The Detroit times., 1910-12-21
NEWS FROM TOYLAND
I.-PLANNING THE TOYS
By FREDERIC ! HASKIN

The toy designers ever since nave
been trying TO find something which
will be as popular as the Teddy Bear,
but without success. Every year he
finds new worlds TO conquer and
meets with as warm reception as
In his native America. Last year
England took the craze and II Is
said that 100000 Teddy Bears were
sold in that country during the year,
! which means that there are more
! toy bears than children in England.
! The English dressed theirs and Of
! ten sold two heads with a single
! body One was a dolls head and the
other a bear head, so that the child
could have doll or bear, as II pre-
ferred This year Russia and Japan
have taken a liking TO the Teddy
Bear
One OF the most charming animal
stories OF the day has a Teddy Bea'
as one OF the principal actors. Miss
Phyllis Gilmore of New Orleans,
owns a dog whose surly traits won
for him the name of 'FerociouS
When puppy he had little bear
cub as a playmate. The cub died and
Ferocious was disconsolate. One day
walking down the street with his
mistress, he spied a Teddy Bear in
a window. He jumped through the
window and brought the bear out
with him. Miss Gilmore paid for
the new found pet, and wherever
the dog goes he insists upon car
rying his Teddy Bear with him.
So careful is the designer O. toys
not 70 overlook historical event,
new invention, or new fad, that
the archeologist of the future might
rebuild the civilization OF the pre2-
ent day upon the evidence OF the
toys OF the world He would find
toys which would tell OF the discov-
cry OF the North Pole, toys that would
tell OF the rise of the aeroplane and
the dirigible balloon, toys that would
proclaim the Roosevelt African hunt,
the Taft smile, the Merry Widow
nat and the hobble skirt.
The present year has witnessed
the designing of many new toys. One
of these is a rabbit concealed be
heath the head OF cabbage When
wound up the rabbit pokes out his
head. works il around, moves his
ears. opens his mouth and then goes
back into his burrow TO the tune
of The Sand Man" from the play
of The Dollar Princess" There is
another toy known as the Roosevelt
uutCracker, warranted TO crack any
nut that ever Santa Claus placed
in a Christmas stocking. A little
flying machine. known as tn e"High
Flyer" is proving very useful nov
city as we'll as popular toy. II
is constructed on the helicoptic prin-
ciple and will fly six hundred feet
into the air or quarter Of a mile
horizontally. Aviators use it TO de-
termine the direction and velocity
OF the wind, preliminary to flight.
and the average boy finds IL to be
an entertaining toy
The child who has found delight
in a sand bank mill will welcome
the arrival OF a toy which will add
now charm TO play time in the sand.
II consists of large hopper with
release valve, an inclined railway
with "A sand car, and a box into which
TO dump the carloads OF sand There
are also little pie plates for making
mud pies.
One of the most interesting TOYS
in the world is owned by q Washing.
ton government clerk II is toy
thCdter MADE Ter his little girl dur.
ing his odd moments II has full
equipment OF actors and actresses,
acrobats, clowns. performing animals
and everything one might see III "A
high class vaudeville theater. His
little daughter frequently entertains
her friends at theater parties I'm her
own private theater. Her father has
ransacked the whole realm OF toy.
dom In his search for the profession.
al people who make up the characters
ON this little stage.
The present tendency in toy de.
signing is to make toys which will
carry into the playroom the theories
Of the kindergarten. To disguise tie
labor OF learning In sugar-coated pills
OF play has been long the aim Of the
kndergartener To-day the woman who
wishes TO train her little girl IL the