Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-15
FOR THE AMUSEMENT
OF KING CHILDHOOD
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT PERVADES
THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD.
FROM NEW YORK.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
New York, Dec 15.-New York mer-
chants in all lines of trade report the
Christmas business of the week just
closed as of record breaking proper
tions. Persons who have edged their
way through the crowds on Sixth ave
nue., West Twenty-third street and
other leading thoroughfares in the
shopping district" are not inclined
to doubt the statement. The Christ
mas buying commenced early this
year and has reached its zenith during
the past few days. The streets are
congested with shoppers, the store
windows are filled with elaborate dis
plays, street "fakirs" line the curbs,
and other outward evidences are
abundant that the holiday season is
at hand. The hotel registers show the
presence of thousands of visitors here
from all parts of the country to select
choice gifts for relatives and friends at
home.
OF all the wealth and variety of
presents about to be given and eX-
changed no one line is quite so typical
of the Yuletide season as the gifts for
children. And this year the display
in the metropolitan stores seems more
bewildering than ever before. Toys
countless thousands of them-are to
be seen in the shop windows They
are of all varieties and calculated to
suit every infantile taste. They range
from the penny doll or whistle to the
imported article costing almost enough
to keep poor family an entire year.
A glance at the windows is convinc-
ing proof that the toymakers keep well
abreast of the times. Toy motor cars.
exactly copied from the full sized ma
chimes, are displayed in profusion, and
among the French novelties shown in |
a Twenty-third street toy bazaar is an |
automobile which, after being wound |
up, smoothly pursues its dashing |
course for some distance and then |
something going suddenly wrong with |
the machinery, leaps into the air and |
falls to pieces, throwing the toy pas.
sengers TO all points of the compass |
But one can in few moments replace |
the scattered pieces and reseat the
passengers ready for another wreck.
The Vanderbilt cup race has also
furnished the toymakers with ideas,
the small racers running around the
miniature track with picturesque real
.ity, horns blowing and drivers in cog
giles and dust coats. Another novelty
in the same line is an armored mill
tary automobile provided with a minia-
ture machine gun ready to fire in all
directions.
Among the other striking novelties
to be found in the toy wonderland are
trolley lines, steam engines, mechan-
ical workmen at their tasks, steam
railroads with trains going at full
speed, steamboats, on miniature ponds,
and wireless telegraph outfits. For
the outdoor boys there are sleds.
skates, hockay outfits, and a myriad
of other things. The novelty in the
sporting line is new invention called
the snow bike
In the animal kingdom there are to
be had thousands of Teddy bears
of all sizes, kinds and prices. Then
there are elephants, lions, camels and
tigers, with such star performers as
'Wisewinkers," the real horse that
understands all the jokes, the trick
mule Maud" and dozens of Others
For the girls there is the usual as
sortment of dolls of all sizes, colors
and degrees of social rank, from the
rag doll at five cents to the exquisite
French creation ,hat can not be had
ior less than a hundred dollars For
he little housekeepers there are doll
palaces, in every respect miniatures
Of truly houses, all fully furnished
and fitted.