The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 34, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 December 1910 — Page 6

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ROM the rush hnd bustle of busy 1 American city streets, alive at this season of the year with Christmas shoppers, biack to. old Nuremberg, in Germany, where the Christmas spirit, lasts ithe year around, where Spnta Claus spends his working months for the Joy of the world’s; children — surely the step is not too great for the imagination nor its goal uninteresting as a study. Come out of your crowded streets, your people-packed stores, leave off for tlfe tlm® being your breathless chase after ithat troublesome “last present," and

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turn into the quiet winding streets, the irregular billy passages dovetailed by houses older than anything in the oldest parts of the United States. House rises above house full of a history as romantic as the proudest mansion of our city streets, and yet marked by a simplicity and single-hearted-Bess seldom present in things modern. It is here that the toys are made which you buy in your home across the sea. Here in the quietnessi of the unteodem, the playthings are invented and perfected for your restless, buoyant children. I You read “Made in Germany” with a skeptical tilt of the Byebrow, but the fact remains that by far the

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greater number of all th® toys • manufactured feome from Nuremberg. The ancient feudal city, around which cluster the grim traditions of the inquisition and the thrilling epic of the times of Charles V., has for Jour hundred years or more been the center of the children’s fairyland. It has been and is the nucleus of Christmas happiness for the youth of every place in the Occident, and its charm io the perpetual one of joyous creatijon whkjh delights in planning the amusement of little people. In the factories the}’ will tell you that 72,000,000 marks' ($18,000,000) w’orth of pleasure is •ent out from Nuremberg every year, and that |8,500,000 of this export is for the benefit of Young America.’ Only a few years ago all of the necessary labor for this immense production was done by hand, and much of the finishing and fi ne last touches are performed by special artists. Even now in the factories the old spirit of an almost consecrated enthusiasm .lives and is eviy dent In the interest of the village artisans for ! their craft. Not merely the 'reason of bread and butter goes toward the making of those marvelous walking dolls, those phenomenal speaking picture books, those thousand and one games that have called for all the Imaginative as well as practical genius of these honest German peasant folk. Rather has their unique industry called for and developed in them a romance, a sensitiveness pf perception which is remarkable. Follow the lurching, worn curves of the Al-brecht-Durerstrasse, and you come to one of the many homes of this Nuremberg spirit In a miniature red-roofed house, wedged in among a hundred squat brown huts, Ifve two old men—brothers- of efxty-flve and seventy—whose white heads are constantly bent over small clifcles of Wood —shaping, paring, carving, painting, i All day they sit there, sometimes all night, tolling over ,the delicately ornamented dolls’ dishes which perhaps you have bought, as a small Insignificant thing, just this afternoon for your •mall daughter’s tree. You looked at them carelessly; they were not especially original or attractive, and you shoved them into your bag with a half-hesitating acceptance, thinking that maybe they would please capricious Dorothy. How could you know that back tn the village of Always Christmas old hands had fashioned those trivial plates and pitchers, old eyes had strained with loving anxie-" over those fine traceries of columbine, and c hearts had warmed over those completed tribes with the lame thrill of the master painter over his best? But this was true. Indeed, nearly all of the simple wooden toys are constructed by hand, in lome humble volkshause which goes to make up the aggregate creative force of Santa Claus’ workshop. Take the tiny sets of soldiers, the doll’s chairs and tables, the painted wooden animals whose realism Is a delight to all children, actual or grown up. These are fashioned in homes, sometimes by the efforts of whole families, but most often by children themselves. Sixteen is the age limit for child labor in the factories, but no young person is prohibited from assisting his parents at home, provided he spends the required period of time at School. So that. many of those which give most happtaess to th® children of America have been made by th® children of Nuremberg.’ And If babies must work, what Work could on® find for them wmw appropriate mor® pleasurable than

