HBfW UNCLE SAM FIMNISH SANTA CLAUS WITH DESIGNS FOE H ISTMAS TOY:

want. There it lies, looklnr for aM t> * Come From the world as though it wore baby sister They waked up. It has the double chin ot a fat, happy little ba.b>. It ha* short hair United States Patent and no teeth. At last the "baby doll." for which all -the children cry. h;w come s Office.World's Prog¬ into its own. It is actual's' a "bab^ do'l. and no mistake. You lind Ihpm tin- ress Mirrored in the year so vonujt and helpless looking that to see them means to want to adopt th« ni Some have their first baby tooth. «nou>- Lake of Toyland. to ruak. an\ proud >oun« mother ru? out to te'.I all the neighbor*. And soir Santa s Pack This Year if you lay them down, give a most ur- mistaJcable cry; an unhappy. mis-rat * Will Contain little call for love ami protection. Or, .* Many yon want, it will say Mamma" or » and "Papa." or it will walk. The doll of t-> Wonderful Ingen¬ day. in fact, will do almost anything - sired of it. ious Toys and Dolls. Two of the newest inventions >n t connection shov plainly the trend in ' Those of a By-Gone progress. One is a patent on dolls e> . so made and attached tlmt they will j Infor¬ tate, thus making it ; osslhle for a ch Day.Advance ."to produce a (treat variety of <\pr< sions of countenance." No longer is ('." mation Straight From doll w ho will open and shut her eye? mf ticient. She must be able to look about Santa Claus Land- with the same ability at does her sh.,p- eyed young mistress The"other patent is a '"multifaced d- 1 This doll is so mad . that a series s XC'E upon a lime, of fa arc superposed, each movable. In th.* a«o. up ai long way a happy, sad. smilh'R. frowi nj <..- the north pole tearful face cau be exposed a' the <;- sat two old white- sire of tnc child. Xo longer when doll> haired gentlemen. Is spanked must she still retain her -t'-a I fast of childlike inm>i>'iH> One was short ami expression Her little mitress has but to whisk t ; fat, the other tall the tearful face. and. presto! dolly we*; and thin- Cfeie as only a dolly can. .was dressed In And the doll trunks, oh. what a deli*: t with they are! Xo little mother could wa red. edged morv than to have these little dolls white fur. the ing exp^ctantlx in Uieir little trunks j.:-t other in red. white begging to be taken borne and lovej and blue. One This year they range from the son.. 11 trunks which st was Santa <'laus. the other Uncle Sam. became popular vc. years hko to tin pretentious afl;Urs whi* They were having an important confer¬ are the result of this success. In the? ence. larger trunks the doll is usually twelve v "It's this way," Santa was saying. eighteen Inches high, while her home it- . self as Time was when 1 could not only make is big as a steamer trunk. A'id 110 baby's basket could be more da hit! all my own toys, but design them, U>o. padded and beribboned. Kach garment I Today I have all I ran do just to make kept in place by ribbons, and the littl« enough to go "round. And as for de- dresses and "things" on the tray make the children are getting so one want to run away with the w he e j-igns, why and explore it to tiie bottom. they want new tilings all the time! It's very gotten so now that I must have. help. That's I asked you to come up here." why And. of w When I'nele Sam heard this he began speaking el..tins. iiat a ward¬ robe dolly t an have, w 1th coat" to think of some way in which he could sport the newest bat-, latest gowns and all tlv help poor old Santa. other accessories that make s .'You can* always "et plenty of work milady wardrobe a delight! it matters not t! at men 10 make your toys, said I ncte Sam dolly really has no ;iose with which to after a lorn*, tone time; "suppose I help s nel! the great i|aantiti< s of toilet v a- nil by finding the designs?? * ters for her "That's just what i would like best."' dressing table. It matters not that shi- does no real work, there are ~aiu Santa, "if you can do it." SiciPPiNcHcof any number of manicure sets to choose * OF 1870 that * * > from, her tiny nails mav not ' jl course, -Santa kept bis littie. oid uieii. soiled. And shoes and gloves. long. short, "That s easy enough." laughed Uncle he there must still be because thought colored and It s<> Sam. "Here's the i lea. Down at Wash- children who would want the old kiiif toys. very long tell everything that the year has brought forth for Suffice it to ov.r the world send me pictures .