Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-20

and a knife and asked him her a horse such
the little boy had To his own surprise
the young man he made horses very WELL so
experimental further and made few pigs Figs
were equally successful Suddenly it occurred to him
that might make money carving small wooden
animals other children besides his sister, ana ne
made few inquiries concerning the demand for them
Today this boy is making as good living carving
little wooden he formerly did at the organ
This idea also served inspiration to young
who made member of a committee
appointed by mayor Of New York to take care of
the long bread lines OF unemployed in New York
couple years ago. This young woman was Miss C.
s. Foster Her great problem take of the.
large number of gray-haired, rheumatic old who
and shook in breadline For long time
her ingenuity taxed to find something for them to
do Then she thought OF old man who had carved
fascinating toys for her when she was child She
decided make these impoverished old men toy
makers.
Having decided Miss Foster did not quite know
going carry out her plan. 1t was not as if
she had a ready-msde toy factory waiting for her
proteges she had not the slightest idea where they
were going to learn their trade Finally the bishop
suggested might borrow the diocesan house
Lafayette street in New York. Here the young lady
brought forty from the breadlines, them
rough lumber, TOOLS paints and brushes and jigsaws
and explained they to make toys. At
first the fingers tribe clumsy and the jigsaws
extremely shaky, but gradually they acquired skill
today establishment is entirely selfsupport
ing. Each toymaker is earning $11o day, and over
twenty recruits have been added, while the con-
wooden dogs and cats is bought by the
New York stores and few firms in the middle west
Until recently not great deal of attention paid
artistic side of toys, and much left to the
child's imagination. Dolls which supposed to
represent babies real children bore
bance humanity at all, and boats far from
resembling real craft Not Realism has also
invaded the of toymaking, and each toy is
replica OF article it is supposed to in the
world of grownups. Thus the German character doll
beautiful, but it is exactly like live baby-a
rather baby with it's mouth open
yell and it's wrinkled frown. OF course a few
of them have pleasant expressions and a marvellous
of long, black eyelashes, but these not
sidered artistic.
The wonderful character doll in Germany is
made by Katie Kruse young German woman, who
modelled after the likeness of her child. The
doll stuffed with cotton and covered by a
material, while it's is made of plaster
fectly sculptured all the
curves and muscles Of young baby represented
the wrinkles in his On right foot the
doll bears the imprint Made in Germany the
the signature of Madame Kruse who
signs her to each doll turned by estab-
lishment
year toy department of every Is filled
overlooking toys of every description delight
child, the stock smaller il has
upon the American factories which orders
able any toys until the spring Of
year Hence, parent who waits until the day before
Christmas to buy toys is likely to ind them all