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■ 1 this business of toymaking. They grow " up in the midst df it, all their hereditary ideas are colored by it, the history of the city speaks of it. Inside of half a dozen blocks you have trains, up-to-date ! hotels, electricity, qiotor cars, Parisian frocks, primitive carts drawn by hugs mastiffs, iunny tucked-away inns near the market place full of peasant womep In wide black silk aprons

and snowy white caps—crumbly fountains and a castle with a secret passage. All the elements of the fascinating past and the strangely progressive present within a stone’s throw of each other. The H realization of all that Nuremberg has been and has undergone comes to on® most vividly as one stands looking dpwn Into the Schloss well 650 I feet deep, where prisoners used to come to fetch water. Underground their passage led from the dungeons to this unlit circular pool, for state prisoners were never permitted to see the light, and the hollow splash of the water which the attendant drops into the well seems to re-echo, after an interminable half-minute, 4 the hopeless pilgrimage of those coufitless victims of medieval fanaticism. Such Is the potency of the ended. Whll® the vitality of the occurring emphasizes itself, not far off, in one jof the dozens of toy factories, whose, very majchinery whirs modernity, men, w’omen and children —that is, childfen over sixteen —are massed Into this building, all intent on * the one Idea, the creation of better and hewer and more wonderful toys for everyone’s children, In everyone’s country. It is seldom the Industrial planet can boast of a broader ambition than this of the craftsmen of Nuremberg. To firing the greatest possible amount of pleasure, legitimate and often educative pleasure, to growing active minds Is surely an alm worthy of the finest art In the world. It even seems as though the thought back of the toys should surround them with a deeper meaning as gifts this Christmastide; since the added gift—the biggest gift—lies in the patient interested Invention and accomplishment of which they are the exponent. As for the Inventors, strictly speaking, their reward seems infinitesimal according to our standards. The “teoSs” controls ideas as well as materials of output, and It is chiefly to his profit that new inventions in toyland redound. The man or woman who first thinks of or improves upon some plaything gets a very small per cent, of the income from it. > To our new world standards of commerce it seems strange that the originator should receive such scant recognition and that without grumbling. Very, very! few Nuremberg toymakers have ever grown rich over their ingeniousness. It is true that ideas as well as toys in Germany sell for double what they sold for eight years ago, even! On the other hand the price of living has gone up appreciably, and what would have seemed a large purchaise price then is only moderate now. The staff pf artists employed by the Nuremberg factory boss is in itself a not inconsiderable expense, and many a quiet charity is undertaken by these men who at horn® would be absorbed in getting rich. In th® ■bos ®t Frtta Muller ar® •

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various small kitchen gardens, carved and painted by a poor man and his sister after their regulai working hours, and bought by Mr. Muller at high rates as his pet philanthropy. In this shop, now 100 years old, are seen all of the most novel oi the toy-village playthings. The store was crowded with more children over thirty than under thir teen, and absorbed for hours over the clever and quaint attractions. The doll’s house of Nuremberg leaves nothing to be desired. Not only the usual rooms of a conventional menage are found in it, but -conservatories with miniature orchids, fountains and watering cans; school rooms with tiny desks, a schoolmaster, very stern, with goggles and ruler, and children in aprons and carrying slates, the latter a sixteenth of an inch big; fields of flowers for the back yard and a swing for the smallest doll. In all German art, of which toy maklsg is by * no means an insignificant department, perfection of detail has always been the salient feature. Every phase of home life is reproduced in microscopic form 1b German toyland, even down to the wee pairs of hand-knitted stockings and sweaters, the hob-nailed shoes and blue blouses which make up the wardrobe of the volks boy and girl. The tourist season is a second Christmas for Nuremberg people, and they sell as many playthings in the one period as the other. An interesting point brought to light by this fact is the early differentiation of the American and European individuality, which shows itself in choice of games and pastimes. They say in the shops that ( an American child is invariably fascinated over i the mechanical and complicated, that he finds in- j tense interest in mastering the technicalities even of playing, while the European child likes a simpler but brilliantly colored toy, cherishing often a curious sentiment for traditional objects such as typify old world conservatism. They are blessed with imagination, these village people, and they are not ashamed of showing their simplicity of spirit. Their soul® are bound up in the heritage of centuries. The tragedies of their city’s history wind about tho toys they make, breathing into the wood a characteristic vitality—the vitality that comes of centuries of striving, of centuries of patient achievement As you sit in a swirl of red ribbon and foamy paper, “doing up” your Christmas presents, remember that many of them have come from this quaint little Village of Always Christmas. It \ may add to your holiday happiness to know that no pleasure which the toys may bring can be greater than the pleasure of those who made them, and that no good will of yours can outdo the quiet sincerity of purpose with which the simple people of Nuremberg bate given their part toward thir season of the universal gift

