The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-17
TRICKS FOUND IN TOYLAND What the Small Boy May Ex-
 peCt This Year THE GIRLS NOT FORGOTTEN Dolls of Exquisite Design Will Delight Little Mothers and There Will
 Be Automobiles Galore.
 New Creations.
THE GIRLS NOT FORGOTTEN
From the New York Herald.

Never before have such handsome doll mansions and such beautiful dolls furni- ture filled the toy stores. For little less than a hundred dollars Santa Claus is prepared to furnish patrons with the most complete modern mansions containing a large number of spacious apartments fur nshed in the latest fashion, equipped with bathrooms tiled kitchen, an electric bell, etc. But very attractive dolls houses may be had at much smaller sums-for so little as ten dollars and a half and so on, up- ward
 Recognizing that in New York few per- sons comparatively able to afford a whole house, owing to the ever growing population Santa has also provided very attractive single rooms for dolls, which may be bought furnished or unfurnished. It looks very much as if the board of Christmas tree land when one considers the tin kitchens, butcher shops and other centers for the distribution of doll food. Even in the new model flats it would be hard to find such wonderfully sanitary kitchens. No hospital dispensary could be cleaner than the dolls butcher shops. They are all equipped with tilng and | enamel, and not even drop of sawdust blood disfigures the dolls steaks and chops.
 Dolls Must Bathe.
 It Is with something of a feeling of 1 terror also that view the tremendous preparations for personal cleanliness on the part of the dolls. Bath tubs, shower baths and laundry outfits occupy a large section of the dolls part of the toy shop hoo fftt1 al md a affairs, but they bring visions not alto gether pleasing of wet woolly dogs and dollies whose roses have faded with too many ablutions. One wonders whether they are only doll bluff which the little ladies have provided so that they can talk enthusiastically of their cold tub. Or perhaps doll rouge nowadays Is washable l The realm of the kindergarten occupa- tions grows apace in the toy world, and this year among the clay modelling the | sewing sets, drawing sets, bead baskets and iron work there Is to be found some 1 thing to delight particularly the heart of every boy.
 1 Who, in early youth, has not rejoiced to take apart, quite unauthorized, the family clocks and the watches of his elders? Who has not undergone untold suffering to gratify this passion to see "the wish go round" as one young person expressed it, on being caught red handed?
 The kindergarten persons have stepped l this year out of purely educational bounds here, and, under the guidance of Santa l Claus. made toy to answer this universal yearning. This toy Is a clock which comes in a box in many pieces, with all l the delectable works exposed and capable 1 of being handled. It may be put together by the child, after which 1t will keep good time. It can be taken apart and put to- gether easily.
 Toys for the Boys.
 For the boys also there are voracous | tiger targets, at which balls are thrown, l which the tiger swallows with almost as | much joy as if they were contracts, and 1 for nice healthy little boys there seems to be in the Santa pack a particularly large assortment of very fancy drums and | horns, such as are calculated to drive maiden aunts out of town for the holi- l days.
 In short. 1t promises to be pretty lively | Christmas If Mr. Santa has his way Automobiles Popular.
 | MT. Santa's pack this year demonstrates | unquestionably that the automobilist is as rampant in toyland as in the world of | humans and grownups. Fashionable doll | beauties, formerly content to toddle along | on their mechanical walking apparatus at I the rate of half yard in an hour and a | half are now vociferously demanding the 1 latest thing in toy ears" Many of those shown are really wonderful little pieces of workmanship. They glide along smoothly. They are equipped with all the outward seeming of a real automobile. Those which are large enough to hold children and which are run as tricycles mount in | price to $100 The small mechanical auto mobiles for dolls have also every virtue, among other things being warranted to make a noise. Toy science has not as yet succeeded in reproducing artificially the delicate gasolene odor beloved of the automobilists, but Santa is busy working on this problem now.
 Not only the automobiles themselves, but | the automobile outfits are also luxurious and expensive. There are lanterns, trav- cling baskets, robes and automobile clothes in great abundance and variety Coats, hats and gloves for the dolls to wear in automobiles made most elab orately, just like the real ones, of fur, rub Der, etc. At one toy store short stter auto mobile cJats for medium sized dolls were on sale for s11. They were made care fully as if for a real person.
 Doll Debutante.
 The debutante of the doll world this sea- son is d young person who flirts. walks and says Papa" and Mamma Surely these | are enough accomplishments for any debu- tante, in or out of the doll world. When it is added that this doll debutante is as beautiful as she Is accomplished. it is all most needless to say that 1t Is predicted in the toy stores that this young woman will secure the cash of the season. The only trouble Is that in the enormous toy store where she has made her debut the pre- ponderance of the feminine is even more remarkable than in a New England vil- lage There are hosts of sailor boys, shep- herd boys and little drummer boys, but Santa Claus and Simple Simon the only representatives of adult manhood. and Simple Simon is rather young.
 Besides the doll who firts. the doll with fine figure Is also new conner to the toy world In the old days of sawdust bodies lady dolls and the smallest of waists and the most elegant of forms. The kid bodied dolls also were exquisite examples of what is fine in womanly contours. Indeed, they transcended the sawdust beauties in their -Y.-