¦ dolly. people * '-ir i, \ and directions for making things they Thl^ToDX^RN^05ITfOf0ftS£ COVXRXO"WlTH ^ igsill say that what you have dolly also has But so letters hav* MnyuMv.v.-- Tf have designed. Now, every time I Sad thi* year mau> v.viA the dressmaker or the milliner or the ' IWllNTYDOLLARS * *". - ' him for the modern toys x * J .- other who to that ope «>f these is new 1 put my seal of .ome to asking RXALilORSX:HlDX<^X3.Isrojt \ / people ko make things for J *J X . md so few asking for the oid-time fa .i,.W you have thought ot it. so have the approval upon it. That means that for makers of things for dolls. and nobody else can make 1 rorites.the kind that the children used years years Santa tiiat Mil.ill toy so dear to the heart oi" both kiddies and grown-ups what modern And we mustn't forget the banks. Who anything just like it. o love even a few years ago.that the child. And today what child has invention has done for toyland. Take the has not seen the bank in which father " tr> v Now. what I am going to do for you 1lad to put nearly all his men making not stooU-open-eyed and rilled with awe hobby horse. Today the tots r'de aw used to save his first pennies? And wha' is to to design toys. i he mechanical toys. in front of some huge shop window to Happylaml upon steeds whose coj. ys a funny thing it was. to be sure? It's a'- firt people Every ' time I find a brand-new design I will put He sometimes wonders where in the wherein was displayed an exact repro¬ are of real horse hair, and whose con¬ discolored now and rusty, but you ran of an would as to that it was ever mv oatent s.-al on it and sead it right up ,vorld all the ideas for new toys come duction aeroplane which fly! struction is such give practically imagine very pretty. to i. Thui you can furnish these kids think so At the patent office they will tell you the same motion as a real horse in action. And yet. do you know, banks, like every¬ yo t rom, and how can people up else, have the v.itl, new t" without working yourself , new things. Once upon a time a that the trend of patents in toys follows Yet look at the tlrst hobby horse! Pat¬ SKinMMls thing followed general ?any more aaEgSS.: 'v*#$BS trend of to death. You mustn't get sick, you s volume held all the designs he very cl<»s* ly upon modern Invention Itself. ented in 1850, it was nothing pre¬ progress? ingle in¬ are I.dow. brcntis* nobody could ever quite , ie«ded. Today he has a whole room And in this connection there is an tentious than a child s rockins: c hair with In the patent office there patent* take filled with teresting point. Time was when every¬ a horse s head attached. Since then near¬ for neariv two hundred "money boxes jour place."' _ c levoted to nothing but books And so it was drt iJ^d that I nele Sam ^lesigns. And every year Uncle Sam thing of a nature intended to be a play¬ ly '.Vo different designs for hobby horses as Vncle Sam calls them, an.1 some of wouki send Sai'ta C'laus designs for his sends him more and more. Pretty soon, thing was classified under general divi¬ have been patented. them are of such funny design. tovs ekli yar. so that h« could make thinks Santa Claus. he will have to sion of "toys and games." But as the And right in line with the hobby horse &A.>nc "WiTKKiAL Grass AndIiowers There's the bank where the cat catch"* eaouKh Cmistroas presents to go "round, t uild a special house just for them. inventions came in faster, more subdi¬ has come one of the greatest strides in the mouse as the coin goes in: or the without bein^: worked to death. * visions had to be made. the making of toys. Time was when all soat that butts the money in w hen yo i Thi> all happened, you know, a great * * And so if you go to the big office today animals were merely wood, gaudily paint¬ press a spring. Then there's the bas<* many years ago. to find a patent on a miniature aero¬ ed. Today they cau be seen so real, as ball bank. The the money one who does not believe t'lis a pitcher pitches Any plane you will not find it in the division far as looks are concerned, that at be made, all the way from a classified under the "wheel toys" When empty the weight pulls it up again. s is Santa and Instead is ranging heading and it noes right Into the catcher net * ? s tory of how Uncle Sam helping handling toys games. you short distance they seem alive. There mere adder up to a seven or eight art toys built upon wheels which when With the mechanical toys wh.ch rank and on into the bank. And foot ball, too must ko to the same division as that and great and down chi.d some of