Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-09
Wonderful Toy Displays in Big Stores
Bring Xmas Delight to Little Ones

dows and the grocery wagon doesn't
come up to the door loaded with
Christmas trees instead of eatables, bui
at the same tirne one doesn't have to
be a Sherlock Holmes TO see the many
evidences of the coming 25th.
Wee. happy-faced children. lead their
mothers toward the store windows and
refuse to move until dragged away
with gentle force. The little girls peep
shyly round their mothers skirts I'M
til they see a promising window. II
it is filed with dolls all the shyness
disappears and the tot pushes, shoves
n stands on tip-toes for a better
view.
The little boy also edges his way
through the crowd until he, too, can get
a view. When he sees a window full
of dolls he shifts disdainfully and with
q muttered grunt of disgust quickly
pulls his mother way. Dolls-huh!
He wants to see guns and sleds and SOL
diers and mems things.
You can imagine the plight of the
mother when she brings brother and
sister, who are already beginning to
deny themselves the real pleasures
they enjoy for the sake of being
good so Santa Claus Won't lose the
address. That is if you have a fervid
imagination. Mother doesn't have to.
She spends an afternoon showing the
children the sights. Then she returns
heme, sinks into a chat YEARLY, calls
fo- a headache powder, and lies down.
When father comes home n tells wife
there is going to be an exciting time
| down at Nicaragua in the next few
weeks she gives him a plying glance.
But the toy department is the place
to find the real Yule-tide cheer. Spend
an hour in a big department store and
| you'll become so saturated with the
| spirit that joy will fairly bubble from
you and you'll almost think o are
a child again. The first few minutes
is spent gazing tolerantly at the crowd;
In the next quarter of an hour you be-
come interested, and before the limit
is reached You find yourself gazing.
open-mouthed and wide-eyed, at me-
chanical fire engines. large Santa
Clauses and other childish things.
The toy departments are literally
bursting with good things. AS usual
the mechanical toy holds the children
and old folks fascinated. This year
there Is a bigger variety thar ever.
Airships there are that really fly, at
tached to a string, of course. They
are shown in all kinds of models.
Bleriot, Latham, Curtiss and Wright,
are given out as the names of those
who occupy the seats in the miniature
flyers. Most of the models are, OF
course, built on the Wright plan. The
toy-makers do not seem to have a bit
of fear that they will be prosecuted for
infringement. Why should they? Isn't
Santa Claus backing them? The Yep
pelin dirigible Is also in evidence, with
the count, his face expressionless,
grasping the wheel.
In one department store a sad-face6
young MAJ carefully explains to the
eve~r-increasing crowd that at last the
acme of mechanical toy-making has
been reached, one that can't be broken.
This interests the parents; the running
of the toys on the wide counter fasci-
mates the youngsters and the cash girl
does the rest.
In another shop g girl sits all day
f~ashioning animals. birds. flowers. in
fact. anything known to natural history.
or unnatural history, u of a putty
like substance that is guaranteed to be
always piiable, never get hard, educate,
please. interest and even be good to
eat. This interests the little girls ex-
ceedingly, but the boys, when they
hear tha word educate. that means
study. you know, dodge way quickly.
Guns for theirs.
And when they see the guns! Eyes