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Show FLY KITES ON FEAST-DAY Japanese Perform Clever Maneuvers In the Air With Their Monstrous Mons-trous Rival Filers." In Japan there Is en annual reast day ror boys, when each house haying male children hangs out strings ot paper pa-per carp, which Inflated by the breeze become lifelike monster fish. "It was on this feast day," says n writer In the Wide World, "that wo left Yokohama for Kamakura, onco the eastern capital of Japan, now merely a quiet little seaside village. "As It was such an lmiiortaiit occasion, occa-sion, the whole world made holiday, somo families hurried to tho seashore to fly their enormous humming kites, from which the parents npbeured to derive quite as much enjoyment as the children. The loud hum emitted by the souring kite Is caused by a piece of thin bamboo, which Is stretched tightly tight-ly across from shoulder to shoulder. "This taut bamboo filament not only acts us an aeollnn harp but bends tbe whole kite, so (hat Its surface Is concave con-cave Instead of being, us In our kites, o plane. Tho noise when some throe-score throe-score or so of these monsters are In the air at the same time Is deafening. "The Japanese kite has no tall, but Is furnished with numerous long streamers. Clreat competitions are held by the owners of the kites, and occasionally a mimic battle will be fought In the air, tbe rival factions en-deuorlng en-deuorlng by means or powdered glass, which has been previously worked In-to In-to n definite length of the kite strings, to saw through u rival's string, and so bring tho vanquished kite tumbling Is-uomtnlouRty Is-uomtnlouRty to the ground." Mrs. B. (Sets a Shot Home. "I uever Judge a woman by be: clothes," observed llllklus "No," put In Mrs II. sarcastically, "a man 'who gels to as many burlesque sliowr as you do wouldn't" Milwaukee Nows. |