The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-21
NEW YORK CHILDREN
Only Toys That Move Have Any
Chance Now

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The Toys Are Up-to-Date and Include
Aeroplanes, Electric Railways, and
the Most UD-to-Date Devices.
A letter from New York will inter
est those who are Interested IN n new
sort of toys that are on sale IN the
metropolis for Christmas 1t reads as
follows:
.What is home without an aero
pIane. an electric railway, and a mo-
tion-picture lantern? Not much. IN
deed. for the small boy, accoring to
this years Christmas display OF toys
Last seasons automobiles and the
once popular magic lantern are push
ed entirely into the shade by the Won
aers of this years mechanims.
CAS- for airships, just step up and
take your choice of the Zeppelin mod
els or the heavier-than-air machines,
biplanes, or monoplanes. There Is the
S and 10 cent store variety. which
works by tw ting an elastic band
with a pencil, n which makes a
genuine but somewhat brief and err
ratio flight. Then there are the ships
you make go by winding up a spring,
and still more seductive is the set
which invites the small boy to max
his own airship'' (only it happens to
be an aeropla All the possible
metal. springs. screws, and fixtures
needed are included in the set, and
the parents are assured that it is a
very instructive plaything, indeed. for
the sum of from $40 to $45.
Mind Trainers the Latest Toys.
Then there are mind trainers
which are warranted to teach the
youth Of the land how to build draw
bridges. travelling cranes. cable rail
ways pit-head scar. elevated jib
cranes. Eifel Towers, windmills, and
railway signals. It is agreed that it
takes a bright boy to construct a
bridge, but any child should be able
to compass the travelling crane.
LAS the toy buyer of one of the
largest establishments told the re-
porter. If you are going to catch the
eve of the American boy you must
give him things that go" Everything
Goes this year. either by wheels and
springs. and questionable but effec-
tive arrangement by motors or dry
batteries, which is much more eXolu-
sive. or by little gas engines, which
magic lanterns have had to try the
pace that kills. and this year brings
forth the m~Oving-picture
This year, the toy "~barkers," as the ir-
reverent call the scientific demontra-
tors. are all well posted on educational
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makes the baby laugh" and SO on,
which used to greet the ears Of pros
pectivc purchasers. Even this sea-
sons jumping jacks seem to have ac-
Uuired highly instructive eatureS
hitherto unsupported.
'DiSreearding the eternal principl"
that the American boy wants toys thai
do things, one German manufacturer
has put on the market trains of cars
which. If they are not life-size, are
certainly large for Harlem flat dimen-
siOns. The cars couple and uncouple
after the most approved but
the big freight cars are neglected for
the small electric railway in the next
aisle. One boy ont to be misled by
popular clamor, came over and exam
and said to the demonstrators with gen.
uiDe ~reproach in his voice, why. it
doesn't even go on tracks" After that
n barker barked in vain.
Trains That Run Now the Thing.
AS for the ca~s that go. there are
electric ones and spring ones, friction
trains and "pay-as-you-enter trOlleys.'
The usual arrangements of tracks.
switches. semaphores. stations. freight
yards, tunnels. hill-climbing trains,
and SO on. are there again this season
with improvements which. make it i'm
possible for last years railway to pass
for this yeas model But entirely new
and remarkable is q fire-engine ar
rangement. AS soon as this is set
going, the ladders on the ladder cart
begin to move. PefOre your very eyes
they erect themselves into a tall tower,
just as at a real fire. so +1at ~-7n
the truck cache the blazing build
the three small ladders are joined
In one tall piece to put up aeainst
it This is all done automatically after
the truck has started. Then. too. there
are "semi-wireless" telegraphs and
telephones.
where are the boats Of yester-year.
the sail boats which one could sail in
the bathtub? Why back in a corner.
or down in the stock room. possibly
bewailing their fall from favor. The
hated rival has appeared. only in this
case there is several of him. In q fine