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THE NEXT CONTESTS.

Today we are publishing story
about the Boys and Girls of Japan. "
Well, we want the Juniors to condense
this story and send It in by June 20.
Here is a good way to shorten the
story for the contest: read it over
carefully and then sit down and write
the parts that you can remember. OF
course, you can add lots of things that
are not in the story. Remember, the
stories or essays must not contain
more than 300 words. To the success
full contestant we will send pretty
Japanese picture. We will also send a
nice cup and saucer or knife to the
Junior writing the best story on the
following subjects, the contest to close
June 20 also:
What Will Do When Am Grown
Up"
Experiences at Circus On Rainy
Day."
when Billy Goes After the Cow"
Bessie Feeding the Chickens"
"My Baby Brother"
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THE PICNIC.

Once there were two little girls who
lived across the road from each other,
Their names were Helen and Vera.
Now a family lived not far away from
them which had two little girls named
Minnie and Daisy and it was a very
poor family. For two or three days
Vera did not come over to see Helen,
so Helen went over to see what was
the matter. She saw Vera sitting on
the porch with the little girls close be-
side her. They were talking about
something. Helen did not go close to
the little girls, but called Vera and
said, Come here" Vera went to her
and said, What do you wantT Helen
said, ooh, what are you playing with
those awful poor girls for?" Vera said,
'They are nice girls and we are going
to have a little picnic and just US
three girls are going" Helen started
for home and Vera said, "You can go
with us If you want to-" Helen said,
81 do not want to go with those poor
girls" and she went ON home BY
this time it was time to start out to
the woods, where they were going to
have the picnic. Vera put some sand
witches and a few other little things
and then. she put four lemons in for
the lemonade They had very nice
time at the picnic. They got their
basket full of berries and when they
got home they saw Helen sitting on
steps and she said, II have. been very
unkind to you girls and want you to
forgive me-" After that the little girls
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JUNIOR STORIES.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE CHINESE.

The children have many amusements
which are undoubtedly the original
ones that we copied. Fishing by hand
is similar to our Blind Mans Buff. The
blind-folded leader holds out his
hand, palm down. The child caught
must be blind-folded, otherwise the
fisherman pays forfeit The fisher.
man says the tide is rising. which
makes catching them harder task.
clap their hands. Again the fisherman
will say, "The tide is low" Then the
children move as silently, which
makes catching the ma harder task.
The Chinese Empire is larger by one.
half than the United States and con.
tains about six times as many inhabi-
tants. The land is fertile and we'll
cultivated. Thousands have their
houses and gardens on RATS. The food
of Chinese is rice and fish. A young
child falling overheard is saved by a
gourd which Is on its back.
The leading exports are porcelain,
tea, silk and pottery. 1 think 1t would
be nice for the Juniors to send in q
nickle or dime to help to buy food
for the children in California.
will have to leave room for the
rest of the Juniors SO will close, hop
ing them much success. so goodbye
Yours truly,
Mabel Terry, aged 10 years.
Foster, Iowa.
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A LITTLE TALK.

Dear Juniors:
Since talking with you last week we
have received letter from San Fran
cisco acknowledging the box. A
copy Of the letter will be found in the
middle Of this page. We will also send
out by Monday little souvenir postal
card to each Of the Juniors contribut-
ing to the San Francisco box. On each
postal is printed in letters of gold
a copy Of the letter. The editor of the
Courier Junior did not get all the ad-
dresses correctly, so If any Of the San
Francisco Juniors fail to receive their
cards by Tuesday they will know that
we did not send the souvenir. Send
the editor of the Courier Junior word
and the cards will be mailed at once.
We especially desire to have the
names of the children from the Maxon
school near Abba, as no addresses
we're given in the box they sent. The
editor hopes that each San Francisco
Junior will write nice letter or story
to the junior when they receive their
postal cards. Indeed If they do not
the editor Of the Courier Junior will be
very sad.
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JUNIOR LETTERS.
. .
Nh
Ottumwa, 10

Ottumwa, Iowa.
Dear Editor:-I have a fowerbed. I
planted all of my seeds Saturday be.
fore last.
Mamma helped me make my flower
bed. She gave me some more seeds.
She gave me little rose bush and she
put it in the corner Of the bed.
My brothers, Guy and Roy, prepared
the ground.
We have some little chickens. My
papa put the smallest chickens out of
the brooder. He made another little
pen for them. Some of them thought
it was too cold and they stayed In the
brooder. guess they thought the
wind was chilly.
We have five little ducks also. They
are yellow. There Is just down on
them now. When the feathers come
they will be white.
Well, suppose I must stop. think
my letter is getting long. am little
girl nine years Of age. / live on Nc.
Pherson street
Your loving friend,
Blanche Kitto.
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we're very good friends and Helen was
never unkind to them again.
.Verna Foster, age 10.
Hedrick, Iowa.
A PICNIC.

