The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-03
SOME OF THE TOYS
SANTA CLAUS WILL BRING

grownups. insist on being supplied
with novelties in the way of amuse-
ments What was good enough year
ago does not satisfy them today they
require something fresh Consequent
ly the ingenuity of the toy manufac-
turer is continually exercised to con-
trive something new to surprise and
entertain the little ones.
For the coming Christmas there Is
greater number of novelties than usual
and not least surprising among them
are toy locomotives and battlesh1pS
made of sheet iron painted, which are
50 large that fair sized boy can COM
fCrtably occupy either engine or vessel
as a passenger. The locomotive, which
has a tender attached to it, costs only
S25. and the formidable looking war
craft is purchase BILE for the same price
/ These huge playthings are Veloclpedes
of a sort, propelled by the child's feet
Another new thing is completely
equipped little stable for a racehorse,
with feed box, troushs, pitchforks,
wheelbarrows, a sitter for oats, blan-
kets. harness, and even a jockey 10
ride. In some of the top stables of lat
est pattern a horse and an automobile
are placed side by side. There is also
the miniature garage containing
several autos of different types, includ-
ing even a motor truck for carrying
freight.
Dolls That Walk and Talk.
The latest thing in the line of toy
motor vehicles is an automobile that
goes forward a certain distance ana
then runs backward, repeating the
oreration several times by the auto
matte reversing of its mechanism. The
doll that walks and talks Us new for
the coming Christmas. and may fairly
be considered a wonder. It's hair IS
''bobbed'-i e.. cut off square all
around-just like the hair of many lit
tie girls al present. There is new
kind of doll, quite artistic in its way
which is made to represent various ia
miIiar types of people. 1t is about a
! foot and a half high made of cloth.
ard. being provided with unusually
large feet, is able to stand up quite
comfortably. One such manikin is a
policeman. another a soldier, and so on.
Dolls houses now have tiled bath
rooms with porcelain tubs, provided
with a towel rack, sponge and soap.
! In place of the old fashioned Noah
/ arks. small menageries filled with ar
! tisticaIly carved wild animals are sup
piled for the instruction of young folks
! in natural history. To teach them
! geography, they are provided with rub
| Der balls which are geographical
! globes, furnishing education in dis
! guise.
Automobile Loops the Loop
! A milk wagon, drawn by a horse. is
! flied with milk cans below and butter
! tubs above. Doors at the sides open
| and reveal pats of butter and pieces of
I cheese. The peacock that utters cry
at intervals when pulled along the
/ ground on wheels is really a beautiful
bird and striking toy. Equally artis-
tic is the performing bear, which wags
! it's head and exhibits other marks OF
! intelligence, thanks to mechanism in
| its stomach. The toy popcorn wagon
/ is exactly like a real enc, and is even
| provided with little pepper.
There is a toy loop the loop" with
/ a little man in an automobile. who
1 starts at the top of a tower and per-
1 forms the hazardous circus feat. The
4 "house on fire" does not actually burn
the flames being merely painted. A
/ fireman ascends a ladder to rescue q
/ woman from balcony, and another
! fireman directs upon the building q
! stream of water from a hose.
! The newest style of toy drum beats
/ itself. and is not provided with sticks
| Another musical instrument for the
| nursery is a little hand organ on
! wheels In a sage there is a little bird
! which is caused by clOCkwork mechan-
| ism to sing and flutter its wings. Nine
! pins of latest pattern arc shaped like
! boys and girls. The correct toy sol
/ diers. of course, are Japs and Rus
slams.
Most ingenious is a toy savings banl
representing bird which feeds Its
young ones, the latter opening their
mouths when a coin is presented
| There is a bank for dimes and cents
which registers the number of pieces
received. and when s. worth of dimes
has been contributed it opens, or when
81 worth of pennies has been deposited
Toy Typewriter, That Works.
A shooting gallery has three little
men standing in a row. each Of then
wearing a tall stovepipe hat Attached
to 4 rubber string is a ball and the
problem is to snap it in such a way az
! to knock off one of the hats. Each hat
counts different number.
The latest toy typewriter works al
st as well as a real one. For chill
| dren who like to paint, colors are sup
| piled in tubes, moist. TO take the place
of the little bricks that used to be sold
in boxes. The small girl, if she wants
it may have a tiny ice cream freezer
! that will really make ice cream.
Toy frogs and Holsters are of cellu-
loid, and they float delightfully."- Gard
] ering outfits are now put up in sets
! for children, including wheelbarrow
hoe, rake, spade, bucket and watering
pot.