The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-14

I they do not use real hair for this
purpose, use a specially prepared ma
terial which looks as good as real, and
that after all is the main thing. Bodies
and limbs are now added by other
work-people until the doll is completed
and ready for Santa Claus bag.
In the old-world town of Nuremberg
| a great number of workmen are en-
ployed all the year making lead sol
diers and all kinds of lead tops, and
a mighty army of lead soldiers is
turned out every day by these indus
| trious people.
The workers of Nuremberg also make
toy telescopes, microscopes, magic LAM
terms, and all manner of mechanical
and scientific toys. There also is made
| the well-known and ever-popular
clockwork mouse, which runs about
the table or floor in such lifelike
manner.
Not great distance from Nurem-
berg is the town of Furth, where the
Noahs Arks are made, containing the
| curious animals and the still more
curious trees with which we all are
familiar. At Sonneberg no fewer than
| $4,000 children are employed making
toys for other children to play with
| and to destroy. AS the Christmas
| season approaches these little work.
ers are Kept so busy that they often
sit up the greater part of the night
helping their parents to earn money.
Wooden animals and carved toys of
all kinds come from Saxony, where
the soft wood from which they are
| made is procurable in large quantities
| at small cost. A length of wood is
cut away by means of the turning lathe
until it's outline takes the shape of
the animal or figure desired When
this is done the wood is sliced up into
| thin pieces, each piece being a rough
| representation of the animal. BY
this simple process large numbers Of
animals are made at one time and on
ly few finishing touches are. needed.
| Another famous one of Santa Claus
| great workshops is situated in the
| Tyrol, 1900 or more feet above the
level of the sea. The people of this
district have supplied toys to Santa
| Claus for more than two hundred
years. The shall wooden dolls are
carved by the Tyrolese, and from. this
| district also come the jointed dolls
| known as Dutch" whose limbs make
| peculiar noise when they are moved.
| as II their poor owners We're suffering
from rheumatism or growing pains.
Many toys are manufactured in
France. The French have the knack
| OF turning everything to account and
| it Is said that most of these tin toys
are made from old sardine and other
| tins that have been thrown away. In
France are made cheap sets of chess
men and bone dominoes, a large pro-
portion of the bone used for this pur-
| pose being the waste material from
the factories of toothbrush manu-
| facturers.
Small toy drums are made in Franch
chiefly out of preserved fruit boxes
which have served their purpose. and
been thrown away with the rubbish,
| Toys worked by means of a pneumatic
tube the compressed air causing the
figure to dance, and perform many
| queer and undignified antics are
French inventions.
Skittles, battledores and shuttle
cocks, military toys, and toy watches
are also made in France, and sent ia
England and America, thousands at
Many of the poorest Inhabitants of
the East End of London are tow
makers. working in their own homes
which often are little better than DIM
geons or stables. Dolls boots and
shoes are made out of waste material
and cheap wooden toys, such as neg
tops, rattles, ETC., are also produced
! in London.