THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1946.
NURSERY WAR
HASN'T STARTED
WILLE reports from America sy
Junior is now plaguing his nister with such educational toys as the Gummn-Ray Destructor. wor and postwar weapon development
sceni
By RICHARD ̋ ELLEY
YET
TONTA.
NOTHER pre-war toy you can A have in n searchlight, which throws strong beam from torch- battery juice. It's fun, especially if chase Only in a few lines are children (Jeep this Chrisiman. Anyway, it you can get grandfather to Wor to have left the English getting toys developed from 1839-45 will be a good one because model the beam round the
weapons, and in these the air-jeeps, wooden or metal, pull-on-n toya nearer life-size are in
There are some tin nursery pretty cold.
The main reason la the current minded child is streets better off string or clockwork, all seem to be short supply.
and Rome of those shortage of toys and materinis for than the one with nautical idea or as sturdily built as the full-size swords ainking toys. Although there are the very poor third whose passion prototypes; and there are some very theatrical daggers with blades that good pedal-ear jeeps, complete with disappear into the handle, which an wheel imaginative youngster might adapt and ferrican, but like Daddy's new as Commando knives. There are
he Fot
arr also car-
few crude wooden sub- one they rather austero and they are a bit machine guns, but no rifles or nice. hard to sit on.
new things like bazookas..
Army,
still not enough to meet demanda la the future RAF type there is movable windscreen, apare
There are more toys than last year. but
more than three-quarters of the toy-maker's output is earmarked for export and Ideas and blueprints, like some of those Intended for grimmer purposes, are becoming obsolete be fore they go into production.
"Gimpkins-remind me to recom. mand you for promotion."
SHOP
For a magnificent collection of build- scale model aeroplanes, your-own from the homely Wellington to the exotic Stormoviks, the dashing Spitfire (Mark I and Mark 11) to the sinister ME (109 and 110), the screaming Hellent to the gentle Typhoon to Horza glider, the fiery Typhoon the stately Lysander, and
before Christmas the range of jet-pinnes in expected to include the record breaking Meteor. To accommodate these models, some of which fly, the enthusiast can buy-hangam and other airfeld attings. including tables taking tea.
and chairs wilb alrcrew
THE warship fancier
eun
An American firm is putting scale- model tanks with movable turrets on the maritet; they are precision- made models of Shermans, Tigers. Churchills and others, and are very effective for staging battle scenes. but the tracks don't turn and it is unlikely that there will be many on the market before Christmas.
a
nid
The nursery library has acquired little from World War II. You can and one or two works such as "Calling All Arms (with 130 us trations)" and a boys' book on the naval war, then "Little Ailles (Fairy and folk tales of 14 nallons);" and something "Sovietbus" seem to owe
to recent history, but generally the old stuff about fairies, animals and adverturous boys and girls gota on in much the saine way.
OY soldiers will be completely ΤΟΥ
abrent from this year's
Warlike Jig-now puzzles are alınost Let stockings. The reason is that the none: in a large collection I saw only. plenty of model warships, many Government just will not release two that had anything to do with of which claim to be to scale, but lend to make toy soldiers. One of the Services. Among games of the few of them will sell even in a bath-London's biggest toy shops reports Snakes and Ladders" and "Mong- tub.
are not bothering
poly,"
where I felt pretty sure of model are mostly "waterline that customers
That lo they stop short at them unduly for soldiers; instead reeing an "Alameln" "Normandy" or from they are clamouring for clectic "Battle of Britain, I was told there
the waterline. They ecimens trains and other mechanical toya was nothing to sell that wasn't there
finger long, badly finished
to sleek, plastic, assemble-yourself which, like, the soldiers, they can't to sell in 1999. scale models, the latest of which are have. Tribal and Javelin class destroyers, complete with guns, turrets, pom- poms, davits and searchlights which can be moved about to fit into a
battle scene.
But the would-be soldler, if he swants to be up-to-date, will probably have to be content with a
EARLY IS
GOOD ADVICE
VEN in the conjuror's section of a big shop, which should have been certainty
and for Radar
£1
There are one Or two forta available, but they
are pre-war models, in design a mixture of the medieval and the Foreign Legion Atomic tricks, there was nothing of types and not much use to the young the sort. True, there is an Atomic man who wants to reconstruct the West Wall or the Mareth Lite And Rope Trick, but it is just a better doing the cut-rope-thal- way of anyway, what's the use of a for mysteriously-becomes-whole-again under also, were heading of "Spring advertised "Strings
without soldlers to attack and de- fend it?
pre-war
business;
Of Sausages
The artillery expert can have alf-Locking" which might have few guns, but they are models of hold, siege and AA design and often of unspecified types. None the less, Daddy,
they ure better than the one you had when you were a
were
to
received some Inspiration from the amortal soya link. But I was told that most of the new ideas npigeon-holed because manufacturers
simply couldn't get around boy because some not only shoot
oot making the essential gadgets. pellets right across the sitting-room but fire a cap simultaneously, Bro Keeping the war out of the nursery It is unnecessary to re- when he called off the miners' strike breech-londing and have ingenious may or may not be a good thing.
