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the German toys is sold. Our glass
Christmas tree ornaments, almost a
half million dollars worth of them,
are mostly from Germany. The har-
monica, too, is without an American
competitor.
Germany is not our only foreign
source of supply. We are indebted to
Great Britain for certain types, such
as stuffed animal toys and ingenious
going vessels. The Japanese paper
and celluloid toys, with their delicate
make and exquisite coloring, and the
Japanese toy tea sets have great
charm. The toy musical Instruments
coming from France and CZechosloVa
kia are almost without domestic com
petition.
y 4 x
nOLL houses made in CzeChosloVa-
~ kia and Great Britain are partic-
ularly attractive. These range from
the modest cottages to elaborate vii
las. Some of these are so Cleverly
made and artistically finished that
even a grown-up wonders if there
aren't fairies, after all Many of them
have gardens, with their miniature
trees, flower beds and winding walks
providing an unusually attractive set
ting. Few of these are already fur
nished and those that are, unless
they are of the very expensive type.
give the impression of the houses as
they are furnished by groWn-ups when
they are for rent. When the eXpen-
siVe villa Is furnished, one has
rather sneaking feeling that the
mother was perhaps even more easy
to sell than the young daughter. Who
could resist house with wee Oriental
rugs. pictures that are copies of ia
NOUS originals, books smaller than
a postage stamp, baby grand pianos
the size of an inkwell, beds not so big
as ones hand, with a mattress and
springs and bed linen that even the
Queen of the Fairies would delight to
sleep in?
Some of this miniature furniture is
made by the American manufacturer.
Definite styles are followed, as is done
in the manufacture of real household
furniture. One toy designer makes
colonial furniture, and in suites for
every room in the house. Some of the
chests and cowboys, which are exqui-
| Sitely made, have come to be used as
| jewel cases.
| These doll houses, musical instru-
ments, expensive toys and stuffed ami,
mails constitute the principal groups
| for which the American child is in.
debted to the foreign manufactures.
And to what extent does the foreign
child enjoy American toys? Twenty
years ago the American toy was prac.
tically unknown outside the United
States. Today our foreign sales are
about equal to our foreign purchases.
American toys are sold in 95 foreign
markets. II one has money to spend
| and is looking for a quality toy
] whether he is in nearby Canada OF
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also becoming widely known in many
foreign markets. Large quantities
are sold yearly in Canada, Mexico and
Cuba. 1t will perhaps come as a sur
prise to learn that last year there
were rather large sales of playground
equipment made to British Guiana
and to New Zealand. Appreciable
amounts were also sold in France,
Germany and the United Kingdom.
All South American countries are
showing increasing interest in out
door amusements for children.
Even though the value of American
toys sold in foreign markets is almost
equal to the value of foreign-made
toys that are imported here, one must
not forget that this amount, in com
p4sison with the amount sold in the
domestic market, is very small, a
little less than per cent. The Ameri-
can market is the great toy market
of the world. consumption in this
country being equal to that of all the
rest of the world combined Many of
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our dolls. educational toys and wheel
goods.
American wheel goods, particularly
toy automobiles, are. doing their very
best to become as popular in foreign
markets as the originals after which
they are modelled. While, of course,
they will never be sold in such large
quantities. it must be quite agreeable
to the American manufacturer to
know that the best toy automobile to
be found in any foreign market is of
American make. When we consider
the price for which some of them are
sold we are rather prone to think
that in no place except the United
States are parents guilty of such ex-
travaGance. Yet in one shop in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, last Christmas. oI:t
of IL toy automobiles imported. which
were to retail at price equal to $3.50
In United States currency, 10 had
been disposed of by the LIST of De
cember.
American playground equipment is
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crement. In mechanical ingenuity,
originality of design, quality in pro-
duction and finish, the American toy
is without a peer.
1t is true that there are German
toys most arttstically conceived and
beautifully made Stuffed animal toys
are designed absolutely true to life,
with the aid of a naturalist who
knows his business. The finest obtain
able non-fading cloth and felts and
mohair plush are used. Almost every
species of animal is made, and in the
very large department stores an ex-
hibit of graduated sizes of all kinds
OF the same animal from ! to ? inches
in height to feet is not at all I'M
usual.
If you do your Christmas shopping
in the fiveand-ten this year, you'll
probably buy a German article, for
that is where d large proportion of
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BY ALICE HUTCHINs DRAKE.

