The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-11-27
TOYS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Some Novelties Of the Christ
mas Seasons Trade.
ATHLETIC GAMES IN BIG DEMAND

Fully Equipped Gymnasium, ON a
Small Scale, Can BE Bought Tor the
Children Large Output of Ping
pong Accessories 49, Imitation Bill
lizards For Youthful Players.
Although it wants some time of
Santa Claus season, Christmas toys are
already on the market, says the New
York Times. All summer long the
creators of children's novelties have
been at work, and the retailer is laying
in his stock. The keynote this year is
to be sensibleness in the matter of toy
selection. Santa Claus has been at
work on a variety of things intended
to promote the health Of the child as
well as to amuse him; hence athletic
games are in the majority.
You will be able to buy a complete
gymnasium on a small scale for the
use of the child this year, including
everything that goes to make up the
paraphernalia of muscle development.
There are patent reversible wall sets,
the weights of which are dumbbells
and may be detached and used sepa.
rately. There are punching bags that
may be used either on q bracket or on
a floor and ceiling rope. There are
parallel bars that may be converted
into vaulting horses. There is even q
punching bag and football comhina-
ton.
There are geographical puzzles which
take in our new oversee possessions,
teaching the names Of cities and towns
therein. There are maps which, when
placed together, form themselves into
miniatures of Manila, Porto Rico ana
Cuba, but they are not affairs which
are easily pieced together, so that the
child will need to have at least smat-
tering Of the topography of these coun-
tries before he will be able to con.
struct the maps thereof.
Most of the leading novelties this
year are intended to furnish amuse-
ment for the elders as well as the,
youngsters. So, while child will I'M
doubtedly be fascinated with some Of
the games planned on the order of bill
Hards and pool, so also will be the older
members of the family. for some skill
is required to manipulate many of the
games. One of these games has even
attained to the dignity of composition
balls and chalked cues for shooting
them into the pockets at the corners of
the table The game is different from
taat which is played in public halls.
however. The balls are placed differ
emily on the table. and the counting is
not the same.
Games generally are in demand, and,
judging by the fact that one firm alone
has placed orders for 100000 sets Of
pingpong, or table tennis. that game is
to be the popular indoor innovation
this winter. Another dealer whose or
ders are nearly as large as those of the
dealer just mentioned says that there
has been no falling off in the popu-
larity Of the game and that it will be in
even greater vogue this winter than it
was last year.
The classic building block is to be
sold in even greater variety than ever
before, and there are specimens OF
stone, cement, wood and other con-
gtruction. Kites are also to be award
ed the good little boy-not the old fash
Toned affairs that have to be adjusted
with long tails, but great box kites,
like those used by the United States
weather bureau, to which the young
ster may attach Leyden jars and do
some experimenting on his own ac-
count. Malay kites are also on sale,
some Of them seven feet high, but so
easily handled that a boy under ten
may fly them from the housetop with
out danger OF being pulled from his
perch.
For the little girls there are dolls
the mothering instinct is always asser-
tive-rag dolls that will not break. The
chief novelty in this line includes two
dolls in one 1t is planned to enable
the child to practice a little magic, to
the great surprise of her friends. For
instance, she shows them a doll dressed
in blue. Placing it behind her back,
she brings forth instantly black pick
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she has apparently only one doll.
How does she manage it? Under the
skirts of the white doll, which has no
legs, there are the head and bust of the
doll. By catching hold of
the head of this black doll the skirts
fall down over the white
dolls head, the arms hanging down
beyond the covered head and making
the necessary feet.
Freak toys are not to be in vogue
this winter. Those that are sold are
In the hands of The fakirs and will be
only on the sidewalks. Tae
leading novelty iii this line is a rubber
case, which, when inflated, looks like
a monstrous Frankfurter sausage and
which, when allowed to leave the hand,
flies swiftly up into the air, pursuing
gyrating course.
1t loses air as it flies, however, and
soon comes down again near where it
was set off. A curious feature Of the
sale of this toy is that the fakir hav
ing it in charge employs a corps of as
to chase the Tecalcitrant bal
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