| Show THEIR KITES FIGHT Japan must be a nice country for bo sand s-and girlo to live In Thcv have lots of toys and great fun In playing with them What would you think if you saw n littli New York girl pitting on the sidewalk baking little cakes In a tiny stove with a real overt Youcl flush 1 That Is what little Miss Japan does and it seems putty proper Sh docs not even have to buy bur store but can rent It from a boy peddler and may keep it for a whole hour for a little money The toy peddler also furnishes her with a lump of sweet done and as there Is already a real flre in the stove she has only to male her dough Into little cakes and bake them and pftcrword eat them which is I not tho most unpleasant part of It nt all Often she has her dolls all about her for she usually has a very laige family They arc of all sires and kinds and the Jittli mother keeps them I very carefully for In Japan the doll holds n very important im-portant place Indeed there Is a special day March rd 1 set aside and called the least of Dolls 1htt Is a Joyful time I can tell you I for every little Japdneae sir And the I hays Well the boys have good times tooThe The klti Is what they like best and such kites ns they have American boys would open thels I eyes if i they could see them Not C only arc they of nil shapes and sizes but some actually llgthat Is I they make music like that of nn aeolian harp as they float 111 the air Olhcis look like animals but t the t oddest of all arc the lighting kites These have their strings soaked with glue Into which powdered lass has been dusted for a dl3tiiici > tf thirty feet from the kite When the glue hardons the strinG becomes be-comes as sharp an a tile The boyti 1 try lo pot their strings crossed while In the air I Then each pulls his kite this way and that until one of the strlngu cuts the other in two In nuch a on so the owner of the victorious victor-ious kite Is entitled to the one that has been cut |
