The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-07-08
SAND TOYS or TO-DAY.
A Surprising Variety Of Things Of This Type
Made for children.

He would not have to be a very ancient per.
son TO recall the time when sand toys consisted
simply Of a little pail and a little shovel. Now
adays sand toys are made In great variety.
OF sand pals alone there are certainly fifty
and probably nearly a hundred varieties. These
are made Of wood, of tin and of papier maohe.
and in various sizes and styles. Some OF them
are made In this country and some are inn
ported from France or Germany. Some OF
the pals Of tin are nicely ensmeled and 4 nl.hed
with gil, bands in imitation of hoops, very trim
and naity Indeed; others have pictures on them,
and 80 on sand pals OF one sort and another
sell AT from Ave cents up
sand shovels are now made In scores Of va
~rieties, counting materials, styles and sizes,
and like the pals they are made some IN ,hi,
country and some in Europe They are MADE
OF all wood, part WOOD and part iron, part wood
with a blade Of Tin, and so on: OF sand rnils
and sand shovels there are sold in this country
millions annually. Almost every child at some
time in its life wants to dig in the sand, ard
while the seashore in smnmer is where 4and
toys are chiefly used, yet such toys are sold
also for inland use, away from the water, in
various, parts OF the country, Tor making mud
pies in back wards and 80 on.
In old times children used 10 borrow Of their
mother fancy little cake tins with which 10
mould mud cakes and pies nowadays there s.s
especially. designed for this purpose, hilr
a dozen Of them, all different. come In a lin Gu,
which Is used 70 scoop up and carry, the sand
when the monlds are being used These are
cheap; a cup with half a dozen sand moulGs
costs ~ cents.
There are made nowadays sand toys that
are sold in sets, such sets being made M ~
a variety OF toys, and these In turn being made
OF various materials and IN various size.
Here. for instance, Il a sand toy set that include,
a sand sitter, a rake, "A shovel. a pail, various
sand forms and Il sprinkling pot,
The sprinkling pot, It might be added, 10
comparatively modern as q sand toy. Spi ink-
ltn. note nE. old moi -1lN. an .A.l
but MUCH more commonly separately, lihs
sand pals aud sand shOvels. such spl inklnrg
pots are made IN considerable variety a. 10
styles and sizes. and some OF them are very
pretty. Older people may remember ihat it
was once the custom, In max Ing mud pics,
to scoop UP and carry In the two hands or in
anything that came HANDY, the water reguired
in mixing the sand. il Is n common thing fnr
the modern ctiId TO use for this purpose a iitls
sprinkliig pot.
Other sand toy sets have the various tbircs
comprised in them carried IN a whpainsIrow,
which il a part Of the sci. Another So, has
for a holder and carrier Of the Various things
contained IN II a basket shaped, IlAs a bosr.
A set of tin sand toys contained in a boz is
made up Of "A dozen different forms, like a LOT
OF little blanc mango moulds. these include
moulds making forms win a fish on top, with
u lobster and 40 on, There are various sand
toy sets Of wood, these making forms Of shapes
different from those commonly produced with
tin moulds, the wooden moulds producing
rounded forms In various shapes and proper.
tons In many Of the wooden sets the several
toys are prettily ornsmented in some wooden
sets they are all carved there are carved show
els and that sort Of thing.
A sand Toy set Of wood. of a different sort
from those whose toys make rounded and
moulded forms. is one in which the various
toys are rat blocks Of wood, with the various
forms c,i out OF the centre. Thus one block
IN cut out TO make The shape of y heart. ons
makes the shape Of y dog, and 30 IN, The
newest thing IN wooden sand toy sets l. ono
from Germany, whore parts are used in finish
ing M and connecting sand structures. built
on the beach. This sci contains arrhed frames
that can be made 10 serve ~ doorways into
sand mounds, and material in the --'s may h.
used 10 make entrance ways or tunnels into
such mound There i, material here for
building bridges, or arches. or tracks, nom
one sand mound or sand fort 10 another, and
SO on, The %varions sand toy sets of one Kind
ard another sell ~ % cents to ~ zach.
Great a. the variety Of sand toys offered
has come TO be yet there are novelties Offering
sll the time. and white " is sure 10 he %.urpris-
ing, a. II -, "a one whose digging in the sand
was done years ago, before the simpler things
then nsed had come TO be known by The dis
%tinctive name Of sand toys, the assortment
Is constantly GROWING.