CHOICE OF TOYS.
A hundred and thirty-two boys and seventy-two girls in a: Parisian school wero invited to describo- their preferences in tho .way of toys. , Amongst the former thirtyone v-otod for a railway train; twenty-throo for tin soldiers, ten for stoam\ qngincs, nine for building bricks, -and eight ' each for toy type writers and incehanical horses. Forty girls—solid majority-—declared -without hesitation that a doll was superior to any other, implomdht of raoreation. Tho Snperdiild seoms, happily, a long way off. And as diabolo ' had only two boy and six girl supporters, tho,"Devil's Disciplo" may still bo called an infrequent object of the play ground.—"Schoolmaster,"
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 154, 24 March 1908, Page 3
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