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Show FAIRY TALES OF THE JAPS. Children Listen to Fables Much as Do Thslr Weatsrn Brethren. Japanrao children aro accustomed U lots of toys. They have thulr games and nnracry rhymes snloro. Their "Mother (ioone" Is ccniurlea older than ours; In fact. It la sMd that Jap mothers moth-ers ",cd to recite Its Jlncles lonn before be-fore Coltimlnia diacoered America. A fnvorlte hen) of the Jspaneae hook Is a man who rides on a fruit, tons: sko he was a poor rohher. but sifted with remarkable di Ucrlty aa a swordsman. swords-man. Once, he allocked a beautiful lady, who suddenly turned Into sn elderly Rentloman. Ilresklnit the rubber's rub-ber's sword Into half a dnren pieces, Juat as If It had been a dry twin, the old man announced that h was the Anrlent of sll From and counseled the youth to refialn Ip future from stealing from tho poor and to copttne his attentions exclusively to the wealthy. At Iho samo tlmo he placed himself him-self at the suriice of the young man, . who, noiint"d on tho frog's back, was able to leap across rivers and to trnvel at great spi ed on land, there superior r.icUltlca of trni aportutlim muklns It prarthnhle for him to mil uatirors and other svarlcloiis parsons , of their troasurcs. - 1 |