The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-24
PRETTY WINDOWS
ATTRACT SHOPPERS

II is strange how many presents
| there always are to be bought at the
| last minute. From the crowds Of peo-
| pie surging about from counter to
counter and from store to store it
would almost seem as If everyone had
| put off buying until the last two or
three days before Christmas. Children
press their faces against the panes of
the display windows and wonder what
Santa will bring them. The Boston
Store has a figure of the good old saint
| that looks as merry as Christmas it.
| self. Clark-Sawyer Company's window
has a novelty in the way of Christ
mas decoration. 1t is landscape and
a waterscape, and the way that au-
tomobiles and locomotives and steam
boats run about in that window is a
wonder. Gross & Gross has a window
full of handkerchiefs with a see-saw
in the middle. The dolls which ride
up and down on this always with a
very pleasant smile on their faces),
are much envied by the little ones who
gather about the window. c. T. Sher-
err e. Co. has a window full of dolls
with a dancing doll as the central at
traction. Another window represents
a scene from the sunny South. The
crowd of late shoppers at this store
was so great, Saturday night that
to enable the clerks to do business.
There are enough novelties for the
present-seeker if he only uses his
eyes. All kinds of toys-"made in
Germany" and in America, too-fill the
counters and windows. The best Amer
lean toys are the mechanical ones and
there is a greater assortment of these
than ever before. There is the COW
that can really be MIXED and airships
fhaA Arr nf
that steam away at a great rate of
speed. No little girl thinks Christmas
is quite complete without a doll and
there is a bewildering variety of these
to select from everywhere one may
turn. The doll houses are sumptuous
affairs and have everything necessary
to set up housekeeping with that doll
could possibly desire.
For the older people who want toys
of a choicer variety there are plenty
of things to select from. Look in the
china and crockery departments of the
stores and a person need not be at a
loss what to buy. At the Boston Store
there is some curious and artistic
Swedish ware in dull reds and browns
and blues that was imported especial
ly for the holiday season. The cleo
trio night candle is a new thing to
many people. 1t looks like a drawing
fObIil VI IdAleill, sLS II Is III the form OF
a slender daffOdil rising from a square
black base. Press a lever and a tiny
bulb in the centre of the blossom
sparkles out. The battery which sup
plies the electricity has to be renewed
only once in six weeks.
The jewelry stores are well patron
lied and as for the candy stores, it is
difficult to get into one. Candy canes
have lately become so popular that IL
is hard to make the supply meet the
demand. A generation ago the small
boy thought himself lucky if he found
a candy cane in his stocking in addi-
ton to a pair of mittens and some
home made toy, and now the cane has
renewed its popularity though the
child of today would feel himself pref
ty badly off if he only received the
same things that his father or his
mother did.
G. & L. MacLachlan viii furnish the
new furs and cloaks to many a proud
woman tomorrow morning. The firm
was the originator in this city Of the
scheme to give clerks one per cent of
the holiday business done by each and
the result has been Of benefit to the
firm.