The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-08
TOYS ALREADY
ARE ON DISPLAY
FARGO STORES BLOSSOM OUT
WITH NEW NUMBERS TO At
TRACT THE CHRISTMAS BUY
ERs-AERoPLANEs, BI-PLANEs,
ETC, THE RAGE.

Aeroplanes, monoplanes. biplanes
and all the air craft that grown
people have been so intently watch
ing, have been made in miniature for
toys and will constitute the novelties
in Christmas toyland this year. There
are airships that fly and some that
don't fly, except by the aid Of string
suspended from the ceiling.
No adequate idea of the amount of
toys sent in can be gained from the
statement that since July $4,000
worth of toys have passed through
Minneapolis hstoms office for the
northwest.
This is the foreign value placed on
the toys, and when freight and duty
of 35 per cent is added, the value OF
imported toys to the northwest
amounts to a high figure Considering
that these toys sell at retail all the
way from cents to SIS, the number
and variety can be guessed at.
About half the toys sold in Ameri-
ca come from Germany. Until recent
years the percentage of foreign toys
was greater. Within the last few
years America has been exporting
some toys to Germany They are
wooden toys and consist of the
Humpty Dumpty circus family, main
ly.
For boys this Christmas the great
est thing, the airship aside, is the
electrical railway. This contrivance
IS made on the third rail theory and
with tracks, engine and switches
complete, will sell from 1925 to $15
One beauty of this toy Is that a small
part may be purchased and other
coaches and equipment added from
time to time. There are semaphores,
tunnels, bridges. curves. switches,
stations, boxcars, cattle cars and all
railroad equipment in this Qutfit.
Real hair eyebrows for dolls take
the place of the penciled brows of for
mer years. This is the work of for
eigners where labor and the fussing
it takes to attach the hair are cheap
err, and yet the price of the finished
product kept within reach Of the aver
age Christmas shopper.
In the animal line, the soft-bodied
varieties are in the lead. From the
shop of Margaret Stieff, who invented
the Teddy, bear, comes group of ami
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ural colors and look very real--as
might be expected as the prices range
from IS to SIS.
Moving picture machines take tho
place of the old magic lanterns. They
are arranged to attach to electric
lights, have the estandard film attach
ments and retail at from $3.50 to SIS.
The microscope is another in this line.
Postcards may be shown to advantage
and these machines are at varying
prices.
Baseball and football may be play
cd by sets of games on display. In
the baseball game the ball is thrown
by pulling string; the batter taps
with a metal bat and the score Is
ieckoned from the position the knock
ed ball takes on the board. The spin
ming needle is used in the football TO
run up the score, the player advance
ing the BAH, punting or being penal
lzed, according to where the needle
stops.
Roosevelt in the jungle and the
Jungle animals are all shown. The
Teddy bears and Humpty Dumpty
family are still considered. good, sell
ors Dolls with wooden heads, called
assortments. The distinguishing fea-
asortments. The distinguishing fea-
ture of these dolls is the natural ex-
preston and the claim that they are
:ndestructible.