- A Boy and his dog both looking sad
A Boy and his dog both looking sad - Boy walking in the countryside
Boy walking in the countryside - Harry tending his mother
Young boy looking after his sick mother - Lady and boy
Lady and boy - Young boy standing on the street corner
Young boy standing on the street corner - 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. - 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. - I'll kiss it better
Girl about to kiss little boys hand after he hurt himself playing - Boy lying on the bed
Boy lying on the bed - Keep practising brother
Young girl listens to her brother practising on his tuba, even though he is not very good. - Boy with baskets
Boy in flat peaked cap at counter with two baskets - Boy with apple bank
Boy with apple bank - Boy with Christmas basket
Boy with Christmas basket - Boy eating from a large bowl
Boy eating from a large bowl - Sad Little boy in nightgown
Sad Little boy in nightgown - Boy in bathtub with his clothes on
Wet little boy in bathtub - Lady and boy discuss a kite
Lady and boy discuss a kite - Father and Son discussion
Father and Son discussion - Boy with bird
Boy holding a bowl with bird on it - Boy and Girl looking out the window
Boy and Girl looking out the window - Daydreaming
Boy daydreaming - Boy and Girl
A mother bird is feeding her babies and a boy and a girl are looking at them. - Ella Flagg Young
Boy hoeing between the cabbages as a girls reads a book - Mother breaking up fight among her four children
Mother breaking up fight among her four children - Eight children
Eight children - Boy reading to two girls
- 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 - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Five children at the beach
Three girls, a boy and a baby at the beach - The Winner
Boy with his foot on another boy who is lying face down on the ground - Seven little children
Three boys and four girls - Pensive boy
Sad girl holding a bird