- Young boy standing on the street corner
Young boy standing on the street corner - 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. - Waggles thought it was a new game
- Two boys and old lady
Two boys and old lady - The Winner
Boy with his foot on another boy who is lying face down on the ground - The Twins
Boy and Girl looking out at the night - Stepping down from the vase and crowding round Hugh's ed
Boy lying in bed dreaming - She plunged her hand deep down in her pocket and drew out a bright new nickel
- Seven little children
Three boys and four girls - September
September - Sammy didn't see the little man with twinkling eyes and queer clothes who entered the room
- Sad Little boy in nightgown
Sad Little boy in nightgown - S-s-s-t!
- 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. - Playing in the snow
- Pensive boy
Sad girl holding a bird - Our Pets
- Older boy doing a magic trick
- October
Kids under a tree - November
November - Mother breaking up fight among her four children
Mother breaking up fight among her four children - May
May - Mary Jane came back with her pail full of water
- March
March - Looking at the top
- Lady and boy discuss a kite
Lady and boy discuss a kite - Lady and boy
Lady and boy - Keep practising brother
Young girl listens to her brother practising on his tuba, even though he is not very good. - June
June - July
- January
January - Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill - 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. - I'll kiss it better
Girl about to kiss little boys hand after he hurt himself playing - How the snow did fly as he dug and scraped and shoveled
- Honor Bright faithfully fed all his pets
- 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. - Hens and Chickens
- Harry tending his mother
Young boy looking after his sick mother - Happy little boy in the rain
- Girl reading to boy
- Five children at the beach
Three girls, a boy and a baby at the beach - First fight over a girl
Boy punching another boy as a girl looks on - Feeding some rabbits
- February
February - Father and Son discussion
Father and Son discussion - Embraced his friend in delight
- Ella Flagg Young
Boy hoeing between the cabbages as a girls reads a book - Eight children
Eight children - December
December - Daydreaming
Boy daydreaming - Close on his heels
Boys in gym class - 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. - Children making a snowman
- Chief Hughie thought it would be fun to shoot at something that moved
- 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.” - 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. - 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. - Boys
Boys - Boy with hand in his pocket