On the last day of school when Miss
Tadlock was teacher we had picnic
under some trees out by the school
yard fence.
Our mothers and brothers and sisters
and friends all came and brought pies
and cakes and all kinds of good things
to eat and the table cloths.
Before we had our picnic we had a
program in the school house. Then
after we were through speaking and
singing we took our things out under
the trees and spread our table cloths
out and set our things on them.
After we were through eating our
teacher gave us, some candy, oragnes
and bananas. Then we all began to
gather up our dishes and things and
babe our teacher good bye and went
home.
think we had better time that last
day than we have ever had yet.
The name of our school is Hopewell.
Well, as my story Is getting long, III
bring it to close.
Your little friend,
Josie, Ward, age Z.
R. F. D. No. S, Hedriek, Iowa.
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quiry he was told that the cherry
trees were in bloom! "The sunshine
had declared IL to be holiday, and
all Japan, rich and poor, employer and
employed, had turned out to picnic in
the parks and feast their eyes upon
the cherry blossoms"
We are told that Japan is giving
over many of her festivals, especially
those for children; that she is in many
places beginning to introduce our own
complex forms of dress, house furnish
ings and modes Of living. There is
no doubt that Japan is rapidly adapt
ing herself to Western civilization.
Won't it be pity if, in SO doing, she
must lose much of the free, simple,
comfortable life which she has enjoyed
for centuries; if the pretty, graceful,
easy dresses must be replaced by I'M
comfortable, unbecoming ones; If the
simple blessings which this remark
able people have found wholly salts
flying should be supplanted by love
of money and an unsatisfactory ri.
valry for worldly possessions?
Emma Ellen Glasscup in Mothers
Magazine.
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them through the drums. When they
have succeeded showers of light, airy
paper toys suddenly fill the air. AS
the children run about In their ef-
forts to capture these, they make a
very pretty spectacle indeed.
Sand is delightful plaything, but
no American child would think of
making pictures Of it. The Japanese
child knows how to do this. Bags CT
brightly-colored sand are bought at
the toy shop, and the children hunt a
smooth bit of ground. A square of
white sand is carefully sifted through
the little fingers. Then a picture is
made by putting on blue, green, vel
low and SO forth. Nobody ever for.
gets how to play in Japan, no matter
how cid he may grow, and when faith.
er or grandfather puts his hand into
the bags and makes picture for the
little ones, it is often beautifully ar
t.stic.
Everyone has learned from pictures
low the little Japanese babies are
carried. The American Indian carries
her papoose much after the same fash.
ion. Even very little children may
be seen at play-children often as
young as six years-with baby broth
ers or sisters strapped upon their
backs. When girls desire to play lit
tie mothers, they often substitute a
big doll
Japanese children wear pretty, be-
coming garments, exactly like their
fathers and mothers. Since these
garments are often OF silk and are
therefore quite expensive, 1t is fortu-
rate that the styles do not change, as
they dc i'll America. Baby's dresses
are often planned with loving, artistic
care. If it's birthday is in April, the
little kiI1onos will have cherry bios.
CONS mon them, since april is the
Month Of the cherry blossom. If the
birthday is in May, the wistaria will
be selected. Each month las it's own
particular flower. They have the same
custom. which we have Of naming their
girls for flowers.
Many things in Japan ere called by
Eames which sound quaint in Ameri.
can ears, but they are always pleas
ing. The mother is called "The Hon.
orable Interior" Their own loved
land Is called "The Land Of the Morn
ing Mist" and "The Land Of the Ris.
ing Sun" When the boys go upon
stills they call 1t going upon "storks'
legs"
The Japanese boy delights in feats
of strength There is a system of train.
ing in Japan which is called jiu jitsu,
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Blackburn Warbler, Goldfinch, CHM
ney Swift, Horned Lark, Yellow billed
Sapsucker, Warbling Vireo. Wood
Pewee, Snow Bunting, Junco, King
Bird, Summer Tanager, White-front-
ed Goose, Turn Stone, Belted Piping,
Plover. Wild Turkey, cerulean War
bier, Yellow billed Tropic Bird Euro
pean King Fisher, vermilion Flycatch-
er, Lazuli Bunting Mountain Blue
bird, En~lish Sparrow. Aliens Hum
ming Bird, Green winged Teal, Black
Grouse Flamingo, Verdin, Bronzed
Grackle Ring-necked Pheasant, yell
wbreasted Chat, Crowned Pigeon,
Red-eyed Vireo. Fox Sparrow, Box
White. Passenger Pigeon, Short cared
Owl, Rose cockatoo, Mountain Part
ridge, Least Bittern, Bald Pate Duck,
Red bellied Wood Pecker, Sawwhet
Owl, Snowy Plover, Lesser Prairie
Hen, Black Duck, Wilson'S Petrel
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher American
Coot, Ivory-billed Woodpecker Ameri-
can Sparrow Hawk, Silver Pheasant.
Scaled Partridge, Ovenbird, Three-toed
Woodpecker, Bartramian Sand-Piper,
Nightingale, Roseate Spoonbill, Dick
Pheasant, Bay-breasted Warbler,
Black necked Silt, Pintail Duck, Dou-
Bile. Yellow Parrot, Magnolia Warbler.
Great Blue Heron, Brunnich's Murre,
Canada Goose Brown Creeper, Downy
Woodpecker, Brown Creeper, Old
Squaw Duck, White-faced Glossy Ibis,
Arkansas Kingbird, Wilson'S Snipe,
Prairie Hen, Loon, Least Sandpiper,
American Herring Gull, Red-shoulder-
bird Of Paradise, Tufted Peppin, Red
headed Duck, sharp-tailed Grouse,
American Golden Roller, Caspian
Fern Humming Birds. California vul-
ture, American Goldeye, Whipporwill,
Sandhill Crane, White Ibis, Cape May
Warbler Tufted Titmouse, Hooded
Mergansee, American Barn Owl, Mas
vile Warbler, Cedar Waxwing, Bona
parties Gull, Grinnel's' Water Thrush,
bier, Blue Winged Yellow Warbler,
Golden Winged Warbler incoming
Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler,
Black-neck Blue Warbler, Towhee,
Carolina Paroquet. Red-tailed Hawk.
Maryland Yellow-throat, Tyre Bird,
Cow Bird, Virginia Rail, Blue winged
Teal, Yellow Headed Black Bird, Kill
deer, Cinnamon Teal, Clapper Rail,
Peacock, Willow Ptarmigan, Stellars
Jay, Rudy Duck, American Bitten,
Scarlet Ibis. Massena Partridge, Ring
billed Duck. Westernblue Grosbeak,
Maybe, Red-brec sted Nutlach Pur-
pie Martin, Ring-necked Dove, Raven,
Wilson'S Thrush, Homing Pigeon, Yes
Ger Sparrow, American Redstart.
Western Willet, Ruffie- head, Ameri-
can-bred Grebe, Louisiana Tanager,
Long crested Jay. Fulvous Free
Duck, Sapsucker, White winged Cross
bill, Townsends Warbler, Knot, Hawk
Owl, Rough-legged Hawk. Short-bill-
ed Dowitcher, Great-tailed Grackle,
Hooded Warbler, Owl Parrot. Gray
Parrot, White Pelican, Marbled Muir
relet, Crested Curassow, Harlequin
Duck, Canada Grouse, Dovekie, Audu-
bon's Oriole, Grackle, Surf Scooter, Bull
locks Oriole, Sanderling, Norther
Shrike. AIMS Hummingbird, Ruffous
Hummingbird, White-necked Spar
row, Parula Warbler. Yellow bellied
Flycatcher, Olive Sided F1ycatcher,
Tree Sparrow, Black Throated Green
Warbler. Pine ,Grospeak, Field Spar
row, Carolina Wren.
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or "1nuscle-breaking, which gives
them a marvellous advantage over al
unframed opponent. A thoroughly
trained japanese boy would be. at f1f-
teen years, more than match for a
full-grown foreigner, because success
does not depend upon strength at all
but skill. BY long, long practice and
many years of study Of the relation
between the muscles and the nerves
of the body, they have learned that
some Of the muscles may be temper.
arily paralyzed by pressure upon GER
tain parts of the body. When two Jap
anese boys are testing their skill and
strength together, the one who is de.
feated generally rises with extended
hand and acknowledges his defeat with
smile and q handshake.
Japanese children have one OF two
traits which many American children
might initiate with profit. They are
taught from babyhood to show the
greatest respect for their parents. The
boy is courteous and polite to his
mother always, never forgetting to re-
spect her wishes even after he is mar
ried. The girl never thinks OF dis.
obeying the expressed wish Of her pa
rents. She understands that a woman's
chief charm is knowing how to serve
those about her deftly and quietly.
Japanese girls are good listeners. They
are taught to be cheerful, unselfish and
polite to everyone about them. How
very much that means! Tiny tots Of
three or four years learn how to hand
cup of tea gracefully. Everybody
in Japan Is scrupulously clean. Even
the little Japanese servant girl will
put two small brown hands down upon
the mating before you, with finger
nails more beautifully kept than many
and many of our American children
ever dream of keeping theirs, though
they may have nothing else to do but
keep themselves clean.
Out-of-door life is always simple and
health-giving. Everybody In Japan
lives out of doors as much as possible;
and the genuine love Of nature which
seems to fill the Japanese heart, great
and small, often takes the whole popu.
lation to the woods. Imagine the whole
population Of an American town going
off to the woods for whole day be.
cause the violets were in blossom! Yet
this Is what actually happens In ia.
pan. An English artist who was hay-
ing some work done In Toxic went
down to the shop one morning to see
how the work .was progressing. The
shop was empty! Wood-carvers, metal
-.--l.ars- everybody-gone. Upon In
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THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF JAPAN

