Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1905 — Eight Millions For Toys. [ARTICLE]

Eight Millions For Toys.

The real amount of cash money paid out in the United States alone for toys that on Christmas morning gladden the hearts of American children is conservatively estimated at $*,000,000. This means about 00 cents apiece for the something like 18,000,000 of five to twelve year old children. The children of no other country on the globe have anything like so lavish an average amount of money expended for toys for them, not even the children of Germany—Germany, the home of toymaking and toy giving. Verily, indeed, the lot of the American child has been cast in the richest sort of clover when It comes to toy getting and not a few other things In the bargain.—Cincinnati Enquirer.