A this season, when the
~ thoughts of the world are
a turning to one Mother and one
Il n Child In particular and to
motherhood in general. it is
t.snely to make a pilgrimage to GER
tain Paintings on exhibition in Wash
ington. These canvaSes renew within
one consciousness of the real sig
nifcance OF Christmas. In the midst
of the ri h and hurly-burly it is
POSSIBLE that ones thoughts of the
az. are sometimes confused with
those which concern gifts and tissue
paper, miStle,oe and delayed pack
ages. Then it is that it is we'll to
pause for a moment or two in the
presence of these paintings.
The Corcoran Gallery OF Art has on
permanent exhibition four or five can
vases which make this seasonal APP
peal. From the landing the visitor
can examine a co!orful Alteration of
Mangs, the distinguished Bohemian
painter. The background is a dark
landscape 4 faint light touches the
horizon line. Possibly il heralds
down. possibly IL is the aft erglow of
the dazzling light which, tradition re
lates. Illuminated he sky on the
night of Chriat's birth. In the shadow
hovers Joseph. Seated by the manager,
Mary offers the young Child for the
homage OF the rough shepherds. one
of whom prostrates himself before
Him. There is an irradiation of light.
from thu body of the Christ Child.
slightly reniniacent of"the glow which
Nlumines the onlookers in Correggios
Holy Night" The robe of the Virgin
is blue, the color of royalty. 1t is
hers by right of her descent from the
line of David. This painting provides
the Christmas pilgrim with an effec-
tive point. of departure.
One of the particularly beautiful
vistaS in the CorcOran Gallery car
ries the eye to the. notable work of
art by Carl MelcheTs. called Mater
nifty" Here is q present-day mother
and her baby touched only by that
divinity which surrounds all child
hood. In an outdoor setting the
mother rests with her baby in her
arms. Perhaps she dreams as have
other mothers:
Dear little child in the fold of my arm,
Thou AFT close to nay breast as l dream
And earnestly hope may guard thee from
And walk by thy side part of the way.
A fair little head so close to my heart.
-, wee little, hand caressing my cheek
Thy, being, and mine wholly one--yet apart,
Aav be thy strength if thou shouldst
The background is an interlacing of
Autumn leaves. These and the red
of the mothers chair, the blue of the
little watering can, the red of the
apples the yellow of the sunlight and
the lavender of the mothers waist
satisfy ones color sense.
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us who are able, and many OK US who
are not buy not only high priced toys
but lots of them for our children.
x x X
A T NO time and in no place in all
the world is there spoken more
often or with greater conviction. How
times have changed" than at the toy
counters during the Christmas shop
ping season. Even though a young
mother is making the purchases. you
will hear her say, MY dolls. when I
was a little girl. were never so cum
ming, so beautiful or so handsomely
dressed. How I would have been de-
lighted with that tea set or this little
kitchen stove" And so she goes
the whole toy department,
alive with admiration, which is a state
of mind of course, which makes her
also quite forget that her o:.: .oys
were lever, never quite so exprT=N ..
The clustering boys father 30 JuSs
Continued on Seventh PaceO
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IS Pilgrimage May Be Made by Washington Art Lovers

