Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-18
BOY CAN PLAY NOW
Big Red Engine Has Made Him
Full of Happiness.
OTHER TOYLESS CHILDREN
To Be Found in the Institutions Not
So Well Known.
WAYS TO FIND THEM OUT
Phone Book Gives Names-Instruc-
tive Visiting Nurses Can Tell
Some More.
WAYS TO FIND THEM OUT

have all the toys that kind-hearted peo-
pie have taken out of well-stocked nurs-
cries for his special benefit he would be
the head of the secondhand toy trust
and have the fun market cornered all for
his own small self.
However, he was not picked out as
sample for his own sake alone. He was
Just a typical little orphan boy without
TOYS He doesn't need or want all the
toys in the city-but he does, or, ratner'
he did need just a few.
He has a load of them now. 1t wasn't
long after The Stars story of this little
man had been read when there was
great scurrying in toy boxes about the
city. The next morning The stars tele-
phone rang constantly to find out just
where that boy is.
Boy Has Toys Now.
INT for the benefit of those kind peo-
ple let it be said that the Boy-Wlth-One-
| Building Block is happy with toys that
were sent to him in hurry. But there
are still many, many little boys and girls
who are playing around today with the
remains of some comic supplement LOT
their entire toy-treasury. -.
People want to know where are these
children They ring up SOIIle oOSiooS o""
we'll known institution and find that there
are enough toys there to last all summit
Then thew say to themselves that the
nov with-one- building block is take'
pure and simple ;,o
when Ralph Pratt, secretary to Commas
| sioner Johnston, gave him fre engine
big. red and with horses that actuany
| gallon, they would not think ne was al
| imaginary boy. man
| who discovered this boy an automoDie
| full of toys. Most of them went TO tue
| ward of a certain hospital where niue
| sick boys and girls need toys TO heip
| them get well and happy again.
His Picture Taken.
| Rut the fire engine, which was boy s
| tov if ever one was made, went straight
| tn the boy-with one-building- block He Is
such a public character now that Pho
| tographer went along to show Washing
| ton that the boy is real, that he is a
| spiendid specimen of babyhood.
| When Mr. Pratt and the photographer
and the man who discovered the boy
went into the nursery the boy rushed
out from his playmates and grabbed two
of the visitors at. once. 1t was an eager
| grasp of the baby hand.
| He smiled as If it was the happiest
| moment of his life. He wanted to play
He wanted to play with something Dig
| and real and toyish. Yet in all mat Dig
| nursery there wasn't single thing Tor
| him TO pIay with, except this one build
| ing block.
There were little girls. too-nine of
| them Not one Of them had a real doll
Some of the older ones scented cxcite-
! ment when they saw the big box win
the fire engine In it One of them Wills
| pered excitedly: 'Toys!
| "Well. -boy-with- the concentrating
block was taken out on back porch
| The three men tore at the string in order
! to get the engine out quickly.
Then the whole red, blazing, galloping
| plcrv of the thing burst full upon the
| boy. He sat down on the moor OF tne
| porch. took the whole business in his
| arms and Toasted his brown eyes on it.
He had never in his life seen anything
| approaching ii in wonder.
Too Overjoyed to Smile.
MANY peopIe think children hop up and
down with elee and sho;t and sing when
they get a toy like that. Perhaps some
of them do. This boy did not.
His face showed nothing but astonish-
ment and wonder He felt the toy all
over He made the horses work. He
| touched the wheels and the real rubber
hose and the driver who sits on the seat
with the aid OF mechanical device to
keep him from being dashed under his
three-hitch teams feet.
| In fact. this boy was so mystIhed and
anna zed that heaven should open and give
| him a chunk of itself that he could noe
smile, thereby disappointing the photogra-
pher, whose rule Is that every one who
faces his camera has to smile.
One of the boys playmates is little
girl named Louise. The photographer
| took a picture of her.
She has no dolls. She says she wants
\ one. In fact, she has no toys at all, ex-
| cept a heap of comic supplements.
How to Locate Toyless Ones.
How do you reach her? Never mind.
She is going to get doll this afternoon.
But there are a score of ways OF reach
ing others 1t is not necessary to know
the location of every orphan asylum in
the CITY AS has been said some of them
are rich and have friends who keep them
| supplied.
But look i'm the telephone book and md
| the names of homes that are not so we'll
known Call up the Instructive Visiting
| Nurses Society and ask them If they
don't know family where toy would
be a godsend.
| Try that list of names that The Star
printed Thursday afternoon, along with