Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20

turned out in New England for the
coming Christmas season.
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In one respect there is no apparent
effort on the part of American manu-
facturers to
Christmas Tree supply the
Ornament Substitutes. and tinsel
Christmas tree ornaments These
all come from Germany and Aus
tria and are made under condi-
lions that make 1t impossible Tor
Americans to compete. Were these to
be turned out in American glass rae
tories their price would be prohibitlve.
Yankee ingenuity, however, has not
been stumped by this problem, but has
already evolved substitute. The arti-
fetal flower makers are now using up
the odds and ends of material left over
from flower making to produce an en-
tirely new kind of Christmas tree orna-
ment, which will be put on the market
to replace the brilliant glass balls so
familiar to all of us.
So far as dolls are concerned, the
effect of the war certainly will be only
to accelerate movement in favor of
the American product, which has been
steadily progressing for several years
The American doll industry has gen
American doll factory decided to get
out a character" doll did any doll
maker in the world discover that the
child would prefer a doll with face
approximating human imperfections
to a doll with perfectly pretty
face, but stupidity inane-
American dolls are not always pretty,
but their faces look like. real babies
and real boys and real girls and real
men and women. An Indian doll looks
like an Indian and a Chinese doll like
la Chinese. The European dolls. whether
of German or French origin, were mar
velously pretty. but under no circum-
stances could lay claim to character.
The American Character doll found a
hearty welcome from the children. and
they are. after all. the final judges IN
such matters. The scarcity OF Euroepan
dolls will increase their price. so that
this year Santa Claus probably Will
leave more American dolls in little
girls stockings than ever before.
X
! The American toy center of Win
chendon is convinced that its product
will be increased by
| American Tow at least rs per cent
this year, and 1t
Center GROWS. has every conf
dence that the reopening of European
traffic will not mean a return to the
old scale with it. 1t believes
that it can convince dealers and
the public of the superiority of Ameri-
| can goods. and that in the future
Nuremberg will be forgotten SO far
as American Christmases are con-
| cerned.
| OF the toys now manufactured in the
United States. Winchendon produces
approximately two-thirds of the toy
drums and more than half of the rock
ing horses. blackboards. desks, musical
chimes and dolls trunks It also turns
out a large percentage of the Ameri-
| can dolls furniture. pianos, as well as
making huge quantities of tool chests
and blocks.
| This town is frankly a toy town, and
| it has erected a huge rocking horse
| on the lawn of the railway station
as symbol of its industry. The sum-
mer and fall activities of this town
! have been increased by SO per cent
and it's people are working day and
night SO that Santa Claus will have
| his pack properly filled next December
| Outside of the manufacturing in
terest, which cannot hope to distribute
| it's increase all over the country before