the boiler, and in five minutes the
wheels are going at great speed. So I
powerful is the pressure that belt run |
from the fiy-wheel to an ordinary sew
ing machine wheel would operate the
latter.
Fire engines run by steam are also in |
evidence
Tiny Electric Batteries.
The electric battery is a new article
in the toy department. Its current is
not great enough to do any harm and
II can be played with by the children
without danger.
Street cars, with signs and reversible
seats motormen and conductors, and
operated by clockwork; dolls that say
Mamma" and walk around on a ia
BILE: jumping frogs that rival Mark
Twain's Calaveras county pet: jumping
jacks that, when wound up. come with
in one of solving the problem of per-
petual motion; horns, bells. police pa
trolls, fire departments, trains of cars.
iron. steel, tin and wood. all having
some mechanical appliance: rubber
balls that squeak and squirt water;
popguns, horns that blow at both ends
for fear one throttle should fail, and a
thousand other soul-delighting produce
tons of genius are there.
The prevailing war spirit has mani
tested itself in the manufactures.
Everything that looks like boat is
labeled Olympia: everything. that
has a uniform and white mustache,
Dewey" One store has miniature
Olympia on wheels. with Dewey on the
bridge and sailors walking around On
he deck while the admiral bows. 1t
s probably intended as a reproduction
If the New York naval parade.
All Kinds of Guns.
All sorts of guns, swords and SOL
liers' apparel. labeled. for instance.
'Lawton's Pride" Skaters Delight"
sHobson's Knapsack," and so on, are
,iled up. Then there is the Spanish
American bank The money is placed
It the end of cannon and shot at the
lull of the Maria Teresa, in which it
inks Dewey Flyer serves as cog
lomen for a train of cars.
A miniature billiard table. with cues
nd balls, is novelty put up, and a
,oard upon which twenty different
James can be played is brand new.
There is practically no end to the
took of good toys, and less difficulty
n finding something new will be ex-
this year than ever before.