The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-30
Airshlps to Be Popular Toys
For the Holiday Trade.
COOK AND PEARY GAMES ALSO
Roosevelt In Africa Brings Out Minia-
ture Wild Animals - Small 6irds
Made to Emulate the Boomerang.
Teddy Bears Not Out Of Fashion.


Iy at the approach OF the Christmas
season. will not be disappointed this
year. as different popular inventions
have been reproduced in toys.
Aeroplane toys promised last sum.
mer by the inventors, following upon
the successful flights OF the ayiators.
will soon make their appearance In the
shop windows ready for the Christmas
trade. Most OF these are imported from
France. and the models that will be
shown are as numerous as those ex-
Mbitcd IN recent races at Rheims.
France.
Some Of these aeroplane toys are
very expensive, wholesaling at $40
apiece These are really toys for the
grownups or for boys who have real
mechanical skill. There are others,
however, made to retail at as low
price as 80 to so cents These aero
planes are made for actual flying. the
motive power coming from the ordi
nary steel spring power familiar to toy
handlers or in the real cheap toys from
strong rubber bands that are wound
around an axis and send the machine
whirling for short distance
Pink Pig That Squcaks.
The Teddy bear has not been rele
gated entirely to the rear by Billy Pos.
sum or the polar bear that was let
loose In toyland when Peary and Cook
began their controversy. The up to
date Teddy bear OF the French make
winds up and Is calculated to indulge
In a number of ludicrous somersaults.
Another member Of the bear family
evolved by the French inventors is Of
large stature and when wounG stake
majestically about the room. moving
enc leg at a time in true quadruped
fashion, with his red tongue loIling out
over brass muzze This toy is made
to sell at So The pink pig is another
mechanical toy. cost 81. which will sell
we'll 1t squeaks, rolls its pink eyes
ard runs around in circles.
other foreign toys that are believed
TO have big sale ahead are birds.
many in the lfgenesses OF pigeons,
their heads and COO Some OF the
smaller birds are made to emulate the
boomerang. returning to the hand after
brief flight.
The automobile and the motorboat,
models of which appeared In toyand
soon after the first machines appeared,
are again 10 be big sellers. Electric
toys Of bewildering profusion are be
Ing put on the market, One that halls
from France consists of a number OF
mimic soldiers, who are made 10 SO
through various maneuyers by cleo
trlcity secured by the familiar medium
of cord and socket
New Metal For Toys.
The solid tendency of the German
toy manufacturer is illustrated in what
Is called 1.-THE aerial navigation depart
ment" The Germans have discovered
new composition known as meto-
plast. which is harder aud permits OF
finer finish as we'll as rougher han
ding than did the old lead and tin
toys. The toy spoken OF is made in
ten series, to retail at from 10 cents
up to So The collection is very COM
Dlete at the latter price. There is the
model of the dirigible airship. with
officers and regulars Of the aerial navi-
CATION battalion, now distinctive part
Of the German army. One officer Ia
using a portable telephone, another
field glass and another is telegraphing.
There is a regular heliograph station
aud even a shed for the airship to be
stored In.
The spinning egg and the jumping
frog are two new games that promise
TO prove popular. BY means of string
an egg is made to spin. and the count
is made from the number upon which
1t finally rests The frog game con-
sists OF catapult that propels frog
agalnSt netting. When properly
made the frog catches upon this net
ting, and the count is based on where
1t lights.
An Arctic Game.
North pole games viii be legion. al
though most Of them are based on old
IDEAS For instance, q board Is mark
ed with the route Of the various ex-
plorers, and the game is to determine
which by series Of movements can
reach the pole and return first in
safety BY means Of another board
the question Of who reached the pole
drst. Peary or Cook. can easily be set
tied A globe is half circled by two
sets Of figures running from one to six.
Peary and Cook. the players. get six
markers each. and these raKe turns in
covering the figured disks II Peary
leads out by putting marker on. six
and Cook Follows with one on three,
be announces the total Of nine. and the
game IS continued until won. the vic
tor being tie man who can first reach
thlriy-one with bis marker
The presence OF Roosevelt In Africa
has also given the toymakers ideas. and
reproductions OF bull hlppopotamuses.
elephants, lions and the like are many.