American cities are full of depart-gadgets for fixing bearings mind you this year to shop carly
ment stores, and these are already elevation. But if you want a 17- and avold the crowds. Having ex-doing a roaring trade, according to pounder or a 7.2 gun-how, you'll
just have to wait. perienced the daily throngs in the survey. Americans streets and the press of people on ping carly. the ferries, trams and buses, you
PERHAPS
do so.
ara also shop-
Gifts for children and women are probably have already determined to plentiful, says the report, but ther It's a wise course. Imagine man in the family isn't getting much the lot of the last-minute shopper, of a chance, for neckties seem to be laden with bundles, and offspring the only thing available for him. tugging coat or dress perhaps, try- ing to force a passage on to a ferry
Macy's, the big New York store, did $3,000,000 business Inst which year in the week before Christmas, Write down now what you want to expects to average between $5,000,- advertise | 000 and $0,000,000 this year. A Los buy, then examine the ments to see if the articles offered Angeles retailer said: "This should casily be the biggest Christmas in answer your requirements.
the history of department stores." down on your list the names of the shops, and make your purchases from them early in the next 11 days. Remember, there are only 11 more days to Christmas.
where already at
work:.
Note
A
British goods are on display in American stores this year. Bicycles made in England are popular. One shipment offered for sale a few days ago was anopped up almost imme- diately.
EUROPEAN
countries are nisu
to looking forward the best Christmas in seven years. Although high prices will rufe, prospeela far of the
frst Christmas free from the
and
immediate shadow of war postwar chaos point toward brighter hearths, better toys and more in- viting food.
JUDICIOUS shoppers are every- message from London received this week says that the West End crowded out with early. Christmas shoppers. Every day, thousands women, many of them with children under school age, flock to the West End from the suburbs and the county towns in search of bargains. Cheap shoppers' trains, recently restored, disgorge thousands of shoppers in London every morning.
Reports from France and Italy, and ever occupied Germany, show that while the black market would Not in seven years has the West continue to benefit, the little man End seen such crowds. Not in seven would be able to obtain something years have the shops had such a dis-through the legitimate channels. play of gifts, useful and useless, novel or purely decorative, as they have for this Christmas.
Hundreds of restaurants in France
fast non-fusterity are now serving excellent meals at moderate prices, and the food situa- tion appears to be good for the half- days. There is also a growing im- provement in food stocks in Italy and Germany.
is
The British housewife
on a shopping spree, buying for Christmas for herself, for her house, for her friends. But most of all she is buy- ing for the children.
Allied troops in Italy and occupied Germany, according to one report, are planning to give parties for the children. It will be a bean tu
AMERICANS are also looking for parents whose savings and earnings ward to the biggest and merriest go to the black market to buy Christmas they have had since before necessities. The children will get the war. John L. Lewis was toys, candy, clothing, soap, etc. which probably thinking of Christmas will be useful also to their families.
and but it's a little hard on Father when he wants to demonstrate just how things were when he won his 1939-
45 Star.
CHRISTMAS
PUZZLE PIE
MAGIC
SQUARE
12
1. VENTURE
2. GIVEN SPACE
5. BACK
4. WORK FOR REWARD
WHEN CORRECTLY FILLED IN, THE SQUARE WILL READ THE SAME DOWN AS ACROSS
SUM IT UP.
WILL IN THE AMOUNT OF EACHTM
ITEM ON THIS BILL-
HENRY VIII
WHAT DID HE WEAR?.. NORTH AND SOUTH POLES] KIND OF PIG
LEATHER WORKER..
PLUM CAKE
PUZZLE
Just arrived for
SMOKING TOBACCOS
Punch Royal Coronation
Petit Coronation
Coronation
Manila Cigars
Alhambra Cigars
And Other Favouritos
Obtainable at
AYRETH' INERTSGEG
DAN SEBT SHISEW
CODE MESSAGE.
BE
CUR
-25
2 9.1
18
CAN YOU DECIPHER IT?;
FIND THE SPIDERS WAY TO THE ¿FLY - BY AN UNBROKEN LINE.
CAN THIS CAKE BE CUT DOWN BY ONE HALF. LEAVING IT SQUARE AND STILL MEASURING 8"
RE-ARRANGE THE LETTERS TO FIND A
SEASONABLE.
MESSAGE
COLD
HIGH AND 6" WIDE? WARM
(Solution on Next Page)
Christmas
ALTER 'COLD' TO
'WARM'
CHANGING
ONE LETTER
AT A
TIME
HAVANA CIGARS Dunhill's Royal Yacht My Mixture Standard Mixture Balkan Sorraine Mixture Parson Pleasure Barney's. Ideal
Punchbowle Hickory Old Castle
And Other Favourites
Central
Tabaqueria Filipina 22 Des Voeux Rd.
SERVICE:-
During the war period the niceties of the Mackintosh ser- vice were suspended, but the kernel of that service still re-
remains.
You will find this if you visit their modern store where every effort is being made to foster the goodwill steadily bullt up in the 30 pre-war years.
They still insist that materials be good, that their values be measured by. endurance and good workmanship and that each customer receives attention worthy of high quality men's wear.
MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
Men's Wear Specialists
Alexandra Building
Des Voeux Road.
BY APPOINTMENT
TO TIER LATE
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THE HOUSE OF DEWAR
1846 – 1946
A Century of steady Enterprise
has brought tremendous Growth
in public favour.
for
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