Japan is surely a children's paradise.
In no country in the world are they
more welcome, and nowhere is child
Wife fuller Of simple, wholesome joys.
There is very little in the big, empty
houses for the babies to bump their
heads against or fall over, since there
are no chairs, tables or stools. 1t is
impossible for them to fall out Of bed,
for the bed is only number of COM
forts spread on the floor, and folded
away when not in use. Exquisite
cleanliness is Japanese characters
tic, so they may sit down upon the
beautiful mating, the polished stair
ways, the street even, without soiling
their dainty little kimonos.
Those streets, which are free from
| railways, are always full Of happy lit
tie ones. Nobody ever seems to find
them in the way, and they never come
to any harm, since the only horse to
be met is a pleasant-faced cody, and
he probably has babies Of his own.
A young Englishwoman who spent
many months in Japan says:
ri never heard a Japanese baby
cry"
Among the games of the children we
find some familiar ones. and many
which are delightfully."- new. They play
"hopscotch" much as we do, and en-
joy several kinds of ball. They play
pussy wants a corner" and game
something like "here we go round the
mulberry BUSH" They run races and
play hunt the slipper" and "hide-and-
seek" Shuttlecock and battledore" is
very popular game.
Dolls are carefully treasured, and
are often handed down for many gen
erations. Little girls look forward
with great anticipation to the day Of
| the Dolls Festival, when all the dolls
in the family are brought out and
made much Of. The favorites are
those which are dressed in imitation
of court robes
American children enjoy kite-fying,
but not as the little Japs do Think
how exciting it would be If some fine
day half the people in the town went
out to fly kites! On these days the
sky is full of wonderful dragons, fishes
and birds of every imaginable size,
shape and color. These beautiful toys
are made to move about in a very life
like manner. Children love to have
how the small Japs must enjoy seeing
fathers immense kite mounting the
breeze along with their own little
ones! Imagine, If you can, what fun
1t is to see lot Of these kites having
battle in the sky! Each one tries to
cut the silken anchor cord which his
opponent holds. When this happens
and the kite falls, the victor claims it
as a trophy.
AS the boys have great day when
they fly kites, so the girls under ten
have a very pretty outdoor festival.
Gay little mites in scarlet petticoats
and kimonos of rainbow hues stand IN
long rows upon the green, facing each
other. Bright paper drums are sus-
pended between them, and handful
of colored balls is tossed into the open
space. At a given signal the children
run for the balls and try fn throw
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Batavia, Iowa.

