What Toys will you give to your children?

The toy soldiers stay in their cardboard barracks
I just took a national interview. Yes, “sensational”, I repeat the word; and yet I am modest.
I interviewed Santa Claus. What a brave man. man Really, he doesn't age. He welcomed me, all smiles in his white bark.
Do you think it's cold!... he said to me, holding out his hand. And when I think that next month I will have to climb on the roofs. A tough job!... And even then the task is complicated, today, because in a good number of modern buildings. Recently we replaced the fireplaces with radiators. How do you want to slip the Toys in there!
Taking advantage of his resemblance to Tristan Bernard, Santa Claus became a comedian. But I immediately address the question that burns my lips:
-What are you going to offer this year to the children of France?
I don't have much news. Wait... Here are some new toys all the same... A superb car, a marvel of ineca-ism... do you recognize the brand?
Yes, Santa, but I don't deal with advertising.
But, me neither!... These are mass-produced cars... It doesn't work on its own and it doesn't avoid obstacles, like the big ones. here is an advanced scooter with tires and brakes. So the kids will no longer crush their grandparents. This is real progress... Here is another celluloid airplane, an electric locomotive of a new model, with small bulbs at the front and a. back... Here, admire this array of jazz bands. The banjo, the cymbals, the whistle, the revolver, nothing is missing.
The fun of the children, the tranquility of the parents...
- We! parents are trained in jazzbandastic noises. They have the generation that they inherit... Let's now move on to the section of scientific toys: T. S. F., cinema, complete factories...
Are the children interested?
-Especially the parents. They are the ones who play with this. The old people must have a little fun too.
- And, in the meantime, what are the children doing?
Ianis?
They speculate with billions of marks. Or they play with toy soldiers.
No, we don't play with toy soldiers anymore. Sign of the times, sir. The parents especially no longer want them and, when their heirs insist, they buy them Gauls or grenadiers from the First Empire, harmless soldiers in their eyes.
- And for the little girls?
- Always dolls, but felt dolls, that's what I'm mostly asked for. We damage less easily.
Santa Claus showed me one of these dolls last time. shout. She has short-cut hair. She laughs with all her teeth. - But is it Mistinguett?
- Mistinguett? repeats Santa Claus, surprised, I don't insist. The old man with the white beard doesn't know Mistinguett! If the little children who dream of the good old man knew this, how they would laugh at him!

JEAN DES FAUVETTES.