The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1919, Page 36

ee eee FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1919 St. Nick Breaks And Fills New York Shops | World’s Record | AN hotel naw aienan, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1919 With Novel American Toys) = -A Visit to New York’s Toy Shops Reveals a Varied Assortment of Ingenious American- Made Toys—Woolly Dogs That Look Mutt-Like—Life-Like Dolls That Even ' Mother and Aunt : Fondle, and a Toy Entire Apartment Sally Would Love to City That Requires an to Set Up. By Fay Stevenson Coprright, U9, by The Press Publishing On (ihe Now Tork Brening Words JHRISTMAS is On its way again and it-certainly looks as if all the daddies and grand-daddies and grown-up male members of the family, who become little boys again on that wonderful morn and help the kiddies enjoy their brand new toys, are going to have just as good if not @ better time than the kiddies themselves. Af- ter a visit to the convinced that this leading toy.shops in the city I feel is to be a banner day for all the lit- tle folks as well as—well those overgrown male young: eters that appear long before break- ™ fast and spend the day, winding up ‘ mechanical toys, buildin g block houses and beating little tom-toms on the new drum— with guch enthusiasm that we can warcely toll them from the kiddies except for the length of their legs and the size of the bald spot on their heads. Perhaps ona reason every one Is go- ing to enjoy himself so much this year is because most of the toys on sale are American-made. All of Santa Claus's shops are simply chuck full of American-made toys. And When one glances about at these home-made products he comes to the conclusion that Uncle Sam and old St. Nick make pretty good pals when ft comes to concocting mechanical toys that work Uke magic, woolly dogs that look mutt-like enough to bark, and character dolls that resem~ Me « six-months-old baby 60 much that one has to look twice to convince Rimeett it is only @ doll. It Uncle Gam keeps on turning out dolls ike this he'll have mamma and Aunt Sally and sister Bue down on the floor playing dolls and THEN who'll enough space to fill a modern apart- ment, being shown on the fourth floor of the manufactured by a Baltimore firm and is by far the most fascinating and wonderful toy ever created. The ‘Toy City, including a surrounding canopy, | which provides the changing horizon where the lights cleverly simulate the transition from day to night, is 16 feet wide, 11 feet 6 inches deep and 9 feet 8 inches high. A switchboard with more than one hundred electrical con- nections, through which are put into operation the innumerable toys, oc- cupies an additional floor space of 19 by 25 inches, Therefore, no matter how much little Johnnie or Willle or { omie ery fot the Toy City, daddie will have to either rent them a sep- arate apartment or build a suburban home in whieh to store it. ightseer, willing to be con- vinced, but perhaps at first doubtful, gazes upon the Toy City he loses the sense of unreality, Before him extends the business centre of a metropolis with its commercial action, its shoe stores, millinery stores, fancy goods stores, drug ‘stores, music stores, butcher stores, its mounted police cook the turkey, bake the mince ples, | squads, traffic policemen, !uminated eck the festive board and do all the | pin boards, its great city squares with other thousand and one things the/an electrical fountain illuminated by women folk attend to while the men | changing lights, a polico station, mint- and the kiddies make merry? But Uncle Gam hi ature skyscrapers, a public lYprary, a quite outdone | bank, a great Union Depot and a sec- himself and ®roken the world record | tion of the subway beneath the ¢ity this year in creating the most expen- sive and wonderful toy ever manu- factured. It is called the Toy City, with green and red discs flaming to signalize the arrival and departure of trains, @ semaphore switch station ERB is Little Mary Mixup « Eleanor’s Kiddie Klub mem mas Eve; nothing dolly with outstretched arms of Mary's dolly. ‘bérdly think he'll pass up Little 4\ is stirring—not aid of one of mother’s satin covered pillows, the living room divan. The log fire is sending forth a cheering warmth, otherwise Little Mary in her cotton nightie might feel chilly. Mary's two stockings pinned securely to the mantle. \ Will they be filled? 