The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1911, Page 4

+ et ATI DIT I AY 4 THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1911. = i (OVS THAT MAKE | Toys to Stimulate Youngsters’ Minds HMDREN THINK | 002 So Experts Declare, and They \ Are a'Feature of the Child’s Welfare Exhibit. WHAT CAN Be DONE GY AN INGENIOUS CHILD = " TOY HOUSE MADE FROM PLAIN Box i Miss AGATHA KENT EXPLAINING THE new “puwrtn” DOLL , DESIGNED BY Miss PRATT SS al | THE DOWITH FAMIZY.! MASTER SEEGER ( SHOWING HOW A CHILD CAN MAKE TOYS with A FRET SAW Elaborate Mechanical Toys De- signed to Please Rich Uncle Who Gives. } THE "DuwiTH” By Ethel Lloyd Patterson, ‘There ts Page Dowstk and Mama Dowith and all the little Dow: most desirab: lly. You can bend | them any way you ke; they stand alone and their) heads come off. Also there is p> paint upon them to cause Indigestion If a 6 FH you absentmindediy happen to,put one of them tn your Feature of Child's Welfare Exhibit A” DISAPPEARING TaSLe RAILROAD WINS | “REVERSAL IN SUT ~ WOMAN BROUGH | | Appellate Division Reverses | Mrs. Howe’s Judgment for Looting of Air Line. | | The Appellate Division of the Su- Preme Court In reversing an interloou- tory Judgment of the lower court, dealt & severe blow to-day to Elizabeth F, | Howe, who sued the New York, Haven and Hartford Rafiroad Com- pany in behalf of herself and other stockholders of the Boston and New With Your Lunch ‘OU don’t want a poor cigar after a good lunch or dinner. ‘There’s just as much difference in beers as cigars-you can’t make good cigars from poor tobacco, Pabst BlueRibbon ‘The Beer of Quality which costs twice as much as 4-day process. and wholesome. stion, your cigars. is made with Pabst exclusive 8-day malt the usual That's why it’s so rich It gives a keen appetite and aids di- Be as particular in selecting your beer as ' OST’S SATURDAY FUR SALE Those who have been waiting for Real Bargains in choice bs may have their patience rewarde to-morrow, beyond their most Sanguine expectations. Every Fur Garment, every Piece of Fur in the POST Store, regardless of its intrinsic om is reduced to about THE COST OF PRODUCTION. In some instances the prices have been cut still deeper—down to the cost of the raw material alone! POST Furs are Guaranteed to be exactly as represented, and they are cared for during the Summer months without cost to the purchaser. " Fur Bargains Yorks Air Line Ratiroad Company for the alleged looting of the property of the air line. ‘Tho plaintiffs said that the New Ha- | ven road leased the air line, located fn Connecticut, and agreed to keep tho | property in good order, but instead “for | the purpose of depreciating its value allowed {t to fall into a state of disre- pair, rendered the train service insuMm- jclent, and caused rumors to be ciroulated | that the roadbed, bridges and structures were unsafe and dangerous.” Having thus depr ‘ed the value of | | the airline stock, the complaint recited, | the New Haven company acquired #a | controlling the air! Jelected a caused a # made to { THE WRONG —\ AND BOK FOR CHWS | sag an ina ce in fraud of the . But of course you are not in the he a PLAYTHINGS — [rights of stockholders.”* bit of putting you friends in your Riewt KIND oF xq . | ‘The Blatntifts insked that the New) mouth any way; #0 1 suppose you can t is ——S en Railroad be made to account to| TE scarcely be blamed for wondering why SCISSORS FoR > le for the property of the air line. tee T impgine you would under any circum-| C@HILOREN HOME MADE t on behalf of the Boston and New Tr re emeey senave tins familiacly with the “DuwITH" Toy = SHOWING Air Line Railroad Company 1s alleged,” family of Dowith. | ACURATE HARNESSING |sald the Appellate Division, “But tt is 7 is “gl \osvqpe seri Nedshid bah -_— - —~ ++ - - ———. A settled in this State that, In such a in truth made of little wooden manni- role! : SIMPLE ase, the direct injury is'to the cor- | Kins that are part of the toy shop dis- | Sharacter, and a quotation arty = rye ceiivigd re ppobtal dear f CHICKEN ation, and that a stockholder may | , WE