Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-20
FAIR WANDERERS.
IA Visit to .'Toyland' in the German
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 St Louis, Oct 2O.-We have heard of the man who wanted to know what time they fed the gondolas, also of the young lady from Hardin college who wanted to know what building the lagoons were in. I thought these were personages evolved from the i'm. hginations of newspaper reporters, but am now prepared to believe most anything since John convulsed a large group of spectators while looking at New Jerseys tank in the Forestry and Fisheries building. There is sign over the tank which reads ''This water N ds from the Atlantic, ocean," and into A the tank water constantly pours from two-inch pipe. Looking at the sign and the pipe, John carelessly ob- served, That's a long way to pipe salt water, isn't it?''
 John says this is a good story to telY on some visitor to the fair. I think 1t is myself, and that's the reason 1 aul telling 1t on him. The people who Icome here, after all, constitute a most lsnteresting exhibit. And first among. them, in point of interest, are the. Mis- lsouri babies. s
 They have babies i'll Missouri. And they bring them to the worlds fair. They don't leave hem at home with ailda or Flossie. They don't check like box of ham sand \ wiches and pickles. And you don't have to go over to the incu- bator exhibit on the Pike to see Miss ouri babies. The incubator babies" are from New York and Boston. They ldon't raise babies that way ill Miss louri They are the real thing. They come in mothers arms, and in fathers farms N4heneRer the latter cam Be feft suaded to carry them, which is not of- ten. But the most of them 1 find come to the Fair in little go-carts which seem to be made especially for sthese infantile sight-seerss Even though the baby is only six months old and few of them are older, these go-carts enable it to assume sitting position where it can take Tn all the exhibits, and, strange to say, 1t never sspills out.
 [ have seen them by the dozens III various exhibit palaces and even on the crowded Pike. Tn the morning they start out with eyes wide open, viewing everything with aparent delight and * satisfaction. As you pass them they smile and blink at you as much as to & say: .Great show, isn't 1t? Fine Miss. ouri we are having, yes."
 But along about noon their peppers gently close and they drift softly into the land of Nod, all unmindful of the din of the megaphone chorus # {or the martial music of marching bands And they snooze away peace fully and comfortably all the after noonwhile they are being showed about dreaming no doubt of the toys They sawain Toyland in the German exhibit of the Palace of Varied Industries.
 4Isn't it a pity the way they bring babies to this exposition?" ?" said fashionably dressed lady as she view ed one of the smiling infants through a pair of gold eyeglasses.
 'sI guess you don't know Missouri babies" said a man who overheard her. ssOut here they raise babies in the good oId-fashioned way. They don't hatch them out nor feed them from bottles. They want them to see ali the sights of the exposition and the outdoor air does them good.'
 And, speaking of babies, if some one should ask you where the exhibit of toys was and you knew nothing about the exposition what would you say? sYou would say. '.In the German sec ton of the Palace of Varied Industries, of course" You would know at once that Germany. the home of Santa Claus, the maker of the grandest toys that ever gladened the eyes of child hood, would be certain to have a great exhibit of rare, beautiful and ingen- ious toys, And here it is, in the Palace of Varied Industries. You generally stumble into it by accident as you wander through the German section. Here in two rooms are enough for q hundred big Christmas trees, enough
 e fill the childhood of a thousand homes with dreams of never-ending Foyages through Toyland. One room
 s devoted entirely to the famous ''an- ,hor blocks'' and shows a beautiful
 German mountain scene with houses hnd bridges made of the blocks. In
 he other room is every toy known to
 ToyIand from dolls of every size and pattern to zebras, tigers lions and ele- bbants. A life size camel and a pony
 ire laden with bags bulging full and
 unning over with toys, and there is
 arge collection of felt toys showing
 he entire animal Kingdom, all made
 Giegenbrenz, Germany. And the
 ollsl No use to try to describe them.
 Tar more beautiful are they than the
 oils of the Alaskan Indians, or those
 nade by the Britons, the Soudanese or
 be Japs. T. A. D.