WHERE THE TOYS COME FROM.
Nine-tenths of all the toys which will fill the stockings of youngsters on Christmas morning are manufactured in Germany. In Sonneburg, a little town in Thuringen, almost the entire industry ia confined to the manufacture of dolls. The inhabitants are poor people and are brought up to doll making. From all over the world large numbers of dealers in toys go to Sonneburg every year. There are at least five hundred different kinds of dolls, and while the French invent many of the most attractive, the Germans copy them so cheaply that the buyers go principally to Germany for their supplies. From Nuremberg come the magnetic toys, swords, guns, woolly Bheep, jumping- jacks, trumpets, and many ingenious mechanical toys. The carved wooden toys are made in Saxony. Toy horses, cows, elephants, oats, lions, tigers and all kinds of animals are made in German prisons.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 50, 14 December 1899, Page 3
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149WHERE THE TOYS COME FROM. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 50, 14 December 1899, Page 3
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