The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-15
TOYS ARE AID
TO CHILDREN
Some PLaythingS Help
to Develop In1ag-
indtiOn.

IN the sreat world which Is called
Toyiand II has been said that tbers a.
three different kinds OF toys: Thu
Look-Ons. the Do-Nothings. and the
Do-Withs. ''' no
The Look-Ons are the sort that do
All the playing themselves after wind
ing up with key ali one has TO do is
20 gaze upon their mechanical antics.
me Do-Nothings do not do the slightest
things themselves, and really It isn't
much run to play with them. But the
DO wins are different; they lust seem
70 De inviting you to come and NAV
with them. pay
HeOpie VINO are grown up and who are
gers sad though Il makes them
s'illeuInes, to the happy land of child
iloOo, Incline toward the I,,ok-Ous ana
me Do-Nothings, because thew prafer
% SIT in chairs and press buttons or
pun Strings while the toys do All ths
paying. But children, who are really
me Wlsest people IN the world uybe-s
toys are concerned, want to take mar
~ the sport themselves. Doing 80
stimulates their imagination, and mag
-. - Il Is the power that makes All the
c 1-ilsi Suce between a very charming
soiio ana a somewhat humdrura one
OV-' Win TOYS.
The Do-With chndren-lues - -.
and boys. as we'll as the men ana ~
men, have houses built espee3aIl,- eo,-
them. and they have chairs ana 49,,
ana sofas In which they seem to he e.,
comfortable. although, Of course re-,
uoA say very much about II Ana
they have horses TO drive and carts
% ride IN and stables which ara the
very thing for all the vehicles as well
as Tor the cows and sheen. the MICS
ana dogs. the colts and calves v-b5ch
make up the live stock OF the family
Ihere Is furniture which. made after
tne fashions OF Chippendale and other
oia forms. cannot fail TO Re uneon-
sciously mentally helpful. aud the hoy
ana girl the man and the Woman. are
SO joined that they may sit down or
stand Just Ike any real persons.
90 ne 9s animals arc just the best sort
o One most satisfactory bre 4
COWS are warranted 10 fyIv,.ssE al e.
mix Ihat the family can -assFF,l,, ffEa
anu the horse is gentle, but evi7e1fTv
I.,isI- enough to pull all OF them who
"5sn 70 90 a-riding at once
me St Bernard dog is q YER, faitb
III taLil4naIs who Is traiHed 70 protect
sle pos or girl whenever hey need his
services, the pigs are Of the s-r,r+f.-.s
sort, the sheep of the neeJSesf sn5 -
tSso.lt seems to be just on the 7oin+ ~
klcking up his heels and surinfins, 1890,
the field. - '-is a-IOss
Part of Scheme.
me toys may be bought one or
lew at q time, but each Is mart ~ .
scheme, and with them all or even with
several the child may work out svstar,s
OF play that viii inspire II rnentslIv
perhaps in something Of the manned
his gifts u III
The child in its play may carry out
= 80 uShce OF events, and that Is tie
I3undatlons so the students OF Dsv
choisy tell U.s. Of logical thought s16
acuon- In making the TOYS no efforf
has been made to s.rartfs1sis -; - :. LOT
were, but essential charsArterisfics ars
emphasized and the rest AIeff IN fbs
cIlId imagination. For fssta1ce f51a
heads OF the animals do not move ss
me MAKER says that the child would he
apL 70 become interested in moving
them and forget the play scheme.
Cafah DAche was perhaps the first
o. the reaIy great artists who devoted
IllinselI 10 toys 10 the exclusion of
everything else after he had become
interested IN making them, but his ere-
auonS were rather more attractive IA
lellow artists than they could be to anv
child IN these new toys. on the con-
LraTy. there is every appeal to the bud
ding mind, and certain possibilities of
play not 70 be found in the cast-fron
OBJECTS with which several genera lions
have bsen forced to content fheuseIves
They are all strongly made OF wood,
generally in three-ply material are
strong, and are IN excellent color and
proportion.