4@ sure placing a heavy burden on Santa's shoulders\this Christmas, but OW rien perhaps, she might be one of Cousin rs. Observe her closely, "Tis Christ even a cocktail spoon, The is seen resting comfortably with the borrowed for the occasion from Observe Also the minute one Old H, ©. of L, Let us hope costs $4,000 and would take up This marvellous Toy City is now | Bush Terminal sales building. It was house—all a above a fire engine » are in this extraordinary toy city no less than three train systems, two trolley systems and a roaring subway, What « good time the dad- dies and kiddies could have if this toy only cost $8 and was small enough to tuck under the bed! -“What type of toys do you think the twentieth century youngsters will appreciate this year?” I ask James ‘Taylor, toy division ma: ager of the Bush ‘Terminal sales building. “The same kind of toys they've been playing with for years back!” snapped Mr, Taylor with a knowing wink and a good natured smile as if he and the kiddies had talked it over together. “The boys will want me- chanical toys, tool sets, baseballs, dats, punching bags and strictly mas- culine presents, while the girls will expect doll houses, baby carriages, cradles and all sizes and sorts of dolls.” “But hasn't the war made a decided change in the output of toys?" I per- sisted. | “In this respect,” replied Mr. Tay- | lor assuming a more serious attitude, | “I am glad to say there are very few guns, swords, soldier suits, cannons or military toys, We are getting away from all that and it may just be be cause of the late war and the G mans’ former way of flooding the toy market with that line of goods. “But while there are few war im- plements for toys the war has drought fortti a vast number of me- chanical toys. ‘Tanks, submar ‘in ad airplanes which can fly 350 feet are to. be found in many toy shops. Those toys will not incur the spirit of war or a desire to fight sham battles but rather develop the mechanical trend of @ boy’s mind.” Many other managers of toy shops confirmed Mr, Taylor's remark that we are getting away from all military toys, “Mechanical toys which make the child think and toys which keep children out in the open air are all the rage,” said one manager, “No doubt, quite unconsciously, we were falling into the German way of giving our children war-like toys, and toys which might inspire thoughts which American manufacturers would not create, I hope we continue to have American-made toys in large quan- tities because then we can inculcate our own American ideas. It seems to me that every nation ought to manu- factuse its own toys and by so doing | represent its own individuality and| spirit, Surely we ought to know the} mind of the American child, what will please it and hold its attention and at the same time develop it as a} American citizen, better than any F nation on earth.” to it, daddies and kiddies, Christmas morn and see if you don't vote for Uncle Sam and Santa Claus as co-workers from now to doomsday Bt chee aces, To watch airplane flights without Mary, straining the neck an inventor has patented a mirror to be attached at any angle to the end of field glasses. ee SUBWAY STATION IN “TOY CITY Copyright, 1910, by The Press A feature, semi-fictional in sary to particular vocations, and The questions assist in bringing stimulating thought about it, AMILTON was always “tinker- H ing’ in one way and another. He had a work bench in the cellar and a wireless outfit on the top fluor, His library waa stocked with works on mechanics and electricity. When he was not in the cellar work~ ing he was delving into these books. Anna, his wife, who was a plain sen- sible woman, resented these, to her, curious occupations and could not understand why he did not like visit- inte with her in the evenings or going to the theatre or movies like other people So the man lived in a world of his woman did too. own, as in fact the He had married while he was a book keeper and by dint of faithful work and some initiative had become office manager in an export house, But he had no particular interest in business and no particular interest in money making as such, He could not under- stand why were obsessed with the idea of money, Yet he could lose men himself for hours in some mathe- matical or electrical problem His friends—those of them that had his real good at heart—used to say fo him, “Hamilton, you're wasting your time in this business, Why don't you take a couple of years off and engineer?” head t an But and was just in yourself to be Hamilton only shook his_own way to live his went His si on And There Ham. enough was never any surplus. ELOQUENT. ‘6 3 is the J finest af ter-dinnor | Speaker I ever heard,” He al- says, ‘Waiter, give that check to me American Legion Weekly, What Would You Do? By Helen Cramp Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) 1, Mistakes made in choosing careers; 2. Particular qualities neces- The Story of a Misfit Whose Loss of Happiness Proved a Boon. ary | method, designed to point out: 3%. The danger of haphazardness, out the point of the story, and in ilton had the poor man's horror of debt. The adjacent technical school opened some evening classes, and Hamilton attended for one winter, but Anna fretted and fumed because he had to stay in town threo eve- nings a week, and when the end of the session came “hoped there'd be no more such foolishness.” And there wasn’t. Hamilton went on in the old way, His hair began to turn and his step lost its buoyancy. He walked with a stoop. silent, Most people pronounced him queer. One day Anna went off with an- other man. strange unaccountable happenings— the last thing in the world that any- one would have expected from Anna. The next day Hamilton handed in his resignation. “He always was a queer Dick,” his féllow-workers said. Hasnilton tooka two month's vaca- | tion, He went away on a fishing trip, and though he did not catch many fish he did some deep thinking—the kind of thinking a man can only do when he is in the woods and free after years of bondage. When he came back there was the light of a new purpose in his eye and step, He turned up one morning in the office of a friend who was a me- chanical engineer, ’ “Well, Hamilton, what's up?” “Where's the best place for an old like me to study?” | man Good for you! me. I'm going out to meet the very man you want to eee.” And the two set out. | QUESTIONS. | 1, Should Hamilton have thrown up | his Job long ago? | 2 Did he really love Anna or was | he lacking in initiative? 