Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-22
QUAINT: OBJ MREapEsS

report to their employers. and inventors Oh
patterns get to work. Where the toys are
to be made by machinery. new devices are
prepared by the machinists, and for tnae
part of the toy production that is left TO
hand labor new samples are sent OUT
This Difference to the American boys
taste is in the toy market OF NurempeTg'
where it is not alone the victories OF Charle-
magne. Caesar. Napoleon, Won Moltke and
Wellington that are recalled by the palntea
metal soldiers There also can be oought
George Washington, Gen. Grant ana
Teddy Roosevelt soldier. the latter slio ,ehan
at the battle of San Juan Hill ne foushe d.
the head of his Rough Riders.
Nuremberg has 200 factories IN winch
toys are sold by the wholesale. me sleasei
ma rt of this trade Is made Of metal soldiers.
No other city has been able to produce
them as cheaply and as WELL and little mas
been done to disturb the monopoly
: Nor do the changing times seem to anect
the love of the American boy for soldiers,
and the equipment of war as the ldeai play
things. . L.,
The love of strife and destruction is IN
tCrn In the American boy, and the age OF
knickerbockers seems only to heiGhten the
warlike impulse. Yet what could be more
natural than that the future foot ball play
ers of the nation should first indulge a love
of strife by playing with metai soioieis'
Deeds of Peace.
But Nuremberg does not confine itself to
the worship of Jove. Deeds of peace ana
virtues domestic are also commemorated.
Churches, affairs and religious toys, with
Christmas significance. doll houses, racing
stables, farms, streets, wagons, cars au-
tontbles and trains. everything that can
be cheaply punched or nodded out or me'ai
come from the quaint old German city.
The next American child you see piayins
with any of the metal toys enumerated IN
he above list you may safely conclude mas
been doing business at long rahse Will
Nuremberg. ~.
Just as Nuremberg is the home OF the the
metal toy. it is to Sonneberg that one must
go to find the Santa Claus assistants "no
turn out the wooden toys.
From, January to December in Sonneberg
% 600 persons. men, women ana ciln lt.i
work like beavers on toys that are destined
to go all over the world. but more especially
to England and the United States.
The town has no other source or revenue
but it needs none Handhng Mno!e ae
partment of Santa Claus business Is ue-
cidedly remunerative.
OF one variety of dolls alone more than
. COO OOO are made yearly and as there are
some fifty odd styles of dolls shipped from
it can be seen that a good!y
part of Santa Claus pack Is filled IN the OLD
German town in the midst OF the 1apleo
BLACK Forest so identified with the myth
Of the fatherland.
Schools for Toy Making.
The Christmas trade yearly nets Some
berg s5.OOO.OOO, a big sum for town OF
only 5000.
Sonueberg SO carefully protects its mo-
nopoly of the wooden-toy business that with
In the last few years manual framing
school has been established in order that
the young Sonneberg idea may shoot IN
the right direction.
Here the boys and girls of the town are
taught, not writing, reading. arlthmelc-
no. the ordinary schools can look out Tor
that. They get what is far more essenti az
how to make toys.
Dolls will sell when the product of every