NEW KIND OF APPLE PIE Use of Molasses as Sweetening Makes Delicious Desert—Nice Hot or Cold. Apple pie sweetened with molasses made as follows is delicious: Take a baking tin (ten by six) and about an Inch and a half deep. Line with pastry in which a little soda and cream of tartar have been Leave enough around the edge to turn up over the top crust to keep the juice in. Fill with quartered baldwin or greening apples, a pinch of allspice and a large pinch of nutmeg. Use the molasses according to the size of the tin. Enough to sweeten. Shave salt pork just as thin as possible and lay over the apples, nearly covering them. Make a few slits in the top crust, brush over with cold milk and bake very slowly three hours. Afternoon is the best time to bake, as the temperature is more even. When removed from the oven cover with a cloth to stew a little while. The juice will be thick like sirup if just a sprinkling of flour is used. *Nice hot or cold. A SENSIBLE KITCHEN TABLE Matter of Extreme Convenience “to the Hard-Worked Housewife When Cooking. This table should be placed on good casters, so it can be rolled easily to R-ny part of the kitchen, and put out s£ thq way when not needed. It can be wheeled to the dining room door, loaded with dishes, and then pushed to the sink, saving many steps in this way. The top may be covered with either zinc or heavy white enamel-cloth. The cloth, as it is more easily kept clean, is preferable. A vessel hanging from a hook at one side to catch parings of vegetables and fruit will be found a valuable addition. If this table is stationary, a small zinc tank may be set at orne end connected with a pipe leading down through the floor and outdoors, through which water can drain. The hole in the sink should be covered with a piece of perforated zinq in order to prevent the coarse pieces of vegetables and other things from clogging the drain-pipe. Rye and Indian Bread. One quart of rye meal or rye flour, 2 quarts of Indian meal scalded (by placing in a pan and pouring just enough bailing water over it, stirring constantly, with a spoon, to merely wet it, but not enough to make it into a batter), half a teacup molasses, two teaspoons salt, one of soda, one teacup of yeast or half yeast cake; make as stiff as can be stirred with a spoon, mixing "with warm water, and let rise all night, then put in large pan, smooth the top with the hand dipped in cold water; let it stand a short time and bak& sor 6 hours. If put in the open late in the day, let it remain jail night.. Graham may be used instead of rye and baked as above. In, the olden time it was placed in kettle, allowed to rise, then placed on the hearth before the fire with coals on top of lid and baked. Squash Pie Without Eggs. Use a dry squash (the hubbard or others of same quality). Cut in suitable pieces and cook in a steamer only just long enough to soften so it can be pressed through a sieve. Too long cooking will make it watery and spoil it for a pie. Now heat milk to the boiling point only and turn immediately on the strained squash—ilsing just enough to make a thick mixture —much thicker than when eggs are used. Add salt and sugar to taste; flavor with ginger, or pure extract of lemon is good for a change. In deep plates this pie will take an hour for baking. Remove from oven when it ceases to bubble in center. Oven should be quite hot. I prefer this way of making squash pie to any other. Totatoes With Cheese. Boil and mash six potatoes, add salt, bne tablespoonful butter and one-half cup hot milk. Form into cones, using an ice cream scoop, set in oven to ; keep warm. While potatoes are boilI Ing; make the sauce. Melt one table- ; spoonful butter in double boiler, stir dn tablespoonful flour, add one cup hot milk and salt to taste. When smooth add one cup finely chopped cheese and cook until cheese is melted. Send ootatoes to table on a hot platter and ’he sauce in a gravy boat Fine with steak or chops. To Clarify Honey. ■yphen honey is full of broken bits of comb and is unsightly for table use, place it in an oven just warm enough to melt the comb. When all has become Ijquld strain it at once through 3 piece of cheese cloth, which will retain the refuse but allow the honey and comb to pass through. When cold the comb will have formed a cake of wax on top, which may be taken oft saving the honey clear, clean and unhanged in taste, provided it was r ui.de too hot in the oven.