little folks Today, in a room full of book=, sits C'laus tind new toys for the children has the Jion that crouches spring*, atory frame for a building, ^up pulled along by the perform high .in the regard the And the W illiam Tell bank, in w hici. I . wherein all the patents of the Wright of the stiff "lion" which Johnny wh!c'» the elevators. action. The may be a butterfly comes, of course, the C'Jaus. His hair seems even c to go to the patent office in Wash¬ grandson dynamo propels tiny object aeroplane. Lucky apple is shot off William's head and lh- fcanta nly brothers are to be found. Hobnobbing used to carry beneath his chubby arm, But If such a set as this, costing over which when moved flaps its wines, or it the child who has seen the leal machine, a will find an entire money into the box Another, o'd l>ou whiter than usua . while there is stoop i]ington. There he familiarly with all the Invention for coat was of cloth, his mane, the reach of the moderate may be a boat crew, with man soar above and whose S-*0. is beyond college eight driven, the housetops. so hard for And tb to his shoulders and a worrieu expression d^vision given over to taking care of these great birds of the air are to be most likely, of rope. buyer of Rifts there are small sets, oarsmen all of whom row vigorously But lucky also the boy who owns one of Tray, begs pennies. found the birdlets, the inventions as horrid old dog that chases the cat up the on his usually jovial face t tie new toys and games that are con- little But this other lion stands as nigh minus the motor, which are nevertheless when the toy is pu led. Such toys as the modern toys built along the same which have been made solely" for the if his coat is not as as and are suf¬ these come the hundreds from the tree as your money Is going down And him is a volume which t invented. Johnny himself, and complete far they go, by lines. No longer does the toy balloon In front of huge mually being of amusing children. least as natural as such as little devices sold on the street the old woman in the shoe beats all all. purpose of real skin it is at ficient to build numerous toys, simple by hold the attention of modern America. wj*u he is slowly going over. It is his list And even that is not Nowadays It is the same wiui eneines, wagons, t'*e art of today can make it. And by ladders, bridges and even a small wagon. fakirs for 10 cents apiece up to the ones If it is to be desired, it must be built her children for you every time you drop of names; children's names. All the good everybody knows that Santa wants new masic lahterns. the more modern motion winding up the mechanical device Inside The heart of the child of today still which cost several dollars and constitute along the lines of the most efficient aero¬ in your coin. children, all the bad children. Santa iou bless my heart, it's a Noah s ark. to run from one of that. With the more expensive There is the circus. As a beginning a more this are for of ,engines began part motor, to be sure, and pretentious than several small point the boys the house¬ are little.and big. too.you may be able The little brown man his burden Perhaps few children today will recog¬ there comes a a few figures, of so hold. It would seem that the havo places y.he world to another, the lake had its when of wood these blocks chi d needs a ring and pieces wood, arranged that when girls to have a little home just like nize their friend the inerry-go-round instead of being the hand was moved in a certain been overlooked. But such is far froiri really truly ou Santa't desk, raises the top and takes j¦eflection. crude, but still a miniature name steel. But to all in¬ to which can be added as the holidays way one vou use for a bank! disguised under the "roundabout." arc of structural the of wood were caused to move the case. Just take a to tin the out several tiny, red. wooden objecta- a issued are the build¬ other until a pieces being trip on. are , mglne. Then, as the engine became And yet, in 1X37. the patent office tents and purposes t'"ey come around again figures, and make the store for a at Hut one has to hurry There now "In¬ noise. look the doll counter. And t Some arc- tlat. unnatural-looking animals, , in the world of inven¬ its first patent for just such an amuse¬ ing blocks of days passed. circus has been acquired. For still the games to be seen. W nat a ra wonderful thing has complete * what a counter it is! If dear old grand¬ ^ while two are supposed to be Mr. and , so it