The Archive · 1890

The Christmas Show At' the Stores

The Stores are giving their usual exhibition of good things for the benefit of them-aoives and of those who have money to spend.

The H. & H. Ca-operative Ca, has a large assortment of all kinds of articles for the season, so that from their immense stock it is difficult to make a selection, There are toys to suit the capacity of all purses, such as porcelain and metal tea-sets in boxes, stone and wooden blocks for embryo house-builders, metal switchbacks, magic lanterns, magnetic toys, musical and other tops, toy clocks, circular railroads and mechanical trains, bicycles and tricycles with bells, mouth accordions, rice-hulling machinery, small musical boxes, model yachts. with their crews, carpenters' fouls, designs in cardboard of birds and animals and many kinds of games, rubber animals, fire engines, street rollers, milk vans, guns, pistols and swords, sets of military accoutrements, skipping ropes, drums, trumpets and bugles, rocking horses, wood and iron hoops, masks of many kinds, mechanical animals and rocking horses. Of English, French and German dolls there is a variety in various materials, with dolls' houses, washstands and toilet sets, drawing oom end bed-room furniture, dining root and kitchen requisites, dolls' jewellery and work boxes, cases of ladies' and gentlemen's toilet requisites in leather, plush, cloth and other materials, some of the silver mounted, glove boxes, work baskets, fine hand-painted mirrors, plush and plain Saw Reports,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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