Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-22
TROUBLES FORGOTTEN IN XMAS CHEER

cost of living. the urgent necessity for tariff reform, trust investiga tions. labor troubles and even ths memorable landslide at the last election are temporarily dismissed from the minds of the people Un,s mas shopping, with it's thousand and one perplexities. worries, sur prises and disappointments fills the mind of the rich and poor to the cxclusio nof almost everything else. The cost of living may be high. but the people seem to have money enough left to buy Christmas pres ents and not for many years has the holiday trade been brisker than this year
 All the Christmas shopper needs is money; opportunity to spend ;t i, any way he may choose is of. cred most temptingly everywhere. Never were the displays of the shops more beautiful, tempting and distracting than this year and shop pers find it extremely difficult to resist the lure of the many de sirable and temptingiy beautifui things displayed in the shop win. dows and on the counters. IL is not an uncomnTn thing for a shop per to start with the intention to purchase certain things marked down on his or her shopp,ng list ana to come home with an empty purse without having purchased any of tie articles mentioned on the list, simpl because there were so many other things more allurtng to the taste If the buyer.
 Those who have been in the hab 1t of making the rounds of the shops about Christmas time year aft CT year, are delighted with this years display. To them, who har followed the manifold changes ir the character of holiday goods. cor responding with the gradual evolu d'n Of wealth and refinement in thi. country, this years magnificent dis play does not come as A sunrise They had watched the gradual evolu ton from cheap and crude toys t. r1arveis of mechanical perfection from equally cheap and gaudy tin sci to useful and ornamental art! ries of unGuestionable artfctfs mer fit
 | Less careful and systematic ob servers, however, who make tn, rounds cf the shops at this tima will be greatly surprised at tht wonderful changes in the charact CT of holiday goods compared witt the displays of five or ten years ago Santa Claus Is nothing if no1 up to date Modernism crops ana bplges out eyerywhere-it is ths most striking feature of this years holiday market. Nowhere is this tendency mare apparent than ir the toy displays.
 Tin soldiers. miniature circuses drums. horns and other noise-p pro ducing instruments of torture and the hundreds of other rather prim. itive toys which used to delight the hearts of the boys ten or more years ago, are no longer conspicll. Nus in the shop windows. They are still in the market and may be purchased. principally at the small. CT shops, but they have outIiyed their sttraetiveness and have been reIe. gated 10 the more obscure shelves ana corners. In the windows the latest and most I'D to date goods are displayed. The pace of honor h given to flying machine. airships, eIlders, and other toys rehectinc the wonderful modern aec1mpIish. rnents Of man in the conouerinp of the air. There are small models or every known make of aeroplanes. Bieriots. Wrights. Curtis and other American and foreign models, dir. iglbies Ia Zeppelin, down to com mon eounfy-fair balloons with nara chute jumpers attached. Many of The models are quite large and the nlgher prices ones capable of talk. ing flights of considerable Ianotb height. The most expensive models are monoplanes and biplanes de.
 b~"CA aOi luciE DTODelleTS rom twisted rubber bands, while the cheaper models have sta., springs and clockworks. These in. sructive toys, particularly the large ones are in every respect. excent. ins the motive power, exact produc- uons Of the machines used by the sviators. They can only be operat ca With safety in the open air. as they can reach an altitude of tfty to one hundred feet and can cover a distance Of 100 to 200 feet s75. 'O ''
 Ile smaller and cheaper models aiso fly. but only when suspended rom the ceiling, in which case they circle around through the air Ike real flying machine. In the same category helong the mechanical birds which can fly in a circle and the new styles of kites built in accord. ance with the latest theories of air. craft.