The Forrest City times., 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 inquisiton and the thrilling epic of the times of Charles ", has for four hundred years more been the center of the chldrens faryland. It has been and is the nucleus of Christmas happiness for the youth cf every place in the Occident and its charm ks the perpetual one of joyous creation which de- Fights in planning the amusement Of little people.
 sn the factories they will tell you that 72 00O,- GOO marks (S1S,000 0O0) worth of pleasure is sent out from Nuremberg every year, and that s5.5oo. 900 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 fine last touches performed by special artists. Even now In the factories the old spirit of an almost consecrated enthusiasm lives and is evi- dent in the interest of the village artisans for Cetr craft Not merely the treason Of bread and butter goes toward the making of those marvel ous 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, sensitiyeness of perception which is remarkable
 Follow the lurching worn curves of the Al hrecht t-Durerstrasse, and you come to of the snany homes of this Nuremberg spirit Tn a min Stature red-roofed house. wedged in among hun. sred squat brown huts. live two old men-broth- srs. of sixty-fve and seyenty-whose white beads are constantly bent over small circles of wood-shaping. pairing, carving painting.
 All day they sit there sometimes all night tolng the delicately ornamented dolls edsshes which perhaps you have bought as a small fnsiSnihcant thing. just this afternoon for your email daughters tree.
 You looked at them carelessly: they were not especially original attractive and you showed them into your bag with haIfhesitatiug accept ance. thinking that maybe they would please ca Ericious Dorothy How could you know that back tn the village of Always Christmas old hands had Fashioned those trivial plates and pitchers old eyes had strained with loving anxiety over those Zine traceries of coumbine. and old hearts had warmed over those completed triaes with the same thrill of the master painter over his bestq
 But this was true Indeed nearly all If the simple wooden toys constructed by hand in come humble volkshause which goes to make up she aggregate creative force of Santa Claus workshop Take the tiny sets of soldiers the dolls chairs and tables the painted wooden ami. snals whose realism is delight to all children actual or grown up These are fashioned in homes. sometimes by the efforts of whole fam lilies. but most often by children themselves
 Sixteen is the age limit for child labor in the factories. but no young person is prohibited from assisting his parents at home provided he spends the required period of time at school So that many of those playthings which give most han piness Co the children of America have been made by the children of Nuremberg And if babes must work. what work could one find for fhem more appropriate or more pleasurable than