The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1917-12-27

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claiaIed haas tine stores would have
additional Christmas attraction:
for the Riddles and as it was such
a lovely warm sunny day we
started off by nine and l took the
children first to Robinsons, where
besides the usual SANITY, they had
world famous clown, the really
first old fashioned one | have seen
lin a long tim, with great feet
t1irtv-siX inches lGfg: old fash
/ nIeG n i.lo ::ut..> uAU can tel
| you i.u.i;..4yds of i,iJi.es were
| .ick.ed and followed him around
| lie gave nut balloons and cut up
lall kinds of capers, just as he
would have in regular circus.
| The stores were spleDdidly deco
rated; not only with wreaths and
lsprays, real ground pines and
other spicy things, but some had
the ceremony OF lighting the bay
Derry candles, which are at least
-FOUR feet hl-h III huge candle
sticks, ali over the house. Santa
lighted them for luck, and they
we're SO pretty and he had such a
pretty ceremony. At IFS. simple
and inexpensive decorations are
ADVOCATED so we decided that the
gicks must be changed later to
small electric lights, the same con-
ical shape, as the c..EdleS burn a |
day and would burn too quickly.
At one store the chandeliers are
covered with long gliStenlng cas-
cades of glass like old fashioned
chandeliers, tut longer aid irrar,G
lar. Some have b.; frosted SNOW :
oails, some bic bells anu every
place Is so attractive with miles OF |
red ribbons, bows and wreaths.
All over town ch5ap toy Stands
aave sprung up and there are
nucksters with pIaythlngs OF every
Kind.
l have never beer ii such Il big
city just prior to christmas, before
AID 1t Is very interesting To me
With all the signs, lights, gift sug-
gestions etc. and you would enjoy
inc wonderful! California boxes OF
fruits, fresh and dried, nuts
vines &c.
| wait to tell you about MI
yisit to the Grand Avenue ochocll
n Friday, where the school
;biidren were making toys to lie
!iven Red Gross for sale and you
ould not possibly imagine the
magnitude of their work. This
will he the largest toy market in
he world all made by children
rom the Fourth Grade up, and |
ould not believe that they were
ot imported toys from Germany
r Japan except they were more
ubstaBtlal. The Superintendent
Did me, they intend making al
Ivy industry OF it starting with
lese children but turning it into
real paying business. Wood aud
1snlels We're used and the tow
ere mechanical, the beads made
he designs tins year and tie
llldren turned them nut like rapu-
+ 4-aIers. one set cutting the
ood TITO forms, tine next smooth
g. some painting, all the body
n lnstan:e; next group the spots
The giraffe; next fastening it on
's"; next Hutting on wheels and
on down the line. There were
| the animals of the zoo, about a
ot in size. of wood, in colors, on
heels, many of which move heads N
necks; all sorts of rockers, W
aides, two wheeled and other al
agops; stick horses, geese and n
'ose-girl fastened on collapsible III
rips which opened and shut ii
life fashion, like the lice. Ken al
tn got from Hawaii last year. SD
lere were block-shaped toys, at
at moved heads as they ran, like We
and had concealed re
reels and submarines which oh
'uld go down and rise TO surface, M
d hundreds of other things, all
IDLE holder, sewing companions
!. that looked like Vogue-gifts. ms
There are hundreds of schools ma
! each school turning in literally =,
'usands of toys, SO you can be- ~
le me when Il tell you that | ou
iced that the schools of Los VIII
geles are the center of the big Far
t toy market in the world. .,
Wvnonah. GRO