Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

canical ones, and practically all OF the
dolls are imported from Germany. CHRIST
mas time will be especially hard on the
little ones. for, though one shipload OF
German toys managed to escape the vigil
lance of the English cruisers and get into
New York harbor. a single shtpload is
but small fraction of the amount that
is usually shipped to the United states.
seven million dollars worth of toys, and
this year, but for the war, she would
have sent many more.
It will be sad time for the children,
when, after many earnest letters to santa
Claus they wake at break of day Christ
mas morning, and, instead of the well
filled stockings. bullying with goodies ana
topped with a fat-cheeked German doll
or a marvellous and many-coiored me
chanicals toy, find them meagerly nlled
with poor substitutes OF last year tDss
that but emphasize their leanness. The
German not only supplies us with the
great bulk of toys, but he also supplies
that subtle understanding OF child ma
ture that enables him to make a toy
that will appeal directly to the child
mind The most ingenious Yankee has
never yet been able to remotely approach
the most ordinary worker of Nuremburg,
Germany. in the invention and construc,
ton of those toys that make child fall
in love with them at first sight. Even
the cleverness. and artistic ability of the
French have failed here. While the
French doll is a model of beauty, 1t is
the homeiike, domestic type Of German
doll that the little five-year-old miss
hugs to her breast and adopts at once.
Out of a million and half dolls i'm
ported last year Germany sent all but
$4,000 worth France sent but $1,000
worth.
There seems to be something inherited
about the wonderful ability Of the toy
makers of Nuremberg. For hundreds
of years they have been supplying the
dolls and toys of the world. and each
year their trade grows apace.
Another thing the little ones will miss
this winter, when the evenings grow
long, will be the decaicomanies, for Ger
many supplies US with all we get. and.
as far as can be learned. none has yet
been imported for the autumn trade.
Also the supply of paper dolls-those big
cardboard sheets for cut-outs-is entirely
lacking. In short, the war will deal the
children of America a severe blow the
coming winter. 1t is no consolation to
them to know that the German children
will be more than well supplied with
ing too much of mere human nature.
Another and older age When the
young Edwin goes to Atlantic City for
an outing, after promising to write to
his Angelina every single day. he writes
one fat letter filled with longing; then
another rather brief, for the joys of the
place are winding their influence about
him. On the third day he determines to
write her a souvenir postal card-not one
Of those cheap, two-for-a -nickel cards.
but a real, haut ton sort of card. that
you have to pay a quarter for. He ap-
proaches the salesman and orders a
handsome, imported souvenir card.
Sorry, SIR replies the salesman, but
we haven't any more of those
,lafa 1xr-in fO1rt nf
cards?''
..Out of those handsome cards, sir" is
the reply. You see, they are made in
Germany that is, 9S per cent of them