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Show Qllyak Cradle. The Ollyaks, who llvo on the Ambor river. In Siberia, have a curious cradle or cradle board. It Is made of two pieces of basawood; tho back and bottom ar fitted with pieces of matting mat-ting secured with thongs of leather. When Indoors It Is suspended from tho rafters, but In summer It Is attached at-tached to a slender sapling that sways with the gentlo motion of the breeze, thus literally rocking tho baby In tho tree top. In certain parts of rtiiRsIa a similar cradlo Is used, and tho ono that Peter tho Great was rocked In was mado ift material llko this, but It was round like a sieve, and had no hood. Philadelphia Telegraph. |