The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-09
P%LAYTHINGS OF ROYALTY.
A Collection of Youthful Posses,
SiOnS of King and Queen.

There is a large room at Bucking-
ham Palace where the toys which va
rtous members of the royal family have
played with are stored, says CasselPs
Journal. This interesting collection of
playthings was made at the suggestion
of King Edward shortly after his
majesty's accession t. the throne.
In the collection is a beautiful silver
model of the first Paris Exhibition, pre-
sented to the Princess Victoria on her
tenth birthday by the late Empress
Frederick. The toy is said to be worth
many thousands of pounds, and, in adj
dition to the beauty of it's workman
ship, derives a special value from the
fact that 1t is the only complete model
Of the Paris Exhibition.
Even more valuable is the model fig
ure of a diver clad In fun diving cos
tune, which was presented by the Ger
man empress a few years ago to Prince
Edward of Wales. The model is made
from the purest beaten gold, and was
the work of a Polish artist, who spent
ten years in making 1t.
Special interest, of course. attaches
to the toys which the king played with
as a young child. Among them is the
celebrated rocking horse once known in
the royal nursery as Jupiter, which
was given to the king by the prince
consort when his majesty was five
years Did. 1t is a notified gray little
steed with a splendid flowing name. 1t
stands On steel rockers and the saddle
is stuffed with the finest hair. On the
neck may be seen the word Edward"
carved with great care by the present
king of England.
The kings favorite toy is to be seen
in this collection. 1t Is a gun-metai
cannon, ID inches long, and stands on a
steel carriage, and was presented to his
majesty by the Duke of Cambridge
when the former vas Z years old. but
the king was not allowed 70 make use
of Ii until three years later.
A gun range was then selected in the
Great Park at Windsor, where the
king, under the careful instruction and
guidance of an old a~rtilleryman, used to
make practise with this fine toy.
The little boy, who was to become one
day king of England, grew very skilIfui
in the use of the weapon and at last n
day, very much to his joy, made a bulls
eye In the target at the full length OF
the range, 200 yards.
Perhaps the most interesting of tho
toys In the royal collection was Queen
favorite doll. 1t is robed
in white, and the garments
were all made by its royal owner whe
she was a very small girl, and many
years before she had any idea that she
would n day become England's queen.
Her majesty had not a large number
of toys as a young child, but she took
very excellent care of them, and 1t Is
said that she broke only one during all
her childhood; she dressed her W dolls
with great simplicity, the garments
we'll and carefully made.
Several of the toys. by the way, in the
collection were made by their royal
owners. For example, there Is a wooden
model of a fire engine made by the
of Wales, a wheelbarrow con-
by the late Duke of Edinburgh
a wooden locomotive, the work of
the Duke OF ~Connaught. There Is a big
of old drawing books, in
which the most remarkable specimensl
are those executed by the Princess VIC
toria, They afford evidence that IL the
had not been the daughter OF
The King of England abe could have
made a good income as an artist.