Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-22
CHRISTMAS TOYS.
They Are More Thoroughly Up-to-Dste
This Year Than Ever Before In the
Annals Of Christmastide.

Annals Of Christmastide.
Toys for the coming Christmas are
more thoroughly up to date than ever
before. The animals which heretofore
have moved on wheels are doing their
own walking this year. Even the
tiger and the bear travel on their own
four feet, and a horse with a surprising
hishstep action pulls a carriage. These
walking creatures are astonishingly
lfe-like in their movements, and sim
liar mechanism is used in connection
with dolls that draw vehicles, swing
ing their rms and turning their heads
from side to side as they proceed. A
fashionable young lady doll in a stylish
turnout looks this way and that as she
goes along, as if bestowing a languid
interest upon passers-by.
Small but ingenious automata are
conspicuous among this years play
things. One of the best of them repre-
sents a donkey taking a music lesson,
the teacher "a clown waving his
baton and nodding his head, while the
animal opens and shuts its mouth and
brays. Miniature circus riders disport
themselves on horseback, a girl jump
ing through a hoop, while a boy stands
on his head and clashes cymbals to-
gether with his feet. Then there is a
very funny pig which walks along and
squeals at intervals while a dog hangs
on by it's curly tail.
Many of the mechanical toys are OPP
Grated simply by being drawn or
pushed along the floor. and these of
course are on wheels. There is a
water tower of modern pattern, though
on a small scale, which will serve to
put out a bit of a fire, ~elevating a hose
to a height of three feet or so, and dis
charging a steady stream. Such an ap-
paratus would easily reach the third
story of the newest kind of dolls
house, which latter, by the way, is a
wonderful Improvement on the kind of
thing that little girls were accustomed
to play with a few years ago.
The new dolls house is as nearly as
possible like a modern dwelling, the
suburban villa being the model most
usually copied. 1t has porches and a
small front lawn, and the second-story
piazza is even decorated with tiny
Towering plants in pots. The interior
of the dwelling is disclosed by opening
the back, which is on hinges, and all
the rooms are seen to be as completely
furnished in all respects as any resi-
dence of well-to-do people would be.
There is actually a complete telephone
in one corner of the library, and on the
floors, in addition to carpets, are tiny
imitation skin rugs with animals
heads on them. In the front hall, too,
there stands a hat rack, with cunning
little hats hanging upon it's pegs.
Mission furniturefi of a size appro-
pirate for children's use, is one of the
novelties of the season, and has the ad-
vantage of being almost indestructible.
Mrs. Roosevelt, a toy nan said, bought
a set of it for the white house young
folks the other day, including a table
and several chairs, suitable for dolls
tea parties. Quite new also are little
Morris chairs, just like the big ones
and with cushions most comfortably
stuffed for the children.
The dolls themselves are proper
tionately elaborate and expensive. A
fashionable young lady doll of Christ
mas, 1902, must have her travelling
trunk, made just like a real one, con-
tanning a complete trousseau. Such a
trousseau may be bought complete for
as little as $27, though some OF them
run much higher. Almost a necessity
Is a black silk Monte Carlo Goa for
Miss Dolly, made precisely in the like
ness of the garment which has recent
~ been the height of the mode.
A beautiful musical toy is a little
gold box, out of which, when the me-
chanism is turned on by a switch,
there pops a tiny silver bird, which
flaps its wings, opens and shuts its
beak and sings a song. Then, when it
has finished its song, it pops into the
box, n the lid shuts down. One can
buy one of these exquisite p%laythings
for only $110.
By next January the toy makers of
the Hartz mountains and elsewhere in
Europe will be working on toys for the
following Christmas. for they are
obliged to keep that far ahead of Santa
Claus demands.-Philadelphia Record.
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