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GERMANY LOST TOY MARKET' United Statei and Japan Now Supply Canaaa With Playthings Sha Does Not Prot'uec* The United States is now first in supplying.those toys needed to supple ment the output of Canadian factories. The additional quantity required by Canada to supply its own domestic trade amounted in the last year to $1, 000,000 worth* Before the war Ger many was the chief source of supply, but the United States now leads and Japan has likewise made a notable ad vance in its toy shipments to that market In 1913 American exports of toys to Canada amounted to .$273,138 and In the year ended March 31, 1920, the total was $1,136,372. Japan's trade grew from $18,738 to $277,946 in the same period, while there was only a small increase in toys sent from the United Kingdom. The toy and doll industry of Can ada, according to Vice?Consul Horace M. Sanford atX)ttawa, has made con , siderable advance compared with pre t war time, but imports were needed lo meet the domestic demand. At the present time some thirty-five Canadian toy factories are listed, although the census returns of 1918 reported only fifteen. The kinds of toys made there Include animals, autos, bails, billiard' games, boats, building blocks, car riages crokinole boards, croquet sets, dishes, dolls' furniture, games, garden sets, lawn swings, pool tables, tricycles and wheelbarrows, which are made of celluloid, ec&mel, iron, steel, tin, rub ber and wood. ; Last year Canada exported $139,052 | worth of dolls and toys, the United | States taking $5,635 worth and the United Kingdom $120,322. ONE FLAW IN BRIGHT IDEA ' Janitor Called On as "Dinner Substt tute" Might Object to Personal ? Inconvenience Involved. ' A young Indianapolis physician had been invited by a school teacher, to accompany her to a dinner party at which he was an absolute stranger. He accepted the invitation, but at the last minute had to .break It. "But you can take some other man and pass 'him off for me," he offered, generous ly. "No one there knows me, so It'll go all right." * The teacher hesitated. "But they know most of the men I know," she said. And then a sudden smile came over her face. "I might take our schopf janitor. He's new in the city, hat you could give him some of your clothes and it would probably pass." / "But how does he talk?" asked the doctor, a little kbit doubtful of the ftcheme now. "Oh, his talking Is all right," as sured the teacher, and smiled wider than ever again. ^'There's only one iktnM n/vf eilWA okAllf Uo /?hou'0 I I.lllljg 1 UifUVl OU1C QUUUl. lit. V??t " tobacco, and I wondered if he would do without for that long."?Indianapo lis News. 9 ; ; ? ' American Gobs a* Gondoliers. American gobs are learning how to become gondoliers, and ah American Bchool has for the first time included gondoliering as a regular course. In Venice the Knights of Columbus op erate a social service club on the banks of the Grand canal, and In con nection .with Jthe club the Knights of Columbus maintain a well-equipped school," run on the lines of the Knights of Columbus free night , schools in America. French, Italian, Arkish and other languages are taught In the school to the men of the Ameritan Mediterranean naval unit, as welt as navigation and Other tech nical courses. wow gonaouering nas Deen tuiuen, as the American sailors relish driving themselves and their Venetian friends around the gem of the Adriatic in gon dolas. Some of the sailors are hecora ing expert in handling the picturesque craft, Knights of Columbus Commis sioner Edward L. Hearn reports. j. Only Natural. The school principal had been busy all day selecting children from the various classes, to do some special work. She was very tired and also very much pre-occupied when the jani tor entered her office. In response to her mechnuical nod he began: "Miss M , that crossing out thei^e is dan gerous. If they don't' send us a traffic officer some of the children in this school are going to get killed." She had not really heard his speech, for he was always complaining, so she made no answer. And then he repeat ed his assertion with some emphasis, eliding: "They are going to get killed <int there?some of our children." She had caught the lest phrase, #mi mechanically, after^ier day of classi fying, said: "Then I had better pick out the ones I prefer for that." And the jaultor fled. ^Goat Disclosed Rich Mine, A mountain goat recently was re sponsible for the discovery of what is believed to be* one of the most valu able mines British Columbia, which had been hunted by prospectors for years, after rich float ore had been found. A. Finn was hunting mountain goats high above timber line. 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