contrast The former presents a tale
of war and peace. 1t Is. so to speak. a
narrative background. That OF the
canvas by Rubens is a simple. out
door setting,
OF the five major classes Of Ma
donna paintings. there are to be
found, on this Christmas pilgrimage.
examples of nearly all. These IT,
Clude the portrait Madonna, the Ma.
donna enthroned. the Madonna in the
sky or in Gloria, the Pastoral Ma
donna, the Madonna in home environ
ment. Attributed to Van Dyck is a
painting of the Madonna and Child,
which hangs in a gallery near the
left of the entrance aisle.
x y
THE Flemish school Of the sixteenth
century is represented by THE
Virgin and Child" executed by Ber-
nard van Orley. Against a back
ground of dark trees sits the youthful
mother. In the fold Of her arm rests
her Child. in whose hands is a large
apple.
The eyes of the Madonna rest upon
the Infant The Christ-Child looks
out upon the world with peculiarly
appealing expression. The back
ground includes mountain view,
| castles and small moving figures deli
cately wrought.
A painting. the study OF which
brings to an effective conclusion a
Christmas pilgrimage such as has
been described. is called The Son Of
| Mary" This is one of the notable
| canvases by the American artist Ell
/ lott Daingerfeld II is the largest
of the paintings TO which reference
/ is here made. The Child stands out
! lined against background of tapes
| try, which emphasizes the beauty OF
| the unusual nimbus. The figure OF
| Mary, the mother. is slightly turned
| from the spectator. One hand sup
| ports her Son. The arms of the
! Christ Child are raised to suggest the
| outline of the cross. One small hand
carries upward the filmy blue drapery
which falls over Mary's head and
/ shoulders. The upper portion Of her
robe is white. beautiful innovation.
! The coloring Of the drapery and robe
is in subdued tones. In the extreme
| foreground are two massive cathedral
candlesticks. In them rest long white
candles recently lighted. One symbo-
Lies the fact that this Son of Mary
has a human nature: the other that
| He is the Son Of God. and hence.
divine.
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l were young, Maggie" The point
is there are just about Is times as
many American toys sold now as
there were back in those days. The
status of the German toy in the
United States, over the last 20 years,
is just like that of Holmes famous
"onehorse shay" so far neither bet
ter nor worse--while the status of the
American in the same period is pro-
excessively comparable to that of the
American automobile.
How account for this tremendous
growth. Our population has grown
in numbers, you say, 20 per cent.
But the American toy industry has
grown j 500 per cent. And what per
cent of this increase has the German
manufacturer enjoyed? None. The
benefits of this increased consumption
have accrued entirely to the American
industry. This is not an unearned in
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BY j. MIDDLETON.

- ASHIONS in ladies' dresses may
l. come from Paris. but the
United States sets the toy fash
< ions of the world. This pre-
erninence in the manufacture
of toys is something rev under the
sun. Yesterday-that is, 20 years
ago-more than half the toys sold in
the American market were imported,
mostly from Germany. Today. less
than 5 per cent of the toys sold are
of foreign origin. Twenty years ago
we had TOY production of SIS GOO, 900.
Today it is valued at SIS, 600 900
The credulous may say, without any
attempt TO hide his disbelief, oh, do
you mean 10 tell me that the Ger
man toy is rarity on the market"
Not at all! Not at all, In fact, it
appears with about the same fire.
Quency now as il did when you and
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two thousand years stretch between
the period of this traditional first
painting of the Virgin Mary and the
canvas called christmas Morn"
which hangs by the stairway in the
New National Museum. The artist
is the National Academician, VIII
Hicok Low. Mary, the Mother of the
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is in the north atrium of the Corcoran
Gallery At this season a view of the
group is especially timely.
i; K K
relates that st. Luke
painted the first portrait of the
Mother of the Christ-Child. Nearly
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-11-03

Some Of the largest industries in this
country are for it Understand Hen
~ Ford is strong for it, but haven't
heard whether this applies to his sales
force or not. This would be a fine
days at that. This would give about
ly get by on seven days and long
thing for farmers. They can hard
two-thirds of the population of the
United States another day in which
to spend what they make in five.
Nobody loves a pessimist. That
should not stop you from thinking.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1926
Grain Is Pouring
Into Mill Plant

Forty thousand bushels of grain
were shipped into Sleepy Eye on Mon
day and Tuesday by the Cargill Ele-
vator company of Minneapolis which
Kansas City Milling company on the
mill elevator and the fourteen large
tanks which they will use for storage
purposes only. The elevator and
storage tanks which have a total ca
pacity Of nearly one million bushels
will be filled during the next few
months.
The grain which arrived on Monday
and Tuesday was shipped from the
company's plant at Minneapolis
where it went through the process of
cooling and drying. Most of the grain
which will be shipped in for stor-
age, it is believed, will first GO
through the drying process. There
will be some, however, which will be
in condition to ship directly to the To-
cal plant.
Since Monday the grain has been
arriving at the rate of 10 carloads or
10000 bushels a day. Four local
men and Supt. Cote of the Cargill
company have been kept busy taking
care of the shipments. Supt. Cote
will return to Minneapolis as soon as
the plant is operating successfully
and another man will be sent out to
take charge.
Due to the fact that the machinery
in the elevator has been standing idle
for the past number of years, some
of the equipment has been causing
considerable trouble, but all these
troubles will eventually be overcome
says Mr.. Cote.-Sleepy Eye Dispatch
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General business is not brisk. Any
thing pertaining to cleasurn or l''v-
uries is going big. People are pleas
ure mad. Football and baseball at
tendance is breaking all records.
Movie shows and theatres are play
ing to packed houses. We are spend
ing next months wages this month,
buying on the installment plan,
skipping on necessities, over indulg-
ing in Injuries, living for today and
letting tomorrow take care of itself.
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UNCLE DUDLEY SAYS:
Advocating five work days per
week seems to be gaining momentum.
Evening star., 1926-11-26
DEFENDS CANDOR IN BOOKS.
MargOt Asquith Holds Public Wants
to Know "ReaI Men"

