The Saint Paul globe., 1903-12-20

hardly makes her feel at home for the
things. For instance, one of those ul-
ira modern creatures which has pho
nograph concealed in it's inside recites
Twinkle. Twinkle, Little Star, How I
Wonder What You Are" in such hu-
man sort of way that the old-fashioned
little girl is apt to remark to the talk
ative plaything, now / wonder what
you are" But fortunately for such a
little girl there are old-fashioned dolls
left, ones pretty enough to be kissed
and ordinary enough to be spanked.
And for the littlest girls there are
some of the most absurd new dolls
made of prepared" stockinet (Which
makes one think of 'papier mache")
which neither break nor bump, and
which have bland faces and mild eyes
that show all the good disposition of
rag dolly. There are also colored pic
ture books printed on linen that are
warranted indelible in case baby should
want to absorb the story through his
mouth; and other books in which the
pictures are like stage scenery, all Of
them being set upon the page in the
way of little old-faShioned lace valen-
tines.
Toy Circuses.
OOIIic VI the Toys lIllS year look DIS
If an American circus had taken it's
way last summer through the villages
Where the German toymakers live.
Many and marvellous are the things
modelled after the menagerie and ring,
one of the most ingenieus being a set of
performing clowns, elephants and DON
keys. They come with a full equipment
of ladders, tubs, chairs and stools and
can be set up into intricate figures and
made to perform difficult stunts in a
way to allure grownups in behalf of the
children as irreSistibly as the circus it
self. The toy clowns are even more
timber and seem to have more joints
than the real ones, while the animals
will stand on two legs with a guileless
expression never .equaled by even a
circus elephant or donkey.
There is also a set of giIded travel
ing cages on wheels, which show up
the Zebras and leopards with a dash
not to be equaled for moment by the
Noah's arks. A monkey cage in which
the inmates are manipulated into mon
key tricks by means of system of
cords and pulleys, and stock farm
full of splendid horses, blooded Alder
neys, Jerseys and sheep, with room for
real hay in the top and a pen full of
big and little pigs in the yard, are some
of the most attractive of the new ways
of bringing animals. There is a sepa-
rate sheep yard and a chicken farm, with
the regular barnyard rooster hens and
pair of fighting cocks covered all with
correct chicken plumage, which has
gravel, coops and roosts as complete
as might be set up by any chicken fam
cier.
Telephones to Play With.
One of the things that the grown
up people are gobbling up as fast as
they can, to use as individual cookers,
are the toy chatting dishes and they
also covet the tiny French coffee pots
of nickel A typewriter that works
better than last years model is to be
had for $3.50 and a telephone with two
fixtures, four batteries and 100 feet
of wire is another toy likely to be as
popular with grown-ups as with small
people.
Before one enters the big stores
these days one is able to get some ink
ling of the treasures they hold in the
way of toys by a glance in at the win
dows. On Sixth street, for instance,
there is very fine toy window, indeed.
with a wise looking Brownie as large
as three months old baby for a cen
terpiece. About Mr.. Brownie are
grouped woolly lambs with bright.
beady eyes; roosters with gorgeous tail
feathers that would look like really,
truly roosters if they were a few sizes
larger; ducks which seem so lifelike
that one expects them to say "quack,
quack;" and all sorts of dogs, Blanche,
Tray and Sweetheart and the rest.
Then there are picture books, wide
open, so that he who fingers may gain
some idea of their contents; policemen
and toy soldiers and tin whistles and
games attractive enough to make the