#STORIES FOR LITTLE GIRLS#
A PAIR OF GLOVES 265 By H. G. Duryee A VERY LITTLE STORY OF A VERY LITTLE GIRL 268 By Alice E. Allen EDITH"S TEA PARTY 269 By Lois Walters REBECCA 271 By Eleanor Piatt DOROTHEA"S SCHOOL GIFTS 272 By Eunice Ward THE LOST MONEY 276 By Bolton Hall A DUTCH TREAT 277 By Amy B. Johnson THE JINGLE OF THE LITTLE j.a.p 283 By Isabel Eccleston Mackay THE SEVENTH BIRTHDAY OF THE LITTLE COUSIN FROM CONSTANTINOPLE 284 By Emma C. Dowd LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD 286 Retold from Grimm DOLLY"S DOCTOR 288 THUMBELINA 288 By Hans Christian Andersen THE FOX AND THE LITTLE RED HEN 294 THE SHOEMAKER AND THE LITTLE ELVES 294 By The Brothers Grimm THE GINGERBREAD BOY 296
#STORIES FOR LITTLE BOYS#
MISCHIEF 297 By Rosamond Upham WILLIE AND HIS DOG DIVER 299 By H. N. Powers GORDON"S TOY CASTLE ON THE HILL 300 By Everett Wilson HANS THE INNOCENT 302 Written and Ill.u.s.trated by M. I. Wood A REAL LITTLE BOY BLUE 304 By Caroline S. Allen TRAVELS OF A FOX 306 Adapted by Cecilia Farwell OEYVIND AND MARIT 308
#HAPPY DAYS#
WHAT THE CAT AND HEN DID 313 By Alice Ralston DOT"S BIRTHDAY CAKE 316 NED AND ROVER AND JACK 317 I HAD A LITTLE KITTEN 318 HOW POLLY HAD HER PICTURE TAKEN 319 By Everett Wilson IDLE BEN 321 THE HOLE IN THE CANNA-BED 321 By Isabel Gordon Curtis THE CONCEITED MOUSE 323 By Ella Foster Case
#RHYMES CONCERNING MOTHER#
A BOY"S MOTHER 325 By James Whitcomb Riley MOTHER 325 By Rose Fyleman THE GOODEST MOTHER 325 MOTHER"S WAY 326 By Carrie Williams WHO IS IT? 326 By Ethel M. Kelley MY DEAREST IS A LADY 327 By Miriam S. Clark HOW MANY LUMPS? 327 WHEN MOTHER GOES AWAY 328 By Clara Odell Lyon AN OLD SONG--"THERE"S NO PLACE LIKE HOME!" 328 By Blanche Elizabeth Wade
#UNCLES AND AUNTS AND OTHER RELATIVES#
GRANDMOTHER"S MEMORIES 329 By Helen A. Byrom GREAT-AUNT LUCY LEE 330 By Cora Walker Hayes OUR VISITORS 334 By Isabel Lyndall BEAUTIFUL GRANDMAMMA 338 THANKSGIVING DAY 340 By Lydia Maria Child GRANDMA"S MINUET 340 AUNT JAN 341 By Norman Gale AFTER TEA 342
#AMUSING ALPHABETS#
TINGLE, TANGLE t.i.tMOUSE 343 AN ENGLISH ALPHABET 344 NONSENSE ALPHABET 346 PAST HISTORY 348 By Edward Lear THE APPLE PIE 351 WHO"S WHO IN THE ZOO 352 By Carolyn Wells A WAS AN ARCHER 357 A LITTLE FOLKS" ALPHABET 358 By Carolyn Wells CHILD HEALTH ALPHABET 360 By Mrs. Frederick Peterson HERE"S A, B, C, D 363 OUR STORIES 364
#FATHER PLAYS AND MOTHER PLAYS#
[Ill.u.s.tration: Figs. 1 though 5 and So big!]
BABY"S TEN LITTLE LIVE PLAYTHINGS BY J. K. BARRY
These ten little live playthings can be held in every baby"s hand, five in one and five in the other and be the baby ever so poor yet he always has these ten playthings because, you know, he brings them with him.
But all babies do not know how to play with them. They find out for themselves a good many ways of playing with them but here are some of the ways that a baby I used to know got amus.e.m.e.nt out of his.
The very first was the play called "Ta-ra-chese" (Ta-rar-cheese). It is a Dutch word and there was a little song about it all in Dutch. This is the way the baby I knew would play it when he was a tiny little fellow.
His Mamma would hold her hand up and move it gently around this way (Fig. 1) singing "Ta-ra-chese, ta-ra-chese!" Baby would look and watch awhile, and presently his little hand would begin to move and five little playthings would begin the play--dear, sweet little chubby pink fingers--for I think you have guessed these are every baby"s playthings.
How glad Mamma is to find that her baby has learned his first lesson!
Then he must learn, "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake Baker"s man," (Fig. 2) and "How big is baby?" "_So Big!_"
And here are some other ways by which a little sister"s fingers may amuse the baby.
"This the church and this is the steeple, Open the gates--there are all the good people." (Fig. 3)
"Chimney sweep--Oho! oho! Chimney sweep!" (Fig. 4)
"Put your finger in the bird"s nest. The bird isn"t home." (Fig. 5)
And then when the little finger is poked in, a sly pinch is given by a hidden thumb and baby is told, "The birdie has just come home!" But you mustn"t pinch hard, of course, just enough to make baby laugh at being caught.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Figs. 6 though 11.]
And then there is the play of "Two men sawing wood--one little boy picking up chips." (Fig. 6) The two finger men are moved up and down and the little boy finger works busily.
Everybody knows the rhyming finger-play:
"Here"s my Father"s knives and forks, (Fig. 7) "Here"s my Mother"s table, (Fig. 8) "Here"s my Sister"s looking-gla.s.s, (Fig. 9) "And here"s the baby"s cradle." (Fig. 10)
Another play is a little act in which three persons are supposed to take part, and it has come down from the old times of long ago.
The middle finger is the Friar. Those on each side of him touch each other and make the door, the little finger is the Lady and the thumb is the Page. (Fig. 11)
The Friar knocks at the door.
_Friar._ "Knock, Knock, Knock!"
_Page._ "Somebody knocks at the door! Somebody knocks at the door!"
_Lady._ "Who is it? Who is it?"
_Page._ (Going to door) "Who is it? Who is it?"
_Friar._ "A Friar, a Friar."
_Page._ "A Friar, Ma"am, a Friar, Ma"am."
_Lady._ "What does he want? What does he want?"
_Page._ "What do you want, Sir? What do you want, Sir?"
_Friar._ "I want to come in. I want to come in."
_Page._ "He wants to come in, Ma"am. He wants to come in."