LONDON, November &c (P.-Mar.
got AsQuith, Countess of Oxford and
-Asquith, is taking a hand in the dis
cussion brought about by the pub
lication and later withdrawal of
"The Whispering Gallery" a sensa-
tional book which dealt with court
secrets and noted personages. The
countess herself is an author.
Among her works is The Autobiog-
raphy OF Margot Asquith." She con-
tends for candor in biogra ply. In
n letter to the Daily Mail, which re-
Gently quoted Lord Birkenhead as
saying that the countess could not
be entirely acquitted of some slight
blame for creating a vogue for such
books as THE Whispering Gallery"
she denounceS the "abominable prac-
tice of screening vulgar, scurrilOus
and illiterate books behind anony-
nifty"
"Pubiic Wants to Know the Truth"
She contends, however, that the
public wants to know more than
what who's Who" says about a
man; it wants to know what a real
man is like.
CAS- for myself" she continues. II
prefer the art of the brave and faith
ful painter to the ingenuity of the
beauty specialist. If you ignore the
faults Of public men. you nail them
more securely in their collins than
any undertaken"
To critics who would urge delay
in publishing personalia about the
dead lest they offend friends, the
countess says:
IF you study the susceptibilities
of the living YOU viii deal made
quately with the dead, and if you
wait long enough to satisfy the
critics there is a possibility that the
fame of your subject may have
passed into oblivion"
Evening star., 1926-11-26
LITERARY AGENT
PLEADS NOT Gull
Man Who Sold "Whispering
Gallery" to Publishers De-
nies Charge of Fraud.

LONDON. November 26 @-Hes.
keith Pearson pleaded not guilty when
nrraignod today on a charge of obtain.
ing money under false pretenses for
THE Whispering Gallery" the book
that caused such a furor on it's publ
cation last Friday that it was with.
drawn within "a hours
Pearson, tall, good looking man OF
80, styling himself a literary agent,
was arrested yesterday on the COM
plant of A. l.. Lane. member of the
John Lane Co.. publishers Counsel
for Lane declared today that the book
was pure fiction. where's the defend
ant had represented TO the publishers
that the manuscript, purporting to ex-
pose secrets concerning royalty and
other prominent personaEes, was taken
from thu diary of an eminent diplomat.
Pearson was released in $1,000 bail
for further hearing December a.
Evening star., 1926-11-26
SLAIN IN MINE TOWN RIOT
Negro Dead After Battle With
White Men

ENIONTOWN. Pa. November 26
N).-A negro was shot to death last
night at Whitsett, a mining town in
Northern Fayette County, during a
disturbance between whites and
negroes. Arthur Faulkner, 35, was
killed.
Fifty persons were brought to
Untontown for questioning after
State police and county officers had
quelled the trouble. Ten were held
pending further inquiry. two of them
on charges of murder. The disorder
was said to have had it's inception
in a fist fight between two men.
Harry Walker. negro, and Theo-
dore Dell were the two held on MUIR
der charges.
Radiotelegrap service has Just
been established between Belgium
and the CONGO.
Evening star., 1926-11-26
NORWEGlANS FAVOR CARD
SYSTEM TO GET LIQUOR
Prohibition Plebiscite Results
Analysed by Government-Mod-
crate Use Seems Preferred.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OSLO, Norway, November 90
The governmental committees report
on the prohibition plebiscite states
that the outcome of the plebiscite in
dicates a feeling among the people of
Norway in favor of not too great re-
strctions on moderate liquor consump-
ton
1t finds that the Swedish restrictive
system is not suitable for Norway. but
recommends a card system, whereby
cards for the purchase Of liquor will
be issued to all law-abiding citizens
ebove the age of 81.
1t is understood that the govern
ment's new liquor traffic bill will be
introduced in the Storting in January
Evening star., 1926-11-26

