Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-12-22
How thousands of Toys Are Made.

made all of his t0ys RS hdAd. Hae was before the days whom machin- cry was made to perform almost human actions and before everybody got so much money that they began to demand such expensive toys Tor the children.
 Santa Claus has followed the evo- Iueion of modern methods. He is captain of industry. He presldes over big factories in which there IS the constant whir of complicated machinery that turns out toys with astonishing swiftness. In the big gest of these workshops Santa Claus employees hundreds of assistants and keeps them busy all the year around making Christmas presents just for boys and girls. This great shop covers the greater of two city blocks. Scores of great printing presses rumble all day long, ma chimes of many sorts clank and whir and groan, and the result is nur- sey books by the tens of thousands, mountains of blocks fish games, soldier games steeple chase games. amsthous ,bn almuost otah.t m Little Red Riding Hood games, dis sected map games checkers-in fact almost all the games and toys that ! dllAght the little people of the nursery.
 In this big shop from one Christ mas to another, about one hundred adopted by Santa Claus, work con- stantly in an effort to bind up all the books that the boys and girls want at Christmas time. Here thousands and thousands of nur- sery books are folded and put in brightly colored backs in the course of year. But the day after Christ mas, when Santa Claus is all through with his work there is not one of all these stacks and heaps of books to be found in all the bindery, which takes up a good part of two floors of the building. All the books are printed in the shop, and here too, the paper for the books is coated and otherwise made ready. All the illustrations are made in the snop. Indeed, San ta Claus believes in himself doing everything connected with the books He wants them to be made right.
 Work All the Year Around.
 1t may sound strange to the boys and girln to hear that the toy fac tories are kept busy the year around But if they will stop to think they will know that all the toys sold for Christmas could not be made in a short time. This is the way the toy trade is handled: Right after the first of the year-probably the first week in January-the men nav ing charge of the toy departments of the big stores begin to buy for next Christmas, The toys that the children are hocking to see now were bought from the factories al most a year ago. The travelling salesman for the big toy factories having taken the order for the toys almost year ahead of the time the children begin to buy for Christmas the factories know just about what their trade is to be for the year They begin work turning out the toys Of course they make moro than their orders call for, because they know that many of the smaller dealers do not buy so far in advance
 The toy trade is a pretty good in leX to the country's condition fol in the years that the merchants arf prosperous and expect prosperity t. continue, they buy toys in large quantities for the following holi days. If the times are not goot and they fear the demand will no be be so heavy they buy more care fully. And about the first of No vember the factories begin to de liver the toys to the merchants, ant the later begin to make arrange ments for displaying them.
 "Above the Roll of the Drum."
 One of the regular Christmas joy. flor few m'nutes-is the beatins of the toy drum Christmas morning After it ceases to be joy mother k likely to ask: Good Gracious!
 wonder where all the drums com, from?"
 She wouldn't wonder if she were t see the inside of a toy drum factory
 The tin part of the drum is ben by machinery and then painted