Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-10-29
SANTA CLAUS PLANT
At WORK ALREADY
pbiladelphia's Big Toy Factory
Has Begun To- Turn Out
Soldiers And Dolls
pITsH SEASON IS NOW ON

Van always can tell about the
christmas spirit
!, may seem to go down for the last
limo along about July 4, but some
taw II manages to struggle through
,od even In this more seasonable
nouth il doesn't show much more con
,.,ton than the League of Nations,
m, II keeps coming.
That the great thing about the old
ynletide emotion; it's in there fighting
III The time And, oh, what a walloI
i, develops by the middle of Deem
Der
Thev have this Christmas PROPOSE
lion figured out pretty coldly at Phila
d.lDhia's and the worlds greatest toy
panufacturing plant. They have sc
much confidence in this Santa Claus
wbo is decidedly an outside shot al
nresenf. that they are playing him
etroug TO breeze through in straight
heats about two months from date.
Works Toward Its Day.
The large, quiet top plant in North
Philadelphia has the look of a place
fulGling its destiny, working for ar
end that is inevitable, but is not yet
In the midst Of city Of factories
mat make cans and furniture and
machines. this one plant works OF
through the year a triffe obscurely
even faithfully. and always surely, for
lis rewards are great.
As surely as the Krupps milled or
through the years toward the appoint
ed hour 50 every year does this tor
factory work on toward it's day. And
for brief month it's bright products
dominate the world of the young
which is the ruling world OF that holi
day month
September Brings Rush.
when the months begin to end In
"er, life in a toy factory speeds up
Elephants must be turned out in
herds. soldiers in legions and dolls
in Ziegfeld chorus proportions.
Consider the work of the top ship
ping board. AS in a great nationa
crisis that about describes Christmas
too-alI hands are busy turning out
ships and submarines. Ships that sink
just like real ships, and submarines
that occasionally disprove the old
rule about whatever goes down is sure
to come up. With an equipment OF
This sort the young naval strategist
an get himself cited daily in house
hd orders for some bit of daring in
he nearby bathtub.
One look at the young things who
have just come out" at the top fac
tory gives a fresh meaning to the ole
words Baby Doll" A thing of such
permanent beauty as one of these
wooden headed, complexion-guaranteeG
not-to-chip-off. ndestructibly-j ointe6
dolls is more or less certain to be a
JOY forever.
Huge Armies For Young.
For the little boys who will never
grow up to be draftdodgers there are
thousands of soldier and sailor suits.
rs we'll as the distinctive uniforms Of
the great home armies of firemen
policemen and conductors With one
Of these cardboard fronted suits. with
its cap and club or gun or ak, the fu
ture bank clerks and business men
Of the nation can glut their young
enthusiasm for the more romantic if
less permanently profitable callings of
The world
How many successful men we al
know who started life-at the tender
age of 4-as a fireman or a soldier
in the ranks. And as they sit in a
swivel chairs and buzz for stenograph
ers and secretaries, do they ever dream
Of the old wild days in the free. open
spaces Of the side porch or the back
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