Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-09 | Page 12 | The Feast of Dolls Section

THE FEAST OF DOLLS every little boy or carl ought to lh in japan for the children in that country certainly do have the best kind ot tonies once a year there Is what they call 0 alna or feast of dolls every girl on that day puts on her loveliest kimono and bums and dresses cpr hair into a stiff bow to look like a black butterfly then she im awaits the cominar of CASTING LOTS AT THE CAKE PAR TT friends who with hershk and parent beet out the sacred dolla which have belonged to the family perhaps for centuries what dolls they emperors and impresses empresses em presses with their courts all gorgeously dressed carry um mirrors musical instruments and even sliver chopsticks chop sticks when the dolls have been arranged arr anred tho children squatting gracefully on the poor draw lots ortha honor of serving the emperor and empress dolla with aadi and sweet rice calces made la the form dolls knotty point beloff decided they play a charmane charm lne bame 0 mako in they entertain tha son ot heaven as the real emperor la called at d cartr at the streets are decorated with lanterns in the form of dolls jand everybody presenta everybody elc with a doll there are performing dolla atty ohp manner of our punch and judy aboya and all kind ot fun goes on the feast lasta three days and Is th event of the year or the little girls in the land ot the sun th c boy have their holiday on the ath hofmar when warlike toys are the order of th day when cloea a bailor take the room in a watch when he sleeps ehla