became a won- ment device as this. Nearly eighty years struct while you amuse your child" them there arc. Big games, lilt' tion and science, the and all these toys there seems to be a perpetual * * ma could but see what you are staring at of Mrs. Noah. But how funny they look, ( In running upon old, this roundabout looks little like the come to be the cry of day, new games and some i< w <>t tlv lerful thing toyland, to the rescue. love, for each succeeding Christmas finds A new this year shows an inclined so hungrily, she would raise her hands games, all painted red. \ tracks, through tunnels, stopping modern merry-p"-rounds, with their roar¬ science and art has flocked toy old ones.in new forms. There in the e . going the folk clamoring for in wonderment. Indeed, yes! She loved Oh. dear me," says Santa, "this will Just lions, rearing horses and fleet deer. These steel construction sets are com¬ certain of little railway up and down, which runs a sand not the sait»e j u stations and crossing bridges. ing more dolls for their more players dolls as well as you. But wer« nei is tiddley-winks. But never do at all. That kind of an ark the lake And vet. how the children of of small girders, such as are seer, circus, a they is the trains in the city around happy posed or more and scenes car. When it is at the top it releases flaxen-haired beauties with ciiina- game that grandmoUv r used to love to sit went out of fashion years and in of a aso must have in the great buildings erected in any for their theater track great years ago. lid. so did the tiny trains mirrored three-quarters century for their train. stop and sand pours into the car from a i>lue eyes, dimples, and all the delicate on the door and piay. No, indeed. V'hy. you cou.dn't And a child been! there are more than 500 city. Rivets, screws, wheels, pulleys . single \the water. Today to the Another field is the less in¬ funnel. When full it becomes heavier loveliness which has for years been the klead of the commonplace little woo.i. who wou d ulay with it." of the world has been in the class of "roundabouts." and all the other devices known interesting i- " Al! the progress patents Those, for in¬ than a attached at the back and exclusive of which the chips used to I'm sorry begins the old With A visit to any of the toy at this art of construction are included in these tricate mechanical toys. weight property dolldoin. receptacle into ~ little, \nirrored In the lake of toyland. shops are so races down hill to its load. But- now man. the will serve to show sets More than a hundred toys can stance, which at the patent office dump now, just look at what >ou flipped we find another. i the coming of the automobile there came reason of year broadly sit «ti "I Know, I know," says Santa, kindly. Tfto cats, yawning " :il .lusi throw it away and start another. their mouths open inviting >nu to them up. and it's here that those same No use to keep it, even. Here, Peter, rememher 1 ting me design book No. 80.'' old clr.ps «u. And then do you When Peter, his messenger, places the how lather has told you be used *. - shoot ¦ 1 «>ok before Santa, that wise old man up his pasteboard soldiers and tin wood, cannon A. i >rrs right away to a page near the end. even down with a little d ALL over the world Uncle Sam's sail- King Neptune, when lie comes on stuffed with oysters, fruit, mine-:- pi«'. cel¬ now ot "Now. here's an ark," he says to the beard on the line" douse here they are again But jou si ormen wil' celebrate Christmas day "crossing to ery anil such thing*, but '4 o'clock, at the Scouts. l.ttb man. "It was patented this year. every hayseed and landlubber, has a for¬ very outside, linds the.' Not much uncertainty there, eh? senorit. in a comic ga: b. a typical m.nimum. schedule time, but more men than usual EspeciallyFrance great preparation is made before Christmas the devout personate oran es, pineapples, bananas, lettuce, * are allowed to dreamed about. And as you fly around got to be modern. And It's the same abcut e streets Yaqui Ind.an chief, an anclen. .vsuc wines "sleep In," and, after the for Christmas, which begins the 4tn of the holy family by go'.ng t a cartoon of peanuts, grapes, and flavored with * * tin est m.nimum of almost over th them all." for a monarch, some Mexican rare The of drink¬ tidying up, prepara¬ Oe^emoer with planting St. Harbara's to the next aisle you trip from house to house, asking night's in of vintage. gamut tions for the festivities are *fter the little brown man