The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-29
st. Nick Writes Hen Visit
Every Good Kiddie.
VIII Come This Year in 1000
Reindeer Airship.
NO GERMAN TOYS At STORES
Beautiful English Dolls Will
FIJI Girls With Joy.
Santa Claus to Meet Little Felix's
in Topeka Stores.

North Pole Nov. 90, 1919.
The State journal,
Topeka, Kansas
Dear Friends:
It's less than a month now until l
Shall pay my annual visit to Topeka.
Tell all the kids TO hang up their stock
ings; L am going to get around to all
of them this Christmas and I'll have
something for every one.
Last year ! tried to make the trip
in an airplane, but 1 couldn't find a
landing place on some roofs. This year
am using n ], ,0O0- reindeer power dirig-
ible equipped with a bombing device
that drops my packages into every
chimney. ] may miss a stocking oc-
casionally, but the presents will be
found somewhere near the chimney.
Only good boys and girls will get pres
ents, the same as usual The bad ones
will be left out
I've got dolls and trains and new toys
you've never seen before.
Give my love to all the kiddies and
tell them I'll be there one minute after
midnight Christmas morning:
Look, a letter from Santa. He's
coming Christmas morning before lit
tie children wake and he says he will
have presents for everybody. The
State Journal was just ready to send
a reporter to st. Nick's icy domain TO
lots of presents with him this year
when this letter came.
st Nicholas has made Topeka one
of his headquarters for toys. He preb-
ably will have to restock his big air.
ship here. The stores have bought
big stocks of Christmas toys for the
kiddies and there's not a ''made-in-
Germany" mark on a single one, ac-
cording to Tom ICannon. buyer for
Crosby Brothers stores. Most of them
are made here in America with some
from England and Japan.
This will be the biggest toy Christ
mas Topeka has ever seen," said J. B.
Walker. manager of Pelletiers store.
we have put in not only the largest
line we ever carried, but the most di-
versified. There is not a German toy
in stock. but some Jobbers are trying
to slip them off on us. We shipped
one such lot of blocks back the other
day. We are still harping on the
slogan, Do your Christmas shopping
early"
Friday was formal opening day in
Topeka toydom. Santa Claus was at
the stores, filling the kiddies with de-
light.
Kiddie Kar the King.
The king of the toy departments this
Christmas will be the "kfddie kar.''
These are the most popular among the
kids now. Also there are the usual
dolls, doll dishes, autos, coasters, me-
chanical trains, Meccano builders
wagons, games, a photograph that is
run by a string and plays paper rec
ords and repeater pop-gun that
operates like a regular pump shotgun
and doesn't have to be reloaded. In
addition there are the thousand and
one novelties like the Tinkerpins Yam
'kee Tanks, and Tilly Thinkers, popular
for one season and forgotten the next
There is a real electric stove, just
toy but one that will cook A
chemical experiment set for the boy
of Is and a telephone set are among
other novelties on display.
Mr.. Cannon showed the reporter
some beautiful dolls that little girl.
would go wild over. They are made
and widows Of men killed in the war
They are wonderful creatures made
out of real bisque and have remark
ably lifelikeS expressions. Their dresses
too are such as to put joy into the
heart of any little girl. American
dolls are cheaper and pretty. but not
so dainty as the French and English
articles.
Germany Won't Be Missed.
germany Will not De missed on tIlt
toy market this Christmas" said Mr.
Cannon. England and America are
taking the former empires place ant
Japan is turning out great quantitie!
of toys, but so far a high quality ha:
not been attained. Toys. like every
thing else. will be relatively higher
priced this year, but the advance ha:
not been out of proportion. The peac'
id a will be brought out by the goods
carried this year; the soldier toys are
losing favor. We are expecting a big
holiday sea SON"