1 PAGE g777UST OUT1-OOK gMF 8 FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS CP Q :vx-:oh-:-:::-::x:-:-: 1 I '""""S THE JEFFERSON RICHMOND, VA. With the addition of 300 bed rooms, cafe, private dining rooms, etc., this far-famed Hotel Is more magnificent, attractive and secure, than ever before. Room single and en suite, with and without private baths Long distance phones in every room. The many points of historic ii terest in, and around the City, makes Richmond a very desir able stop-over place for tourists, where they can enjoy the equable climate, thus avoiding extreme changes of temperature. ' JJcaspice Joyce Jftgrauing (6 THE MT. KINEO HOUSE KINEO, Moosehead Lake, MAINE. Nature's Ideal Summer Wilderness, Lake and Mountain Resort for Location, Climate, Scenery and Recreation. Mend for Booklets, C A. JUDKINS, - Manaeor-. HOTEL WOODWARD Broadway at 55th Street, New York Combines every convenience, luxury and home comfoit and commends itself to people of refined tastes wishing to be within easy access of the social, shopping and dramatic centeis. T. D. GREEN, Manager. Choice Cut Flowers Roses, Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Vio lets and other fea'onable Flowers for all occasions. Kloral Designs at short notice. Palms, Ferns and other Pot Plants for houso culture. "We received First Premium on Cut Flowers, Palms and Ferns at last Stale Fair. Our Chrysanthemums are now at their best. H. STEINMETZ, Florist Raleigh, N. C. ....... ...TIIE.... - ST. JAMES - Eu-opean Plan Centrally located WASHINGTON, I). C. HOUSE FOR RENT. At Jackson Springs, N. C, within 11 miles of Pinehurst, on the Capital Automobile Route, a house with 10 rooms and bath, hot and cold water, and either lirt-place or stove ineachroom. Furnished throughout. Near station. Rent reasonable. Apply to M A Bennett or Mrs. Mary E. Baxter, Jackson 5 0ru8, A' D shePPard, Pinehurst, North Carolina. BIG SOUTHERN PLANTATION SiAL?3, adiToi,nlnfir corporate limits of healthful state University town. Scenery splendid, Society good, Educational advan tages excellent. City water, two baths, easy access to electric lights. R. L. STROWD. Chapel Hill, N. C. Your Summer- Tour Will be incomplete, without r.x,. ... a run through picturesque LjIXVILLE NOTCH You will find there the' best service and homelike comfort and a well equipped garage. ' ,IXVI"E otci.,THE BALSAMS, ii r- inter address, 1800 Lehigh Ave., Write for inte, etiD .Philadelphia, Pa. illustrated booklet." What Ifew Tfar' ly Jlroug-ht to a Good Little Chln' Hoy. UNG ! tung !" cried Little Ling Lee, clapping his fat hands together in joy. He meant "hur rah," and that was his way of sayjng.it, for Ling Lee was a Chinese baby, He lived in a fashionable part of Mott street, over a Chinese restaurant, which was kept by his father, an aristocratic merchant of Canton, China. Ling Lee could not remember anv country except America, for he was only six months old when he was brought, live years before, in the hold of a big steamship over the water. So long as he could recall he had lived over the restaurant, where his mother cooked the chop suey and his father, with his pig tail sweeping the floor, bowed with it before his guests. Wh n he grew up he hoped that he, too, would be allowed to march proudly between the tables, bal ancing his pots of tea and dishes of hot chop suey on the tips of his fingers. "Tung, tung!" he cried again, as he looked out of the window at the window of the house opposite. Mott street was so narrow that the houses seemed almost to touch one another, and sitting at the window looking at him was a beautiful little Chinese girl about his own age. She had the prettiest, black, slanting eyes that he had ever seen ; her skin was as smooth and yellow as a lemon, and her black hair hung in a thick pigtail over her dress, which was of a brilliant red, embroidered with blue. Tong, long !" cried little Teng Moy in answer to his greeting. Teng Moy, you must understand, means preserved peach, and this name had been given to the little girl by her proud father. He was a mandarin of high rank, and was allowed by the Chinese Empress to wear a purple button on the top of his hat. He hoped before he died to become a real tangerine, in which event he would be privileged to wear an orange button. Little Ling Lee bowed gravely across the street and stroked his pigtail four times, which means in China "may you enjoy excellent prosperity and remain as DeautUul as the moon and nearly as beautiful as the sun." Thereupon the little girl blushed until she became a rich orange color, and disappeared be hind a screen on which was painted a huge yellow dragon. This dragon had beady black eyes which opened and shut. and when they were open the little eirl could stand behind the screen and look through them at the little bov in the nouse opposite; but he did not know this, and when she disappeared he felt quite disconsolate. One morning, for the first time in a week Ling Lee did not see little Ten- Moy at the opposite window. In vain w clapped his hands and crowed and cried, iung, tung," . hoping to hear her answering "long lonir.'' Everything was silent, and the big yellow dragon on the screen did nnt. mw. iv, v "v vcii ins eyes.. Two tears trickled out of Ling Lee's eyelids. 'Teng Moy bing bong chung," said his father that afternoon, balancing a dish of chop suey upon the point of a chopstick. What he meant to say was "Teng Moy is very sick today," but he was compelled to say it in Chinese, which was the only language he knew. " l'eng Moy is very sick today; bimeby doctor give heap physic." uBing bong chung," twittered the sparrows under the eaves; "Teng Moy bing bong chung." Ling Lee could not help crying when he heard those melan choly words. Jt was nearing New Year's Day, and preparations were being made in all the. Chinese quarter for a happy celebration. Big paper lanterns had been hung across the streets, and sticks of incense were alreadyto light in front of the idols in the josshouses. The Chinese ladies were busy sewing new embroidery upon their trousers, and tho gentlemen were having their shirts cleaned and pressed and were combing out their pigtails. But nothing pleased little Ling Lee, for everything even the wheels of the elevated street trains seemed to repeat those melancholy words "bing bong chung." One morning Ling Lee's father looked very grave. "Teng Moy heap big sick ; think go die," he said, balancing three yards of Chinese spaghetti on a piece of ginger. Oh! how unhappy little Ling Lee felt then. He crept to the door and looked across the street. A big proces sion was marching down, headed by three men beating a brass drum and clanging cymbals. A number of others followed, all making a dreadful noise with castanets and other instruments. In the center of the procession marched an old gentleman with a long, white inouttache, a green pigtail, spectacles and a black velvet button on the top of his head. He was the doctor, and over head was a demon's face cut out of a big pumpkin on the top of a pole. This was to scare away the devils who had caught hold of little Teng Moy, and the beating of the drum and symbals was to frighten them out of her and all the way back to China. " Teng Moy bing bong chung," said the wifce doctor, standing at her bedside and noting how she tossed from side to side feverishly in her sleep. It was all he could say, poor old gentleman, be cause he did not know himself what was the matter with her. So he lifted his spectacles from his nose and wiped them clean and then he gave an order, and im mediately the instiuments set up such a racket that little Teng Moy started up with a scream, " Play, play ! Keep it up ! " shouted the old doctor, leaping about the room until he tripped over the end of his pig tail and fell down. What capers he cut and how queer he looked, lumping be tween the cymbals and over the big drum. The noise was frightful, and the louder Teng Moy screamed the louder they beat the instruments. You see all

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