CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Introductory | [7] |
| Little Folks | [9] |
| Boys and Girls | [29] |
| Grown-Ups | [102] |
| Special Fêtes | [128] |
| Methods of Choosing Partners | [184] |
| Tangles and Forfeits | [187] |
| In the Adirondacks | [204] |
| The Flower Test | [220] |
| Hours with the Poets | [235] |
| “Thank You!” | [239] |
| A Story within a Story | [244] |
| Orrin the Bootblack | [258] |
| Breakfast Table Decorations | [270] |
| How they Planted the Nasturtiums | [273] |
| A Garden Party | [276] |
| The King’s Children | [281] |
| For the Boys | [287] |
| I wish I were a General | [293] |
| A Hebrew Christian | [298] |
| The Baby’s Lesson | [305] |
| Parlor Fortune Telling | [308] |
| Church Courtesy | [314] |
| A Brave Boy | [317] |
INTRODUCTORY.
When children have passed beyond the rattle age, they reach out their hands for baa-lambs, woolly sheep, cows with bells, cats that meaw, and dogs that say bow-wow.
The next advance in amusement is to play with a toy that goes on wheels, and therefore for a half hour at a time, little folk will be content by drawing around the nursery such toys as trains of cars, horses with long tails, express wagons, etc., etc.; and then follows the period when pretty lady dolls must go out to drive in a pretty carriage accompanied by mistress baby, whose chubby hands push the doll’s carriage ahead, and nurse’s ever vigilant eyes keep watch, so that neither baby nor the baby’s doll, like the historic Jack and Jill, fall down and break their crown. And mechanical dollies are also in demand,—lady dolls that lift their veils, smile and bow; gentlemen dolls that are orchestrian leaders; boy dolls that can turn somersaults and effect other athletic feats. And about this time if nurse is careful to keep sharp eyes on the scissors, colored pictures may be cut out and pasted in scrapbooks, or paper dolls may be arrayed as their youthful mothers desire. Or bright pieces of silk may be sewed together, provided the thread is tied into the needle’s eye, so that it cannot be pulled out. Or wonderful castles may be built with packs of cards, or towers and steeples with building blocks. Noah’s ark will do great service, as will also tops that spin, and hoops that may be rolled or twirled, and drums that may be beat, and whistles and horns that may be blown.