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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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promising henceforth to be good children.
The mother was full of joy und heartily
forgave her seven sons. Then they
instantly became human handsome
youths, each as tall and fine-looking as
the other ; forever after living happily
together.
And the moral is, today as it was then :
there is no such happiness as comes to
children who try to please their parents.
JTapaiiene Children.
As soon as she can walk alone the little
Japanese girl has her doll tied on her
back in order that she may learn to carry
it steadily and carefully ; then when it be
comes necessary for her to carry her
baby brother or sister she may be trusted
to do it without danger to the baby. The
babies are always carried in this manner
on their mothers' or their older sisters
backs, and one often sees a little girl of
seven 'or eight playing at battledore or
skipping rope with a baby on her back
sleeping peacefully through all the noise.
Some one has called Japan "The Para
dise of Babies," and very appropriately,
too, for they swarm everywhere, even in
the most crowded thoroughfares. They
never seem in the way and are never ill
treated or rebuked, and they have such
grave, formal manners that they look
like little old men as they toddle about
n their flowing gowns and long sleeves.
They look so cunning that one often
longs to stop and caress them, but this
would be disastrous as their fear of
strangers is very great.
Japanese babies are called "Treasure
flowers," a very pretty and poetical idea
for the land where the people hang poems
in praise of the blossoms on the trees,
and they love to dress their treasure
flowers in the gayest of colors, particu
larly red, so that a crowd of children in
their holiday clothes is like a kaleido
scope of butterflies. Two days in the
year are especially set apart for the chil
drenMarch 3 for the girls and May 5
for the boys. The girls' feast is called
the festival of dolls, when each family
puts on its richest clothing and keeps
open house for a week, and numbers of
costly dolls that have been handed down
from generation to generation, with their
teapots and miniature tables and other
household furniture are displayed, and
food and gifts are placed before them.
On May 5, the gala time for the boys,
there are many children's parties and
picnics, and from every house in which
there are young boys, or where a boy has
been born during the year, a bamboo pole
is suspended from which hangs a paper
carp, the fish signifying success in sur
mounting life's difficulties.
The Japanese children play many of
the games that are played by American
children. Prisoner's base, and tag, and
fox and geese are quite as popular there
as they are with us, while the boys fly
kites and the girls blow soap bubbles just
as they do in this country. A favorite
amusement of the little Japanese girls is
hunting fireflies with circular fans, and
they also hunt large grasshoppers which
they catch with a rod and bird line.
They carry home these grasshoppers in
small bamboo cages and think it great
fun to hang them up and listen to the
grasshoppers chirping all day long.
How to Zflake a Peanut Frame.
Did you ever see a photograph frame
made of peanuts? Well, try making one
for yourselves. And if you do you will
not stop with one you will probably
make three or four for your own room as
well as some for your friends as little
gifts, for you will find them most unique
and artistic.
Have a carpenter make a thin pine-
wood frame to fit a cabinet or panel pho
tograph, building it with the proper
groove in the back to admit of fitting in
a glass and cardboard protection. Then
get a bag of peanuts and a pot of good
glue. With a small brush apply the glue
to the frame and lay on the peanuts in
the shells, of course taking pains to fit
them snugly together. As you place
them drop a little glue from the brush
between the nuts to hold them securely
together. After the frame is completely
covered with the peanuts let it lie on the
table till the glue is thoroughly hardened,
then with a clean brush go over it very
carefully with furniture varnish.
If the frame is hung against a panel of
dark red or green burlap the efl'ect is very
pleasing.
The Beat lEorae.
Some horses run away with boys,
Some of them try to kick,
And some go bumpety, bump, bump,
And throw a boy off quick.
And even when they are real nice
And don't hurt boys at all,
It's awful hard to rub them down
Because they are not small.
And so I've thought and thought and thought
And now my only aim
Is just to have a 6ee-saw horse,
Because it is so tame.
It does not bite, it does not prance,
It does not run away,
But like a kind, obedient beast
Goes up and down all day.
A Middle
Ten men's length,
Ten men's strength,
Ten men can't tear it,
But a baby can carry it.
(A rope.)
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WATER
Before You Start South
CALL ON
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ASSURES
HEALTH
IN
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CLIMATES.
IT IS
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TRAVELERS.
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Poland AVater is the most import- S
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coming the attacks on health which
always menace tourists.
To drink Poland Water always is
to be free from all dangers of lo
cality always.
If you have any difficulty obtain
ing Poland Water in your travels,
we would esteem the information.
HIRAM RICKER & SONS
POLAND SPRING, SOUTH POLAND, MAINE
J. C. Littlefield,
as TAILOR
12 Beacon Street,
BOSTON.
Everything needed in the
way of clothes by the well
dressed man:
RIDING BREECHES AND SUITS
SMART BUSINESS CLOTHES
Dress Suits a Specialty-
HOTEL GORDON
lGth and I Mtrtn,
Uashlngton, - D. C
Two squares from the White House, State
War and Navy Departments.
American plan, $3 to a day
WM. P. KGME
RICHMOND HOTEL
17 & H STREETS,
Washington, D. C
American Plan. $3.00 per day and upwards.
CLIFFORD M. LEWIS, Proprietor.
H. W. PRIEST, PROPRIETOR,
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Princess Anne Hotel,
Virginia. Beach, Vo.
Situated within 200 feet of the ocean waves. Splendid drives through the
pines and along the beach with the best quail and wild fowl shooting in Amer
ica upon its preserves. Write for booklets.
JAMES S. GROVES, Proprietor.
The Magnolia
PINEHURST, N.C
Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Excellent Table.
J. L. POTTLE.
Blooded Dogs For Sale,
Call or address, 6. Dan Morgan.
Pinehurst Kennels.
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FLORIST,
11 aleigii. nr. c.
Hose. Carnations. Violet. 1alm,
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ART NEEDLEWORK, NOYELTIES, ETC,
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