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ffV.THE CHOWAN HERALD .rh SECTION C Interesting Toy Display Featured At Area Museum Spinning tops, dolls, games and miniature fur nishings of years ago fill a comer of the Museum of the Albemarle gallery for the December exhibit: “Toys of Christmas Past.” Brightly painted giant building blocks have be come display cases to show off the toys once enjoyed by the grandparents and great grandparents of to day’s children. In a time filled with plastics, battery . operated f _ - M LT H I iil ? IH. -I n «|§|| J| I imi 1 'TOYS OF CHRISTMAS PAST" SPECIAL MUSEUM FEATURE A Open 9:30 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. W Jn!lf J't IIPY Until Christmas I *±J lyW OF EDENTON Check These Typical Specials From Our Health and Beauty Aids Department i 11 i mV* I i lj SjC J I $1.17j I 92t 4U9 A V' 1 Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, December 12, 1968. toys, and synthetic dolls, the visitor is carried back in time by the wood, tin, cloth, and china once used for toys. First seen are the dolls, artfully contriv ed of china, bisque, com position, and paper. Dress ed in her original blue and white lace dress of the 1840 s, the blue-eyed wax doll, “Libby” pirouettes above the others to main tain her rank as the oldest dated doll in the exhibit. One group of blocks has been arranged as a doll house. The kitchen boasts a small cast iron cook stove still containing the ashes of make-believe fires 60 years ago. Handmade wooden chairs and a nice ly carved china cupboard provide the setting for a doll’s tea party in the din ing room, while upstairs tiny, twin china dolls are being told a fairy story by a grandmother china doll. Toys for boys have not been omitted from this in viting display. One “build ing block” case is devoted to games, while another contains mechanical and cast iron banks. A boy doll, one purchased at the 190 V Jamestown Exposi tion, sits in a Saint Nich olas rocker amid tops, wag. ons, and a variety of tin horns. A realistic horse hide covered hobby horse stands sentry by a collec tion of noisy toys—drums, horns, whistles and toy telephones. SECTION C Many of the toys in the exhibit were usable. A little wooden ice cream freezer makes one cup of ice cream. A toy projec tor from the 1920’s still will show silent movies of Felix the Cat and The Key stone Cops. A catalog of the toys ex hibited is available to the visitor. Each item is num bered and the accompany ing booklet gives the in formation known on the toy and its source. Toys have been loaned for the exhibit by residents of Camden, Pasquotank and Perquimans counties, while donors to the growing mu seum toy collection repre sent the entire 10-county Albemarle area. Songs from an old mu sic box will play continu ously during this exhibi tion, which will be shown at the Museum of the Al bemarle until January 1. The museum is located on U. S. 17 south of Eliza beth City and is open from 10 to 5 Tuesday through Saturday and from 2 to 5 on Sunday. Time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid, the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. —Alfred Tennyson. TRY A HERALD CLASSIFIED ADI m * /if ■ PERSON! § SANTA |H! IN OUR STORE lili night I"* 7 to 9 * . ; 'j. j »,••• ■’ - ■ lafcr l ', ■ i ; .Oi ■-jOF • . - '&■' ' BRING THE KIDS TO SEE AND TALK TO SANTA! Free Candy Cane To Each Child
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