Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-26
Modern Toys and the Old

THE YOUNGER generation will never fully know lust how
: fortunate 1t Is to live IN this age-to possess the things that
modern invention and ingenuity has given. Most Of the parents
OF those who today are enjoying their mechanical toys and their
talking dolls can remember when all these things came about
and 1t was all after they had grown beyond the toy age.
The average man of today manufactured most of the things
with which he played as a child. He made bows and arrows,
shng-shOts, seds, wooden-wheeled wagons, kites, and MANY other
things. There were tops, Of course, and children of weL-to-do
parents might have a real steam engine and a red cart. So, too,
the girls had their rag dolls, or, if they were really fortunate,
got a wax doll with real hair.
There are mechanical toys of all kinds, sets from which all sorts
of things may be manufactured. There are knocked-down auto
mobiles to be reassembled. There are chemical sets, tiny wireless
outfits, trains that run by battery, or by Juice from a light
socket. There are moving picture machines, and all the ma
chinery of the world in miniature. For the girls there are the
dolls, as OF you're, but they are more life like, and they have com
piete wardrobe and bedroom sets. Then there are electric stoves
and all the equipment for the kitchen in miniature. 1t is a ioy,
even to the older generation, just to go through a wel-stocked
toy department.
We seriously doubt, though, if the children of today are hap
pier for all these things. Childhood knows happiness, whether
its anllsenents are simple or elaborate, and those who have
passed on into manhood and womanhood, in looking back through
the years, know that their childhood days were wonderful days,
even with only the simple toys. And they get something Of the
old thrill now. as they buy for their children the things that they
themselves were denied.
While listening to hunters tales remember this: Very few
Wild cats weigh over 80 pounds.
Most people find it hard to get out of bed even though they
have been doing it all their lives.
If money talked, a dime made in 1900 could tell some yarns
ABOUT what 1T bought in its youth.
The most fascinating thing about popular songs is trying to
guess Where the music was stolen.
Alter a girl contracts to go through life with a man she
naturally hates to take most of the trip alone.
University of Chicago girls vote all men are dull. Just the
same, no home is complete without one.
Mackerel are so thick a Novia Scotia ship found sailing diff
cult, so boarders are out of luck again.
Even the women who clamored for the ballot still find a bar
gain ad more interesting than a printed campaign speech.-Des
MONIES Register.
Seek Law to Curb Crime-Headhne. But they've got laws
Tor everything and crime goes merrily on it's way.-Louisvile
Courier Journal.
A lady friend of Count Salm Won Hoogstraeton is quoted in
these epgrammatic terms: America is no place for a gentleman
to make a living" Again the old matter of word definition arises
rs a decided factor. What is a gentleman ?"-Washington Star.
Within two years travel by air will be safer than by ship OF
rail" is the prediction offered by a. prominent army man.
walking on ali" win be as hazardous as ever, no matter what
happens,-Boston Globe,