- Pensive boy
Sad girl holding a bird - Seven little children
Three boys and four girls - The Winner
Boy with his foot on another boy who is lying face down on the ground - Five children at the beach
Three girls, a boy and a baby at the beach - Heron-legs, or Stilts
After the heavy autumn rains have filled the roads with big puddles, it is great fun, this boy thinks, to walk about on stilts. His stilts are of bamboo wood, and he calls them "Heron-legs," after the long-legged snowy herons that strut about in the wet rice-fields. When he struts about on them, he wedges the upright between his big and second toe as if the stilt was like his shoes. He has a good view of his two friends who are wrestling, and probably making hideous noises like wild animals as they try to throw one another. - A Game of Snowball
The two little boys are playing at snowball. These lads enjoy a fall of snow, and still better than snowballing they like making a snowman with a charcoal ball for each eye and a streak of charcoal for his mouth. The shoes which they usually wear out of doors are better for a snowy day than your boots, for their feet do not sink into the snow, unless it is deep. These shoes are of wood, and make a boy seem to be about three inches taller than he really is. The shoe, you see, has not laces or buttons, but is kept on the foot by that thong which passes between the first and second toe. The thong is made of grass, and covered with strong paper, or with white or colored calico. The boy in the check dress wears his shoes without socks, but you see the other boy has socks on. - Boys' Concert—Flute, Drum, and Song
In the picture are two boys who are fond of music. One has a flute, which is made of bamboo wood. These flutes are easy to make, as bamboo wood grows hollow, with cross divisions at intervals. If you cut a piece with a division forming one end you need only make the outside holes in order to finish your flute. The child sitting down has a drum. His drum and the paper lanterns hanging up have painted on them an ornament which is also the crest of the house of "Arima." If these boys belong to this family they wear the same crest embroidered on the centre of the backs of their coats. - Ironclad Top Game
The tops the lads are playing with in this picture are not quite the same shape as our tops, but they spin very well. Some men are so clever at making spinning-tops run along strings, throwing them up into the air and catching them with a tobacco-pipe, that they earn a living by exhibiting their skill. Some of the tops are formed of short pieces of bamboo with a wooden peg put through them, and the hole cut in the side makes them have a fine hum as the air rushes in whilst they spin. - Playing with the Turtle
The man who sells the gold-fish, with fan-like tails as long as their bodies, has also turtles. These boys at last settle that of all the pretty things they have seen they would best like to spend their money on a young turtle. For their pet rabbits and mice died, but turtles, they say, are painted on fans and screens and boxes because turtles live for ten thousand years. - Boy and Girl encouraging their bird to come back
Boy and Girl looking out the window encouraging their bird to come back after escaping from its cage - Boy reading to two girls
- Eight children
Eight children - Mother breaking up fight among her four children
Mother breaking up fight among her four children - Ella Flagg Young
Boy hoeing between the cabbages as a girls reads a book - Boy and Girl
A mother bird is feeding her babies and a boy and a girl are looking at them. - Daydreaming
Boy daydreaming - Boy and Girl looking out the window
Boy and Girl looking out the window - Boy with bird
Boy holding a bowl with bird on it - Father and Son discussion
Father and Son discussion - Boy in bathtub with his clothes on
Wet little boy in bathtub - Lady and boy discuss a kite
Lady and boy discuss a kite - Sad Little boy in nightgown
Sad Little boy in nightgown - Boy eating from a large bowl
Boy eating from a large bowl - Boy with apple bank
Boy with apple bank - Boy with Christmas basket
Boy with Christmas basket - Boy with baskets
Boy in flat peaked cap at counter with two baskets - Keep practising brother
Young girl listens to her brother practising on his tuba, even though he is not very good. - Boy lying on the bed
Boy lying on the bed - I'll kiss it better
Girl about to kiss little boys hand after he hurt himself playing - With a head shelter and a sleeping bag he can keep dry and warm
Boy lying in a sleeping bag in the rain, without a tent. - A self-sustaining or balanced aquarium
three children looking at an aquarium Any transparent vessel capable of holding water, even a Mason jar will make an aquarium from which a great deal of pleasure may be derived. The old way of maintaining aquaria in good condition required a great deal of care and attention. The water had to be changed at least once a day if running water was not available, and altogether they were so much trouble that as a rule owners soon tired of them. Modern aquaria are totally different. By a proper combination of fish and growing plants we can almost duplicate the conditions of nature and strike a balance so that the water need never be changed except when it becomes foul or to clean the glass. - Young boy standing on the street corner
Young boy standing on the street corner - Lady and boy
Lady and boy - Harry tending his mother
Young boy looking after his sick mother - Boy walking in the countryside
Boy walking in the countryside - A Boy and his dog both looking sad
A Boy and his dog both looking sad - Boy and girl feeding a pony an apple
Boy and girl feeding a pony an apple - First fight over a girl
Boy punching another boy as a girl looks on - Boy and girl in affectionate hug
Boy and girl in affectionate hug - Boys’ Festival, Japan
The fifth day of the fifth month is the Boys’ Festival. Then they are selling bows and arrows and other toy weapons everywhere. Everywhere they hang out great paper fishes, shaped like carp, and brightly painted. These are hung to tall bamboo poles of which there is one set in front of every house where they have a boy in the family. One fish is hung for each boy, and it is a gay sight to see the hundreds of bright fish waving and tossing in the wind. The reason 92why the carp is represented is because it swims up the river against the current; so it is hoped “the sturdy boy, overcoming all obstacles, will make his way in the world and rise to fame and fortune.” - Chinese Boy choosing Toys
There are many curious customs regarding Chinese children. One takes place when a little boy is one year old. A great bamboo sieve, such as farmers use, is placed upon the table. Upon it are spread many articles—money-scales, shears, a measure, a mirror, a pencil, ink, paper, inkstone, books, the counting-board, objects of gold or silver, fruits, etc. The baby, all dressed in his best clothes, is then set in the midst of the objects, on the sieve. His parents and friends watch anxiously to see which of the articles he will grasp. They believe it will show what he will do when he is a man. If he takes the money-scales or the gold or silver, he will become a rich merchant; if he takes the book or pencil, he will be a great scholar, and so on. - Boy
Boy - Boys Tilting in Pastime
All persons below the `rank` of an esquire were excluded from the justs and the tournaments; but the celebration of these pastimes attracted the common mind in a very powerful manner, and led to the institution of sports, that bore at least some resemblance to them: tilting at the quintain was generally practised at a very early period, and justing upon the ice by the young Londoners. The early inclination to join in such kind of pastimes is strongly indicated by the two boys represented here: the place of the horse is supplied by a long switch, and that of a lance by another. The original delineation occurs in a beautiful MS. book of prayers, written in the fourteenth century. - Boy leading the charge
Boy leading the charge - Two boys and old lady
Two boys and old lady - Boys
Boys - Boy and Girl
Boy and Girl - Boy sleeping
Boy sleeping - September
September - April
April - August
August - December
December - February
February - January
January - July
- June
June - March
March - May
May - November
November - October
Kids under a tree