3. Would he have kept Anna's love He was) It was one of those! Come along with Toys Ranging From a 25-Cent Rag Doll To an $8,000 Toy City to Choose From { but ’Tis the Wife Clean Shirt, A-going. A to Calvary.” | is the fact that he is shrewd enough Woman, the paid Promoter and ap- plauder—sho like- wise has an un- paralleled chance to go behind the acenes, to see the star with her makeup off and her grouch dn, to qe exumine the tricks ma of lighting and| | stage management by which—adroit- ly and sensibly—the Modern Woman helps to captivate her public. And doubtless no star can be wholly the heroine to her press agent. What does Joan Allway, Mr, Jer- ome'’s journalist, whose beauty is only equalled by her uplift urge, think of the woman of to-day and her achievements? What are the lessons of life Joan herself learns from her years in Fleet Street, London’s Park Row? | Put in the, briefest possible form, these are the five judgments of Joan —and of Mr. Jerome: A woman is helpless to ac- complish anything except as a wife. Copyright, 1919, by The (The New York Evening World.) on to post If you do not like your job, what YOU are to do, understanding. husband or wife, have understanding—find out what the trouble day to day. STOP WORRY—try it—DO Now! Understand me? Yours truly, GOING DOWN. Press Publishing MY DEAR READER: If I had but one thing to say ‘be- fore I died—one thing to pass erity that would help ages to come—I would but Get UNDERSTANDING. Plant your ‘feet firm on the rock of TRUTH and KNOW! If you are worried about any- thing, have an understanding. to the man over you and have an understanding — Gnd out Let not the sun go down on any MIS- If you are worried about your just is—do mot carry @ load of rubbish and worries along with you from THIS WIL, POSITIVELY ALFALFA SMITH. A second-choice marriage is better than none. Woman was intended to be depend- ' ij . ©o)/| Earning her own living develops | woman on wrong lines—against her | nature. What matters it who holds the) purse-strings? | Mr, Jerome's Joan wanted to re- | form the world. Since reading “All| Roads Lead to Calvary,” my own am- bition has been to reform Joah, For| 48 & newspaper woman myself, I challenge each of the above “traths"— with hayseeds in their hair, It is strange that, in any novel pub- lished since the war by an English- man, one should read such sentences as the following: “One must take the world as one finds it. It gives the unmated woman no opportunity to employ the special gifts with which God has endowed her—except for evi.” For four years and a halt the world gave the English woman an opportunity to keep England go- ing—and she who could grasp this opportunity most quickly, and surely was the nmated woman, with no lit- tle children to hold her back. + Accomplishment is comparative. From one point of view few in- dividuals, men or women, mated or unmated, accomplish anything worth while, But how purely preposterous go an Ir _ What Eve Said About Resolutions By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by The Prem O not pay too much to see the stage of life. Remember a wife's a wife for a’ that. Give ear to the washwoman as well as your social partner, Publishing Co, (The New. York Fyening World.) ‘The Most Helpless Being On Earth Is a ‘Wife’—Neither Mother; Homemaker Nor Earner JEROME K. JEROME’S THEORIES “Woman Was Intended to Be Dependent on Man,” Says Jerome—Possibly, Say We, Pajamas, Slips the Cuff Links in Hubby’s Sends His Overcoat to the Cleaners and Keeps -the Furnace Fire By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) HUMORIST come to judgment on the modern woman, but a humorist turned for the moment into a deep purple pessimist— that is Jerome K. Jerome, whose books and plays long ago en- deared him to the American public, in his newest novel, “All Roads Lead What makes Mr. Jerome’s counsel of despair particularly significant paper woman. For if she is the press agent of the drama of the Modern ent on man. | Know that the way to happiness is often paved with sacrifice, Do not expect too much from a friend and you will always have one. Know that money can buy everpthing but peace and love and self. respect A habit in control is worth two in the resolution. Habits may come and habits m nay go, but resolutions go on forever. He who makes a habit of breaking promises finds that the habit finally breaks him, A trifler will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. A grain of humor has, times without number, been the one thing that has sugar coated an otherwise bitter pill. ‘ The everlasting talk is of eliminating waste, but the greatest elimination of waste is the saving of the human being, Hold on, but look ahead for the next “hold.” “With every despair a new hope is born”—if you don't stop to despair too long to grasp it. The Mermaid, HE was a “famous woman," be- cause she was a that .served “famous” That was enough for the Mei She was named after an ench lady of the vasty deep, her feet. if he had done the thing he wanted? 