Warm. comfortable A1l-wool
Sweaters, in sizes S to 16 years.
Some in plain colors, others in
combination colors of tan and
blue, blue and green and blue
and rose.
Evening star., 1926-11-26

Becoming little models Of fine
feits and velvets, some simply
tailored, others attractive1y trim
med. All colors and all shapes
from which to choose.
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to aid veterans. request for a sol
diers' hospital in the South, and for
Federal aid toward erection of a
monument to Theodore Roosevelt in
Oregon.
The Veterans voted to meet at
Detroit next year and to gather at
Havana, Cuba. in 1928.
With Senator Means, the organiza-
ton elected c. Noel Markham, Ports.
mouth. Va. senior vice commander; e.
A. Anderson, Omaha. Junior vice COM
mander; Rev. Ezra &. Clemens, Owa-
,tonna, Mimi. chaplain, and DR.. H. A.
Arnold, Philadelphia, surgeon general.
The Womens Auxiliary was TO
finish today writing the slate of Off
GERS which was begun yesterday with
election of Mrs. Blanche Barker,
Lowell. Mass, as president general;
Mrs. Margaret Manion, Milwaukee,
senior vice president; Rella Hall. Des
Moines, chaplain general Elizabeth
Mcnamara, Cambridge, Mass. judge
advocate. and Margaret Saylor, Sc
attic. historian.
The nurses organization chose
Jennie X. Dix of Boston, president;
Eva Trenholm Green of Washington,
secretary. and Josephine Shepherd of
Milton, Mass, treasurer.
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Fair Association and Charles f. Hitch
ings, trustee.
The bill of complaint alleges that
WHY'S was induced to buy $4,000
stock in the company. organized
under the laws of Delaware in 1912
and owning 1860 acres of land two
miles from the center of the city of
Sarasota and other property. and that
Bryan bought $4,000. The present
capital stock of the company was set
at 100000.
The bill charges that officers and
ma jorty stockholders are operating
and handling the business and prop
erty of the company for their own
benefit and in fraud of plaintiffs, and
for the purpose of stripping and de-
priving the Sarasot Improvement
Co. and the plaintiffs as stockholders
therein of assets Of said company
amounting to approximately $500. 900"
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Girl Sues Western Union.

The Western Union Telegraph Co.
was sued today for $4,000 damages
by Louise Ernest. a minor, through
her next friend, for alleged personal
injuries. She was struck and knock
ed to the ground by a messenger boy
on a bicycle at Thomas Circle Novem-
Der last, and sustained serious in
jury. she says. Attorney GuStave
Miller appears for the plaintiff.
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STOCKHOLDERS ASK
FLORIDA RECEIVER
John N. WHY'S and F. C. Bryan
Charge Heads of Sarasota Com
pany With Fraud.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TAMPA. Fla, August 19.-John n
WHY'S, the automobile manufacturer
of Ohio, and Frederick c. Bryan OF
Wisconsin filed suit in Federal Court
here Yesterday, asking a receiver for
the Sarasota Improvement Co.. in
which they hold stock. and for an
order restraining the company from
disposing of any assets, said to ap-
proximate 100000.
Named as defendants in the suit
are A. B. Edwards. J. r. Fletcher
Ralph c. Caples. Mrs. Ellen $. Ca
pies, John F. Burke. The Sarasota I'm:
provement Co., East End Land Co.,
the Trust Co. of Sarasota. Charles
Ringing Co.. the Sarasota County
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MEANS PRES|DES
At U.S.W.V. SESSION
Colorado Senator and Other
Newly Elected Officers
Directing Group.


DIES MONIES. Iowa. August 10
A hero of Manila today took up the
eaVeI ut the national encampment of
his comrades of 9S United States
Senator Rice W. Means Of Colorado.
newly elected national commander and
hoarer of the DISTINGUISHED Service
medal for Il heroic exploit at Manila,
WAS in the chair as the United Spanish
War eNterans brought their Vbnven-
tiun to a close.
Final sessions of the soldiers of the
blue and their auxiliary associations
were called to order this morning with
the new corps of officers in charge and
with a prospect of decentralization be-
fore evening. The major problems of
the encampment were disposed of yes
terdav with the elevation of the Span
lSh War Nurses to be an auxiliary Of
the Veterans. and the adoption of
resolutions indOrSinG reasonable mill
tarv preparedness. proposals intended