International studio (33.1907/1908(1908))

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‘’THE VALLEY OF DESOLATION, CAPE COLONY” BY HANS VOLCKER

hand-made. The promo-
ters of the industry do not
seek to compete with the
foreign toy. They want in
the first place to teach the
helpless how to help them-
selves, and to make the
teaching pay for itself.
There is, of course, no
question of profit-making;
all that is sought is to find
work which the workless
may take up if he will,
either at his own home or at
the workshop. S. J.


ERLIN.—In the
September ex-
hibition at
Schulte’s we

subscribed by about
twenty-five persons, and no
donation was greater than
^5. They obtained the
services of an instructor—
a retired joiner —• whose
hobby was model-boat-
building. They took a
room in an unoccupied part
of a warehouse in the town,
and about six workmen who
were out of employment
were allowed to attend at
the workshop and make
toys. Members of the
industry committee (or
council, as it is called) sent
designs to the instructor,
and toys were made in
accordance with those de-
signs, of which two groups
are shown in our illustra-
tions on the previous page.

Of course, the toys, as
toys, are far more expensive
than the usual class of toy
one is able to buy in any
shop in the street, but then
they are better articles
altogether. Everything is
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