MF: a the New York Oniic Welfare) <td must learn, These unusually, in-| | “Whose fatal curion, let loose all the Fen? attain an action In his individual r nd educatio nes from| evils wh | pace ad Petia tore nee he “Macbeth” I selected at random However, it rq ae oes 7 ven handed justice “Dowiths,". have all been approve! LY |Commends, the ingredients of our pol- experts and are on exhibition to demon-| — goned chalice strate the ethical and educational value|» our own lips.” of properly selected playthings. complete laun: played in the toy fll any little girl There is also 4 com | Gimilarly there t# the mythological game] and for a ttle voy kindy” explained Miss Agnes Ken) ho | theee questions the child must answer.|the child the rudiments of domestic ts in charge of the toy booth. | As, on the “Pandora” card: economy.” simpler a child's toys the better. “Who was the first woman according] The Norwegian peasants have best plan is to urage @ child to|to the Greek myth? tributed some gaily painted mini sake his own toy “Who was sent as a punishment to] furniture to the exhibition, and from I asked her. ade, f iscarded soap boxes. three } “Well, we have here the Dowith tray,"|— fT rel Kent, holding that article H toward me. “You see, it is a flat-rimmed H ‘ox top containing the various imple- mstitutions for blind children Jack and two chickens that can be made to fight. | One of the most Intertsting nes of \ toys In the Welfare Exhibit was being wood oys upon whicl “Experts, who understand the proper |to divert the budding intelligence. The | tools. Ae rcs | dahon by two small boys, Her- | ami ents for children, strongly dis- | cards of this pastime each bear a repro-| ‘These implements," Miss Kent re-] “Laetus sorte mea,” or, if T remember 4" Seeger and Joseph Ratmist. These, approve of mechanical toys of any | ductiOn of a mythological character and| marked, “can all be used in teaching |my Latin, “The jight has left me." with the ald of a fret saw and the lids ‘The children from the Felix Adler of discarded cheese boxes, were fashion- ‘ jon a three-room |ing solders and men In the most spirited hiture and all, ‘They 80 some wooden toys, a Jumping- paint. attitudes, which were subsequently fin- ished in gay colors with a few dashes of | Best & Cor Reduced Prices Children’s and Uisses’ Viet Kid Shoes Button and Lace. Sizes 6 to 10% Former price $2.28 c.0eb0r00s00ecs0esbsero Sizes 11 to 2. Former price $3.25... 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Th re the Dowith ant mals, which aré, I think, quite as fas hating as the erman wooden to: They are constructed of thinner plec of wood, but tw ad three thickness Are used to give perspective to the limbs. | ‘Therg {x the Dowith cow, a lovely docile creature with leathor ears and a tall | that Moves on hinge: The Dowith dog | is, I ghould say, not atrong on ancestry, | Dut none the less a likable canine with | ‘| Aelectubly wobbting ears. All the Do- i with animals are carved from plain, un- eolored wood, given a light coat of var- | nish and adorned with one black splotch Upon any portion of thelr anatomy Where it would seem most ilable to im- Part additional chic. “The idea of all properly selected toys fe to encourage the child to think for Ateeif,” Miss Kent continued. “One way | child, let us say for ex- ample, a of scissors. Then the ehild must be encouraged to think what | he Reeds to complete his toy, Is it Paper to cut with the scissors? Plainly , he should be able Of scissors are not is something to cat; to play and to think at the same time.” “But suppose the scissors only suggest to the child that the fringe on the par- Jor furniture needs to be cut,’ I pro- tested. | “Well, of course, that sort of thing | is qnite a problem," admitted Miss Kent. | “A child needs the mature Judgment always near to guide !t. A child has to | he taught that to destroy a completed Article i not in the least the same as shaping raw materials into completion.” | “Why do child experts object to me- _ Ghaniecal toys?" 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