The Human Heart The heart is a wonderful double pump, through the action of which the blood stream is kept sweeping round and round through the body at the rate of seven > miles an hour, “Remember this, that our bodies will not stand the strain of over-work without good, pure blood any more than the engine oan run smoothly without oil.” After many years of study fa the active practice of medicine, Dr. R. V. Pierce found that when the stomach was out of order, the blood impure and there were symptoms of general breakdown, a tonic made of the glyceric extract of certain roots was the best corrective. This he called

Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Being made without alcohol, this “Medical Discovery ” helps the stomach to assimilate.the food, thereby curing dyspepsia. It is especially adapted to diseases attended with excessive tissue waste,, notably in convalescence from various fevers, for thin-blooded people and those who are always “ catching cold.” Dr. Pierce’s Medical Adviser is sent on receipt of 31 onecont stamps for the French cloth-bound book of |obß pages. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. . r

PERFUME FAVORED BY QUEENS Royal Family of England Remain Faithfub to "Ess Bouquet”—Czarina Is Fond of White Violet. Quean Mary is not a lover of pertnme. She u&es eau do cologne occasionally, but avoids scents as much *s possible. A west end chemist told lhe writer recently that neither is Queen Alexandra very fond of perfumes, although she remains faithful )o the “Ess Bouquet,” which has been in use by the royal family of England since 1822. This perfume is aomposed of amber mixed with the essences of roses, violets, jasmine, orange flowers and lavender. On the other hand the Czarina is passionately fond of perfume. Her apartments In the royal palace are laily sprayed with essences of lilac, jasmine, and white violet. Her Majesty’s favorite essence Is violet, and tor several weeks In the early spring hundreds of women and girls may be seen at Grasse gathering the blossoms from which the Czarina’s perfume is made. The finished product Is tested, bottle by bottle, at the St. Petersburg Academy of Chemistry before being sent to the Imperial store. ■ - The Queen Mother of Spain uses as perfume eau d’espagno, manufactured In Madrid, and also obtains a perfume for her toilet from Paris. Its composition Is a secret which the perfumer otlly half discloses. “It is made,” he says, “of rosewater, cocoaBUt oil, and—the rest is a mystery.” The young Queen of Holland Is a great believer In the virtues of eau 5e cologne; while “Carmen Sylvia,” Queen of Roumania, uses a special perfume made from the finest herbs, which she says “is tho best tonic for the skin she has yet discovered.” His Means. “You are charged with vagrancy, prisoner at the bar.” “What’s dat, judge?” “Vagrancy? Why, you have no visible means of support,” “Huh! Heah’s mah wife, judge; Mary, is you visible.” GIVE HER ANOTHER. I LIB - Fondpar —You say baby swallowed a spoon? Did it hurt her? Mrs. Fondpar—l’m afraid so; she hasn’t been able to stir since! EAGER TO WORK. Health Regained by Right Food. The average healthy man dr woman Is usually eager to be busy at some useful task or employment But let dyspepsia or indigestion get hold of one, and all endeavor becomes a burden. “A year ago, after recovering from an operation,” writes a Michigan lady, “my stomach and nerves began to give me much trouble. “At times my appetite was voracious, but when indulged, indigestion followed. Other times I had no appetite whatever. The food I took did not nourish me and I grew weaker than ever. “I lost Interest in everything and wanted to be alone. I had always had good nerves, but now the merest trifle would upset me and bring on a violent headache. Walking across the room was an effort and prescribed exercise was out of the question. “I had seen Grape-Nuts advertised, but did not believe what I read at the time. At last when it seemed as If I was literally starving, I bfegan to eat Grape-Nuts. “I had not been able to work for a year, but now after two months on Grape-Nuts I am eager to be at work again. My stomach gives me no trouble now, my nerves are steady as ever, and interest in life and ambition have come back with the return to health." Read “The Road to Wellvllle,” In pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the abeve letter? A »er ene nppeara from time to time. They Xre tme, aad full of humaa laterest.

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