Here a group of men and women are enjoying a cold luncheon; there a small party of Memons are discussing affairs over their 'bidis' while on all sides are children playing with the paper toys, rattles and tin wheels which the hawkers offer at such seasons of merry-making.

Please pick up your toys and get off of my ranch.

One player holds in his hand a number of these toys, and demands of another whether that number is even or odd.

The boy and man an individual makes, Yet sigh'st thou now for apples and for cakes? Go, like the Indian, in another life Expect thy dog, thy bottle, and thy wife, As well as dream such trifles are assigned, As toys and empires, for a god-like mind.

There were various kinds of toys scattered about and a swing and bar, such as boys love to twist about on, in two different corners.

Whenever the boys came to her for money to get such things as candy and ice cream, expensive toys, and other things that boys often crave, she asked them why they wanted them.

He was always exchanging toys and books with his schoolmates, and they never got the better of him in a bargain.

As if to show that it was the disproportion of the sizes which unfitted him to notice the lady, the larger he grows the bigger he wants his toys, till, when his wish reaches to life-sizes, good-by to the trumpery, and onward with realities.

Choose his toys wisely and then leave him alone with them.

" One of the things we grown-ups do for children that has been rather severely criticized is the lavishing upon them of toys,intricate and costly toys.

" One of the things we grown-ups do for children that has been rather severely criticized is the lavishing upon them of toys,intricate and costly toys.

"What, as a child, I used to pretend the toys I had, were, the toys my children have now, are!"

"What, as a child, I used to pretend the toys I had, were, the toys my children have now, are!"

" The camera would seem to be typical of the toys we give to the children of to-day; they can do something with it,something real.

The alarmists warn us that what we do for the children in the direction of costly and complicated toys may, even while helping them do something for themselves, mar their priceless simplicity.

Before I could answer it the door opened, and a little girl, her arms full of toys, softly entered.

Without waiting for a reply, she carefully deposited her toys on the nurse's cot near her.

I added, indicating the toys on the cot.

" My visitor at once collected her toys and prepared to go.

An Italian woman once asked me, "The American childrenwhat do they employ as toys?" I could only reply, "Almost anything; almost everything!" When we are furthest from seeing the toy possibilities of a thing, they see it.

"Did they come from the Egypt in the poem "'Where among the desert sands Some deserted city stands, There I'll come when I'm a man With a camel caravan; And in a corner find the toys Of the old Egyptian boys'?" He spent a happy hour playing with the libation cup and the ushabti trophies of one of the most remarkable explorations of our era.

He knew concerning them all he needed to knowthat they could be "employed as toys."

I brought out various toys, left over from my childhood, for her amusementa doll, with the trunk that still contained her wardrobe; an autograph album, with "verses" and sketches in it; and a "joining map," such as the brother of Rosamond of the Purple Jar owned.

" I offered her the freedom of the writing-paper drawer; and, while I looked on, she folded and refolded with a practiced hand, until the table beside us was covered, not only with boats compared with which mine was as a dory to an ocean liner, but also with a score of other pretty and somewhat intricate paper toys.

The beasts stood as still, too, as the toys, because they were tethered or hobbled each to his own half-circle of clover, and moved forward when that was eaten.