Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-24

on sent back by that city's wholesale toy
dealers to the very localities where they
were first flung on the scrap heap.
merry Christmas to these ingenious
peasants. Their ingenuity Will undoubt-
eddy make many new world youngster
exceedingly happy rs he enthusiastically
ticks the paint off his new bauble and eN-
poses TO view the tell-tale legend under
meath: "Sardnes-Best Grade" And, like
wise. an equally hearty merry Christmas to
the wood toy carvers in the Vosges and in
the Jura. and the hundreds of fashioners
of stone marbles-the real boys delight-in
the Cevennes down in the south of France
few miles back from the shores of the
blue Mediterranean. Again a very merry
christmas to one and all of Frances 25-
600 toy makers, for since 1901, when they
were prompted by competitions and ex-
positions inaugurated by NJ. Lepine. chief
OF Paris police. the yearly value OF their
output has increased by millions of
francs. In 1901 the increase was about
2,ooo.oo0 over 19o0's production, which
showed an increase of 6.00o. 900 over that
or preceding years. And all this means
greater JOY to the American child. who
gets the French toy at its best-which is
another way of saying in it's costliest
form
Where Toy Boats Come From.
Coming nearer home. the small boy who
delights in sailing trim yacht on a park
pond and who finds his hearts desire
sticking from the top of his stocking.
should not fail to wish the several thou
sand toy boat makers of THE tight little
island heartfelt merry Christmas
Haemmern, hamlet in Germany, for
from body of water bigger than an
American "crick," spends its years in cary
ing thousands of miniature sailboats and
warships, but were IL not for the assist
ance of their English cousins the inhabit-
ants of Haemmern could not begin to fill
the wants OF Yankeeland in this particular
Hence thousands-literally shiploads-of toy
boats reach these shores every year from
England where factories have been busily
running since last Christmas to meet the
present needs of both young America and
young England A medium-sized factory
turns out 10000 boats year. and some
produce five times that number. Labor on
the boats is so subdivided and specialized
that a boat before it is completed passes
through fifteen pairs of hands. The en-
ployes in the larger factories number hun
dreds.
Then there are the English makers of
card games, one or more such games find
ing way into the stocking of the average
American child with each recurring Christ
mas. The industry gives steady work to
other thousands, and this can be readily
understood when it is stated that that is a
small game card factory which turns out
only a million packs of cards a year. And
while Johnny Jones and his sister Sue are
wishing these cardmakers the best that the
season affords let them do the same by the
several thousand and women SINH
larly engaged in their own land England
and the United States are the two great
card game nations, and the tons of paper
they consume in this manner are almost
past belief. To make million packs OF
cards six tons required
Outside this card industry few Americans
are engaged day in and day out, from one
Christmas to another, planning and work.
ing for the delectation of the youngsters