The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-24
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 Advance For Future Of 7belr Bab1eS
Must Learn Make Own ToyDevelopes Imagination and Talent-Letter From Clever Little
 Girl Out West
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

For some people the Payne tariff on toys may have it's terrors but not for Mr and Mrs. Newly-Wed.
 I chanced to drop in for a little call with them a few days ago and although their Young Hopeful Is only months old and doesn't know it's chubby little hands from its toes, MT. and Mrs. New ly-Wed were planning out the most event. full career as is the wont of young parents and everything from whom the small boy was to marry to the college he was to attend, and what his profes- sion in life should be, was carefully mapped out and arranged.
 The little girl scarcely came in for a large share of future planning, too. One of the first subjects that was hit upon was the question of toys and tho proud father expressed himself as fol- lows:
 T consider it all a mistake to give children costly and fine toys to break up and destroy. In the first place 1t gives the child a mistaken idea of life, and be- sides deadens all originality and initia- tive. I, for one, do not propose that my little Elizabeth shall have dozens of ex- penslve French dolls. dressed out like fashion plates, with the latest gew- gaws and trinkets''
 But what is she to play with, and amuse herself with?" said Mrs. Newly Wed, as she fondly hung on the words of her better half
 ''She shall have as many dolls as she wishes" replied MT. Newly-Wed, but she shall also have a little work basket, fitted out like her mothers and she shall learn how to make her own dolly s clothes.'
 T think you are right" was the wifely reply, flor then she will appreciate them all the more, and besides 1t will teach her how to sew and plan, and all that sort of thing, which will help her in her own affairs later en-"
 I couldn't help getting into the con versation at this point and remarked that When I was a child of all the dolls I possessed the one I loved the most was a little old sawdust one, with a china head and for which l sewed like mad from morning until night"
 'Yes," replied Mrs. Newly-Wed, q have the same sort of sweet reoollections. I remember, too, all the furniture I made out of cigar boxes."
 q am afraid the naughty beauties of French extraction laid unoticed upon the shelf of the spare room most of the time because my partiality to my little old sawdust doll was so marked that I treated the others more like a step- mother than a real one," I said. ''The creations of ones own mind and hand" interpolated MT. Newly-Wed, "are treasured more than anything that they can buy. Why, when I was a boy, I used to whittle and plunder and devise and execute the most remarkable toys. The ingenious mechanical toys from the shops only appealed to meaina smuch as I could pull them to pieces, and find out how they were made and put together. l remember there was little creek that ran through the country town I lived in and I built me a ship which I called 'Co- | lumbia, the Gem of the Ocean, I used tt | sail her on the water every afternoon | after school to the admring gaze of doz- ems of spectators and I was as proud as Dr. Cook Is of discovering the north pole"
 'Then, there Is another thing about this