BRITISH MADE TOYS.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXVI, Issue 3454, 5 November 1915, Page 4

BRITISH MADE TOYS.

Although the legend ' 'made in Germany" has become so monotonously and' Painfully familiar to us, it is soothing to hear that the Germans have not had it entirely their own way with British children's toys. The best wooden horses and rocking horses have always j been made in Britain, while fur-covered animals have also been turned out from our factories in large quantities. As for the British made toy soldiers, field artillery etc., which are always co popular, no country can beat—or equal them, and. British firms have done, a large export trade in them to Prance and Germany ; so that to"day many German children are contentedly playing with regiments of Uhlans made in Britan. The manufacture of dolls offers great* scope for women workers. First of 'all the head has to be modelled, then a mould is taken of it and filled with papier mache. Next the two holes are made for the eyes, and another worker puts the eyes in -place, while yet another colours'the face. Numbers of others are busy fashioning tho body, arms, legs, hands and feet, while again others are making the tiny bellows which form the doll's squeak. .