PARIS WANTS TOYS.
M. Lepiue, Dfe ofevef of the Pari* police, is offering prices for design* of origins! and ingenious toys, intended to be told on the boulevards during the Christmas, and New Year holidays. No article .already known will he admitted totfencompetition (gays the ‘ Mail’s ’ correspondent), and the entrants mnst he all of French nationality. Friges in money, diploma*, and medals in gold, silver, and bropno will be awarded to those who display the greatest originality and ingenuity. The toys must be cheap, that is to say, they may range in price from a halfpenny to half a crown ; and they must be prepared with the object of selling on the streets at Christmas fnd the New Year as presents. The competing toys must be lodged with the authorities not later than November 20, and after examination by a jury, which is at- liberty to request the inventor to make a reproduction of the toy before them, the articles will be exhibited to the public for a fortnight, and then will be distributed among the children of certain Paris schools and dispensaries.
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Evening Star, Issue 11673, 4 February 1902, Page 7
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183PARIS WANTS TOYS. Evening Star, Issue 11673, 4 February 1902, Page 7
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