has studied politician unpopular that domicile, is run fiom the pu que of the poor The few "shipkeepers" cannot under day's gotten grain. Women fill plates with wheat, something. It's a pair of stilts. And if - ables > for the new ark lodging. are humorous.y painted on the "p under way. Plans very carefully The nlnos, or children, are enthusiastic be through the various Mexicap wines to such circums ances make a very success¬ which are well watered and then put father were along he might truly tell you picks up the other one and starts or nata." to figuratively annihilated There is an elaborate athletic program ' In these "i osadas." lodg¬ the premiercuvee of European cham¬ toward merriment, but what weren t a b.t better than the to the workshops, leaving Santa participants when one of the guests finally succeeds ful effort which be^ ins in the forenoon, and, afte.- in the sunshine or in warm as.tes to that they ing seeklngs. The families, rich and poor, sm it to pagnes. After the supper they have the in numbers when he was size. over his Christmas lists. On his low flock to the various in shing pieces. Mexican re¬ they lack they invariably an hour or so off for dinner at midday, germinate. If St. Barbara's grain grows ones he got just your high and alike, The host and hostess graceful ceremonial danceg one continues toward .he little, o d man passes the stable. to the many miniature blindfold their our make up in other ways, of these be¬ well along sunset. Sail¬ well or il , to will the coming harvest Stilts are plentiful among the patents, booths buy plas¬ numerous guests as in our sembling old "Fisher's hornpipe" ors are to be m which come sounds of strenuous ter and marble figures and altars for the "blind man's and The musical accompani¬ the complete satisfaction of the inner taught thorough. So they be. Later comes the cutting of the yule one of the first designs patented . as he buff.'* They are then whirled around quadrilles. ing go at their races and and vity. Inside, peeps through the season. 'I*e humbler families have sim¬ ments are rendered the peculiar y me¬ are and fruit cakes potato pie-eating The oldest man of the cuts as ever in¬ he sees other little brown men and around and led about the patio by man. There turkeys contests and tugs of war and log. family seems as practical anything or, ple little white altars and plaster re¬ lodious Mexican bands. The midnight jumping a orking away merrily. In the until the "pinata's" location is a mys¬ galore for thr« men as well as the officers, contests with the same fervor that they fruit-bearing tree, almond, apple, oak vented since. But right next comes a ligious ftgures. large, old, spacious The blindfolded mass follows, called "la misa del gallo," or pear. The uses the ax on hooK. Some are giving the old sleigh a new for a tery. guests are in and in a quiet way all hands make the show when trying for a thlrteen-inch grandfather skipping rope hanging limply a Mexican palaces ample gathering turn given a long rod and told to the mass of the rooster. and then the son finishes the work. The it looks from one kind ot coat of bright red paint, others are shin¬ of many neighboring and related fami¬ best of it, even though they are not lucky turret-gun record or stamping out a Cen¬ How different "romper la pinata." or smash the This "pascuas de Navidad,"' the joy of tral There is no log is five feet long, and is expected rope that was invented shortly ing up its brass trimmings, while still lies the altar spectacles in onyx and mar¬ The lookers-on will to home. American revolution. to if covered all skipping . thers are the "pinata." enjoy the the Nativity, celebration in Mexico, enough go lack of interest that can be on. burn, night, from after the civil war. That one wasn t polishing harness.* And ble are very beautiful. efforts of the depended Christmas eve to New Year over in the stables Dunder and Blitzen the frantic blindfolded to be observed by Huertalistas and Carran- In accordance with immemorial cus¬ And when mess call is sounded they are day. Before limp at all. but could be used as a hoop Large figures representing Nativity break the hanging jar. for a very brief season, the eating of the great supper the a ure stomping In their Impatience to be¬ and are frequently made of silver zalistas, alike, tom, the mastheads are decorated with tired enough to stop skylarking for a just as well In fact, it was called magi After an hour and more of a which battle and murder will >oungest