The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
Many New Toys in
 the Pack of Santa Claus
Chicago Record-Herald.

Chicago Record Herald.
 Christmas less than six weeks of!
 Which means that away up in his top shop at the north pole Santa Claus is working day and night at the millions of wonderful playthings which he will de- liver in his reindeer sleigh, via the chin- nsy route, to all children that have been good, on the happy morning of the 18th of December.
 Every year there are many more toys and more wonderful styles of them, but this season Santa Claus Is going to eclipse all previous efforts in devising playthings such as the little boys and girls of the long ago never dreamed of possessing. Each season brings out it's novelties, but 1t is among the mechanical toys especial ly that the new things are to be found. Germany the land of toys, makes many of these wonderfully clever playthings, but France, too, sends some of the finest of the mechanical toys which find their way across the seas to the land of the Stars and Stripes.
 Tho variety of these mechanical toys is nothing short of bewildering. There are performing animals galore, and just the simple act of winding them up sets them doing all sorts of tricks to delight the small eyes that watch them with fas- cinated interest. The pig that squeals, the monkey that turns somersault, the puss that meows, the dogey with a clown on his back that runs around a ring, are familiar, but among the new mechanical animals is life-size cat covered with yell low and white fur-the real thing. You wind the cat up and it walks and moves its head with all the air of realism of the feline that strolls along the top of fence. There Is, too, walking bear, and a tiger manifests similar peripatetic proclivities.
 A little girl who walks along leading white dog by a string attracts much at- tention. Then there is the mule pump, with the animal of obstinacy standing be- fore a trough which is filled with water. You start the toy going, and the mule takes a drink, and flaps his ears and switches his tail by way of thanks. Very amusing is "the school" showing the teacher at her desk and a row of we'll behaved and industrious pupils at their smaller desks. On the stool of repent ance sits the bad boy. Your wind the toy up, and the teacher goes through the mo- tions of hearing a lesson, the pupils rise one by one to recite dndicated by small squeaks, each in a different key) and the bad boy applies ac handkerchief. to his eyes to wipe the tears of repentance.
 But most wonderful of all Is a singing Ord In a gtlded cage. You wind It up and the make-believe bird turns its little head from side to side and thrills and warbles so beautifully that when you close your eyes you think you hear the real bird. t
 Young America requires that his toys be strictly up-to-date. Consequently, the automobile plays an important part in the holiday show of play things. Not that the horse is neglected. He is there in all his glory, represented in a variety of voca- tions in which his live flesh and blood prototype is employed-drawing milk ice, coal and grocery wagons; panting before great drays; off to a fire, or harnessed to hanson, tallyho or victoria. But the automobile has the attraction of greater novelty, and we encounter it in all its varied up-to-date forms, from a shop de- livery wagon to a runabout Newest of all is an automobile that toots horn as it runs along.
 Among the new water mechanical toys are life-sized metal swimming fish that you wind up and place in miniature pond, around which they glide with all the grace Of movement of live fish, and to make the realism still more complete, the toy animals rise to the surface every Mt-