Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-12-16

greater number of all the toys manufactured
come from Nuremberg.
The ancient feudal city, around which cluster
the grim traditions of the inquisition and the
thrilling epic of the times of Charles W. mas LOT
four hundred years or more been the center VI
the chidren's fairyand. 1t has been and is the
nucleus of Christmas happiness for the youth
of every place in the Cccident, and It's cnarm
is the perpetual of joyous creation which de-
lights in planning the amusement of little people.
Tn the factories they will tell you that 10000
600 marks ($1SOOo,OO0) worth of pleasure Is
sent out from Nuremberg every year, and that
* 5oo 600 Of this export is for the benefit OF
Young America Only few years ago all OF the
necessary labor for this immense production was
done by hand and much of the finishing and hhe
last touches are performed by special artlsts'
Even now in the factories the old spirit OF al
almost consecrated enthusiasm lives and Is eVl
dent in the interest of the village arusans ~,
their craft. Not merely the reason OF bread ana
butter goes toward the making OF those marVer
GUS walking dolls, those phenomenal speaking
picture books those thousand and one games that
have called for all the imaginative as well as
practical genius Of these honest German peasant
folk Rather has their unique industry called for
and developed in them romance, sensitiveness
of perception which is remarkable
Follow the lurching, worn curves OF the Al
brecht- Durerstrasse, and you come to one or the
many homes of this Nuremberg spirit IN min
!ature red-roofed house, wedged in among nun
dred squat brown huts, live two old men-broth
ers of sxty-fve and seventy-whose White
heads are constantly bent small circles of
wood-shaping, pairing, carving. painting
All day they sit there, sometimes all night.
toiling over the delicately ornamented dolls
dishes which perhaps you have bought, as small
Insignificant thing, just this afternoon for your
small daughters tree.
You looked at them carelessly; they were not
especially original or attractive and you showed
them into your bag with Misunderstanding accept
ance thinking that maybe they would please ca
PRECIOUS Dorothy How could you know that BACK
In the village of Always Christmas old hands mad
fashioned those trivial plates and pitchers old
eyes had strained with loving anxiety over those
fine traceries of coumbine and old hearts had
warmed over those completed trifes with the
same thrill of the master painter over his best!
But this was true. Indeed, nearly all of the
simple wooden toys are constructed by hand, In
some humble volkshause which goes to make uI
the aggregate creative force of Santa Claus
workshop. Take the tiny sets of soldiers, the
dolls chairs and tables, the painted wooden ami
mails whose realism is delight to all children
actual or grown up. These fashioned II
homes, sometimes by the efforts of whole fam
lilies, but most often by children themselves.
Sixteen is the age limit for child labor in thu
factories, but no young person Is prohibited from
assisting his parents at home, provided he SPENDS
the required period of time at school, So tina
many of those playthings which give most hap
piness to the children of America have beel
made by the children of Nuremberg. And
babies must work, what work could one find TO
them more appr Saate or more pleasurable thai