members of the family light it was gin their long journey over the house and plate. Toys, flowers, fruits and sport during with a touch of color also about while and hungry enough to do full jus¬ ^kipping hoop." When opened gold lucky one strikes the "pinata" a furious give way to seemingly brotherly love. green, the log. it was the t<>ps more religious statues, varying accord¬ and its contents whereas the individual deco¬ tice to the traditional dinner, which, in The little "creche" and and a bar" inserted skipping In the all is noise and bus¬ of blow, and fragments Mexico's Thanksgiving day, "dia de the decks, these latter of and gayly-painted rope, and was ail right as long as it workshops ing to the means the family, cover the are scattered over the marble lloor This Gracias," is the last day of the year. rations of tables forward are often elab¬ days supply ships other small, inexpensive clay figures tle. Scores upon scores of little men In altars which are brilliantly lighted by cold storage, is just as ample and as are found in home. didn't hit you on the shins. mirth-making ceremony is repeated The Mexicans' nearest approach to our orate, if not, Indeed, pretentious. every Before dark Just about time a sinati brown are working away upon thousands great white car.files for the celebration the boys and and -Christmas gifts is the however, Christmas is usually tempting in the Bay of Biscay or in mid- Christmas eve the children go out to this you spy of of them are much nightly by girls; hours Santa Claus At that, Pacific as it would be if were white doll's dresser. But brother toys. Most younger of "Un Nacimiento," the coming of are by them groping de los the. of the a in home ports, because of the the ship look for the magi. They carry vi ltli than the old man with the ark. spent about the "el dia reyes," day quiet day tied the cobdock in around the corner, excitedly l r little, Christ. The traditional ox in the manger "patio." sawing the air and the as seen in Latin countries number of authorized absentees. Abroad up alongside Brooklyn them confectionery for the magi, figs yells This is because Santa found that he had at our Tx>rd's birtli is represented in ar¬ beating kings, navy yard or lying off the custom house for the servants and mother. He has found a great but auto¬ walls and stately columns with their generally. and at sea, though, it is altogether dif¬ hay for the tired and u« to employ more and more people to make tistic miniatures. leaden-tipped rods in desperate then make to their dear soul aboard, from the usu¬ wharf in Charleston. camels. They also put up sheaves for mobile that runs. It is a wagon, in order to with the num¬ efforts They gifts ferent. Every It need be said for a wants to clamber in. And.just about toys keep up Three and four generations, old gray- to smash the gift-filled jar. Again and ones similar to our Christmas giving. ally sedate fls# officer and the more or scarcely that, the birds, and the wealthy tend out ber of presents to be made each year. haired grand and great-grand parents, again throughout the season it is broken The Mexicans who have traveled abroad, less unapproachable first lieutenant down while at least, there is a lull in the donkeys laden with bread, meat, figs his time mother discovers it is time tu go Then, too. with the increasing demand their Pons and daughters, grandsons and treasures littering the our cook and active proceedings after* dinner. .Even and almonds which are sold for a few iome. Why. goodness me, it's almost din¬ its fall, floor and and in land especially, sometimes to "Jimmy-legs," the ship's the tl>e for mechanical toj s, he had to get ex- granddaughters, bewitching dark-skinned it is replaced by another. have Christmas trees. They call the tree messenger boy, voluntarily constitutes men "who go down to the sea in ships" cents to the poor. The nougat pie or iner time. And then-down shooU workers, as none of the old senoritas, swarthy senors and the ubiqui¬ In the homes of the wealthy Mexicans .'arbol de Navidad," the "tree of the himself a committee of one to see the need a little undisturbed rest after doing pudding of almonds and honey are «n . ?levator, you are soon out of tne *in!" {eriencedTown men knew how to mnk° them TTut. tous little children jrathev around th^ the shattered .pinata's" contents are Nativity." tiling through in "old navy" fashion, and jtii-tk-e to soup and vegetables, turkey the table for the great supper. and the vial to toyland is ovm