Dear Editor
AS 1 have never written letter to
the Courier Junior, thought would
write.
am girl fourteen years old. I
will be fifteen the twelfth of Novem-
her. I live on hundred and twenty
acre farm two miles and half north
west of Batavia.
1 go to Hazel Dell school, District
No. 6. There are fifteen pupils go to
school. am the only one that has
not missed day OF been tardy. My
teachers name is Miss Edith Bowles.
l think she is a good teacher. Our
school will be out the 18th of June.
When school Is out am going to
help mamma IN the garden and in the
honse.
am going to visit my aunt in
Abingdon and go to my uncfe's in the
Indian Territory.
l will close as ever,
Your friend,
Rena Wilson.
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If MAMA WERE A LITTLE GIRL,

Oh, Mama dear! wish you were
A little girl again,
To help me play with dolls and things,
And run and skip-and then
I'd like SO much if you could go
To school and sit with me;
know you'd be my bestest friend,
And oh, how proud I'd be!
But If you were little girl,
I wonder who would hold,
And hug me up, and tell me all
The stories you have told!
I s'pose I've wished thousand times
That you could just be small
But that would mean-oh, dear! know
1t wouldn't do at all!
Mrs. Frank A. Brock in Little Folks.
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Ottumwa. Iowa.
Dear Editor:

