The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-16
TOYS FOR THE CHILDREN
WONDERFUL THINGS SHOWN AT IN
DIANAPoLIs STORES.
There Il Everything to Please Little
Boys and GfrIs-Mueh Christ
mas Shopping.

The stores QlSDiaNIDB CntlStHidc eOJo -
the downtown districts are filed every
Gay with happy children who are specu-
iating as to what they are going to ask
Santa Claus to bring them for Christmas.
The little tots go down town after school
hours every day and blockade the aisles
in the toy departments and look Ionsingly
at the innumerable new things displayed,
with prices marked ridiculously low. Many
OF the children bring with them the money
boarded in their savings banks for the
FAST year TO buy holiday gifts for their
sisters or brothers or parents. They go
20 the various stores and price things and
finally return to where they can buy most
with the least money Just as IA older
people do.
However, there are toys displayed in the
shops to suit the purse of every one, rich
and poor alike One of the department
stores that deal in toys to a large extent
has a splendid assortment of mechanical
French toys, including street sweepers,
nowers. ballet dancers. etc. Something TO
delight the boys is shown in an automatic
engine house which when in working order
rings an alarm, the doors fly open and out
come the horses, hose cart and hook and
ladder. This toy sells for s.. One of the
newest toys is the automobile. These auto
mobiles come in various sizes and are rub
Der tired and sell for various prices up TO
s.. Walking animals are looked upo1 with
much favor by the little folks and are COW
cred with real hair or fur. A prismatic top
Is one of the most popular things shown
This season. il is furnished with discs and
a paint box and brush, and as the top re-
wolves the various colored paints may be
applied. forming rings of the different col
crs. The top sells for % cents, including
the complete outfit.
a RAILWAY SYSTEM.
In another store on Washington street
where toys are made one of the special
features a complete railway system is
shown, including steel rails, trestle work,
side switches, flag stations, depots, round
house, dispatcher's office, viaducts, turn
tables and a train shed. together with a
train OF cars, which sells for 500. There
are steam engines and others that work
by clock mechanism priced from 1915 to
80. Then there are gas engines or hot air
motors and miniature double expansion en-
gines. as well as turbine engines, the walk
ing beam engine and a traction engine,
variously priced from . cents to $50. There
IS a large assortment OF magic lanterns
shown. priced between so cents and $3.50.
The cinematograph is one Of the newest
things in this line, and one with six films
Including ~forty-eight stationary pictures.
IS priced at 81. Another size sells for $3.50.
One Of the newes mechanical toys shown
is the juggling monkey, which when wound
up juggles with a ball. The Rough Rider
Is another OF the new mechanical toys and
represents a Rough Rider on a donkey
Another presents q clown and a trained
white kitten Uhfoh nina orOr,pH IN n o;rolo
when wound up. Then there are poodle
cogs with long, silky white fur, playing
cymbals and otLer games or a trick BIZ
cycle rider playing ball as he rides. One
of the latest musical toys includes two
white cats, one playing a cello while the
other sings from a hymn book. both stand
irg On a music box The toy sells for s..
Horses n carts are shown in all sizes,
Beautifully finished with rubber tired
wheels Inc upholstered seats, including
traps. road carts, ~stanhopes, Surveys, VIC
torias, etc.
Pewter soldiers, arranged in boxes, in
both the infantry, cavalry. batteries, etc.,
sell from 10 cents to $ a box. There are
also the various army wagons TO go with
supply. etc.
HOh LILLE G1hLS.
Something which would please the little
girls is shown in a set of rustic hickory
furniture. which is an exact imitation OF
the larger sets, which sells for 81 a set
Then there are sets Of kitchen, parIor.
Bedroom, library and bathroom furniture
which sells from 5 cents TO Sc. Tea sets
are shown In pewter. enamel, English and
German china, japanese china and metal
priced from 5 cents to 81. Stoves come in
extct limitations of the larger ones used in
all kitchens-the iron stoves sell from q
cents to $3.50; steel ranges. for oil or gas
WITH plated utensils, sell from $1.5O to S15
farmyards, including fences, COWS. chick.
ems, horses, etc. are sold in sets from g
cents TO 50 cents. Sheep folds are SOLD
at the same price. One of the newes.
Things In the toy line is the friction TOYS
which are shown in locomotives, dinins
cars and automobiles. They are wound
up by friction and are the only TOYS tina
VIII run up an incline or on any sort of z
level They are guaranteed TO run on {
level ABOUT 500 feet, and they are pricet
at 81 apiece.
There are few new features I'm the assert
ment or dolls shown. as they vary little
from year to year. The newest thing thi,
year, however, are the dolls Which hav,
real eyebrows and eyelasheS. The eye.
Iasnes are put on a patent eyelid, but tn,
dolls OF this description are rather ex
pensive and a doll with both eyebrows ant
eyelashes costs about $S5 or $45. The usua
lot OF dolls shown are similar to last year
There are the rag dolls, the china dolls
the patent, u~nbreakable dolls. the cellu
loid dolls, kid body dolls. jointed dolls
all oisque dolls and combination bisqut
and kid dolls; then the rubber dolls and IN,
coiored dolls, and the dolls which are col
ored on one end and white on the other
The dolls are as variously dressed, some il
party dress. others In reception gowns
while others arc summer girls, dresses
with shirt waists and skirts and sailo
hats. Others are dressed in winter cIothe,
and mu11ed in furs. The handsomeSt doll
are the French dolls. but the demand 10
them Is slight, as they are too high-priced
The dolls sell from 1 cent to $40. There \
an endless variety of doll furnishings y
select from in Jewelry, fur sets. furniture
Tea sets, dresses, shoes, hairpins and hat
pms, hats, gloves, mufiiers, petticoats
bracelets, etc, and one can furnish a con-
plete dolls house at very little cost.
"A department. store shows a line OF poo
tables. The largest size has a slate be,
ana Is large enough for a regular game o
pliiiards 1t Is priced at $50. There ar
other sizes which range in price from 81
upWa-1s. There are punching bags show
and FOOTBALLS, tennis sets and croquet set
As well as baseball outfits. In games Their
are numerous ones In travel, which ar
both instructive and interesting, and the
there are also the usual number of wa
games, among the newest being 1.-The Nav
Alphabet" the Army Alphabet" "Won
derful Willie; What He and Tommy Al