{"id":8895,"date":"2006-03-28T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T20:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/03\/28\/toy-safety.html"},"modified":"2006-03-28T13:58:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T20:58:22","slug":"toy_safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/28\/toy_safety.html","title":{"rendered":"Toy safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as folks pooh-pooh the overzealous protectiveness of the Consumer Products Safety Commission, a glance back at a 19th Century Encyclopedia<\/a> indicates why such things came about:<\/p>\n

CHEMICAL TOYS<\/a>, which in the course of recent years have been brought prominently before the public, deserve a brief notice. ‘Pharaoh’s Serpents,’ which have been already described in the article SULPHOCYANOGEN, are highly poisonous, and dur\u00ading combustion evolve dangerous vapors. Larmes du Diable or ‘Crocodiles’ Tears,’ are formed of metallic sodium, burn with ex\u00adtreme violence if thrown into water, or even if moistened with water, or heated, and scatter particles of caustic alkali, which may inflict serious burns. ‘ Sunshine in Winter Evenings,’ ‘ Fiery Swords,’ &c. are formed of magnesium, and, like the pre\u00adceding, may cause serious burns. Pyroxylin, which is identical with gun-cotton, is the active agent in the various toys known as ‘Will-o’-the-wisp Paper,’ ‘Parlor Lightning,’ ‘Fireflies,’ &c. The use of these toys in teaching rudimentary chemistry to chil\u00addren and young persons is quite incommensurate with their danger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, buy some sodium metal for your children! Hours of fun, laughs, and crippling injuries!<\/p>\n

Remember, kids — don’t try this at home.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as folks pooh-pooh the overzealous protectiveness of the Consumer Products Safety Commission, a glance back at a 19th Century Encyclopedia indicates why such things came about: CHEMICAL TOYS,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50249,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/easy-to-pooh-pooh-the-rah-rah-of-alumni-weekend-but-singing-the-alma-mater-in-a-crowded-auditorium-gives-me-chills.html","url_meta":{"origin":8895,"position":0},"title":"Easy to pooh-pooh the rah-rah of Alumni Weekend, but singing the alma mater in a crowded auditorium gives me chills","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-May-15 5:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Easy to pooh-pooh the rah-rah of Alumni Weekend, but singing the alma mater in a crowded auditorium gives me chills #PomonaAW15 View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2248,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/19\/todays_obligato-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":8895,"position":1},"title":"Today’s Obligatory Cute Anecdote about the Kitten","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Jul-02 4:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Katherine's been able to shout \"Pooh\" (and \"Pooh-beyah!\") for a while, regarding the Milne character of that name. 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