4. What qualities of success did he Street, fj have? London, Pass with glance the bar in front SecA peeewen f m “famous” who woman to her girdle, apd a fish to Her figure was on the sign- board of the famous ign, in Friday | behind of the blackened roof and pol- dshed tables—tap-room on the left— low doorways, winding passages— and you come to the inn parlor. This is the Mermaid! And the men gitting there? Ben Jonson, Fletcher, Beau- mont, Carew, Donne, and—SHAKE- SPEARE. Shakespeare is roaring inn men, rmaid. anting is a over his dog’s nose, and Ben Jonson over his canary. Oh, listen to the wit— combats between Shakespeare and ,basty| Ben Jonson! Mermaid, dear “famous parlor Wal why were you not @ twin? sas meta as wr” Who Hangs Up His to put it into the mouth of a news- to imply that the director of a bu- reau of child hygiene, the leader of the suffrage movement, the brilliqgt writer, the clear-eyed, intelligeflt business woman is “helpless to ac- complish anything,” compared to, the fluffy-brained, bridge-playing, money spending damsel who displays that magic talisman, a wedding ring! The most helpless being on earth, the chief cumberer of ea rth, ts the wo- man who ts merely “a wife’—neither mother, home-maker, nor earner, Be- side her even that figure of fun to the members of my profession, that overworked celebrity, the “prominent clubwoman,” seems a truly ful and broad-minded citizen, As for the time-honored theory that & second-choice marriage, even ap unhappy marriage, is better for @ woman than single blessedness, the national advertiser has invented the ‘dest refutation, with his command to “avoid all substitutes.’ A second-choice marriage is like any “second”—flawed or injured im some way before the consumer ac- duires ft. It is shoddy, It will not wear well. Of the marriages that reach the divorce court, and the even larger number of marriages that line ser along—as they say in New Eng- land, “enjoy poor health”—I am cone vinced the great majority were origi« nally @ “second,” if not @ fifth or sixth choice, for elther the husband or wife or both. “Woman was intended to be de Pendent on man.” ‘That is a literal quotation from Joan—and Mr, Jers ome. The only way to treat a re- mark like that is to do a G. K. Ches- terton to it—in short, to turn it up- side Gown. Which makes it read, “Man was intended to be dependent on woman,” He WAS! Any wife can prove it. He can’t pick up his own pajamas and hang them on a hook in the closet, he can’t put the sleeve-links in hia shirt, he can't renew his sup- plies of handkerchiefs and collars, he can’t keep the furnace fire from ‘go- ing out, he can't send his overcoat ty the cleaner’s, he can’t put away any- thing, remember anything, FINI) anything—if there is a ‘woman around to do it for him. He is the most de pendent creature on earth—comparea to him the Tower of Pisa is rigidly Perpendicular and the Wine is selfe supporting. And after Joan had been married ONE WEEK I’ found it out! I wager’ que Lord Dunsany agrees wit rome in feeling one of the aiteiaiee of civilization to be that so many women must earn their own livin But Lord Dunsany is a poet, there. fore privileged. I simply cannot find any logical basis for the assumption that it is against her nature for a woman to earn her living, that the process jlevelops ™ proves ps her “on wrong It we were living in a state of na= ture, surely every one, man or women would eqrn a living—or cease to Jive, In primitive times there is no record of the parasite female, who was sup ported in absolute idleness as a tri. bute to her sweetness and light, Among tribes still uncivilized, i woman seems to do rather more of i} the hard work than man. She as- | suredly earns her living. Except for a gertain number of pantpered ladies.in highly artificial civilizations, every woman earns her” own living, The only new thing about the business, nowadays. is that more and more frequently she insists on being PAID somewhere near the amount she earns, The instinctive satisfaction with which she grips her pay envelope is enough proof for me that it doesn't go against HER na ture. As to the question of whethe: it goes against MAN’S nature to give her the pay envelope—like Bun- ker Bean, “I can imagine nothing of lesd importance.” And if it doesn't matter, Mr, Je- rome, who holds the purse-strings, why not let the Mqdern Woman in- dulge her fad, fier precious folly, if you like, of holding at least ONE of them? You see, she thinks it does matter; she is a bit tired of being a pepsioner, a beggar, a cajoler to the Man Who Carries the Purse. Joan Allway, as one newspaper woman to another, I'm ashamed ‘of you! ADVERTISEMENT. 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