The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-16
INGENIOUS Ne ".
TOYS LURE
CHILDREN
Radio Appliances invade This
Field Along With Nina
ture Movies.
By HELEN FOX,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

NEW YORK, April let's great
I9n to be a child living in the year
1874, judging from all the wonder
toys on display here.
Each year fresh ingenuity is
brought to bear upon the invention
OF devices for the amusement IF the
httle tots. There are radio toys,
metal building materials, walking
animals, coupe automobiles, srring
Wardrobes for dolls, a miniature
movie reel, automatic train stops
AL kinds of jolly new things for
children, and ranging in price from
cents to 500. There are even
toys that would intrigue the big
boy" that is always latent in daddy.
Lots of fun, is the radio racer.
This consists Of a coaster, goal
and pair of racers. In one set the
coaster is a hill, the goal is NINA.
ture capitol, and the racers are the
u. Q. p. elephant and the Demo
cratic donkey. These are poised up
right at the top of the hill. Then
the owner of the toy assumes con-
troll OF the race and gives the usual
directions, ready, get set-go" Tie
10 careful, however, to pronounce
ready, get set" softly, and to shout
only the word go" At the mon.
0syllabic command, the political
animals which are controlled by
sound waves, snap down on all tours
and speed away for the capitol, in
the wild dash for the open door.
The wireless bank is worked on
the same principle of sound opera.
ton, and opens or closes at spoken
command. The same principle also
fvN a. npA<vA Al
station, which starts and stops
trains as they circle the tracks.
A construction toy for the boy
builder, that is of unusual educa-
tional value, is quite remarkable in
itself. Against scenic back
ground, reproducing the famous
New York sky line. The sky
scrapers, some OF. which stand five
and six feet high, are entirely con-
Structed of small, enameled metal
slabs. Some of these are walls,
others are windows, still others are
cornices. Hundreds of such pieces
are sometimes used in a single
structure. Some of the reproduc.
tons are amazingly accurate.
The CONSTRUCTION toy sells any
where from 81 to 500, depending
upon the number Of pieces. The
smallest set builds a cottage. With
the largest most complex sky
Gcraper can be erected.
Also of excellent educational value
iS the Bookie Reel, a device that is
a strange combination of black
board, magic lantern, and movie
reel. The Bookie Reel is a box
like metal object with a glass
SCREEN" behind which a reel is
revolved, by turning of a crank and
thrown into relief by a lighted cleo
trio, bulb on the inside. On the
various, changeable reels are pic
lures, stories, nursery rhymes, addi-
tons, words to be spelled, and all
sorts of other things that little
girls and boys learn at school.
Even drawing can be learned from
the Bookie Reel.
For the little tots there are most
enhancing walking animals to sup.
plant the old wool lamb, or the
stuffed dog on wheels. Others in.
clude the Krazy Kat with his funny
eyes; the long-trunked G. o. P.
elephant, in addition to the regular
run of the toy dogs, monkeys and
horses. All of these creatures can
be made to walk without winding
Iup springs, or being mounted on
wheels. The little tot need only
pull it along on a string, and the
legs move rhythmically along The
ground.