Dear EdltOr:
I am a little boy. 9 years old. and
go to the Hedrick school. My teach
er's name is Miss Vera Armstrong.
have two flower beds Of my own
which / planted, zenia.s. narigolds,
nasturtiums and sweet peas. 1 have
some pansies in a bed with my NAM
ma. I have planted goard seeds, but
they have not come up yet. I went to
beautiful flowers In the conservatory
of Lincoln park. They had palm
room with great tall palms. At the
roots they had little basins in which
gold fish were swimming about, and
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ELIZABETH REEFS.
JOHN BELGARD.
CLEO DULIE.
MAX Won SCHRADER
MADGE BARRETT.
EDNA LEWIS.
JENNIE RUPE.
MABEL REIFSNYDER.
NAOMI e. ROBERTS.
EDNA ALTMAN,
ALBERT KENDRICK ABBOTT.
EDNA LEWIS.
SMITHIE LEWIS,
DONALD BUNK.
HELEN WAINSCOTT.
LILLE GLATFELDER,
BLANCHE ZENTZ.
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ouSSOooAu4 o3oAA4S e~AAu esAoS AA0PSS s~A~S
the other juniors on the roll Of honor
will try again.
Dear Editor:
1 tried very hard to get these birds.
I have seen but few Of them, but hope
to see all Of them when | get larger. !
have been taking few tests in
school, They are the first ones l ever
had. marched with number OF
other children Decoration day to the
cemetery. But before we went to the
cemetery we went to the bridge and
threw over some flowers for the sailors
who lost their lives fighting. thought
it was nice to remember them.
| AS this Is getting long will close
for this time, hoping to win the sur.
prise prize if deserve it.
Your little friend,
Norma Daniels, age 8.
Eldon. Iowa.
The Birds.
Nonpareil, Respondent Trojan,
Mandarin Duck. Golden Pheasant,
Australian Parrakeet. Cock Of the
Rock, Red Bird of Paradise, Yellow
| throated Toucan, Red-rumped TanageI
Golden OrlOle, American due Ssty
Swallow tailed Indian Roller. Mexican
Mot Mot. King Parrot, American King
fisher, Blue Mountain Lory, Red-wing-
ed Black Bird, Red Bird, Blue Bird
Barn Swallow, Brown Trush, jap
an Pheasant, Bobolink. American
Crow, Flicker Black Fern, Meadow
Lark, Great Horned Owl. Rose-breast-
ed Grosbeak Canada Jay, Purple Gal
linule, Smiths Longspur, American
Red Crossbills, California Wood Peck
er, Pied Billed Grebe. Bohemian Wax
wing, Long billed Marsh Wren, Arizo-
ma Jay, Screech Owl, Orchard Oriole
/ Marsh Hawk, Scissor-tail F7ycatch-
er, Black capped Chickadee, Prothono.
tary Warbler, Indigo Bird, Nigh
Hawk Wood Thrush, Cat Bird. Vel.
low -throated Vireo, American Mock
ing Bird, Black-crowned Heron, Ring.
billed Gull, Loggerhead Shrike, Balt.
more Oriole, Snowy Owl, Scarlet Tana'
ger, Ruled Grouse, Creeping Warbler
American Eagle, Ring Plover. Mallare
Duck, American Avocet, Canvas bach
Duck. Wood Duck, Anhinga, Woo
Cock. White Winged Scooter, Snow
Heron, Osprey, Lora Rail, Kentucky
| Warbler, Red-breasted Merganser
Yellow Legs, Skylark, Wilson's Phal.
arope. Evening Grosbeak, Turkey Vul'
ture. CANDLES Partridge, Summer Vel
low Bird Hermit Thrush, Song Spar
row, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Ruby.
| throated Humming Bird, House Wren
Phoebe, Ruby crowned Ringlet, Morn.
lin: Dove, White-Ireasted Nutlach
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Batavia, Iowa
Dear Juniors:

Dtdr j UII1UTS.
I have written once to the Juniors.
but will try again. enjoy reading
the letters, and especially the stories
will send one Of my compositions
wrote about, "a Trip Around til
World on a Giraffe" My school
close in three weeks. My teacher
Miss Goldie Garrett. Well as my
ter is -etting long I will close.
Your friend,
Rubey Wilson.
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PRIZE WINNER.

The prize for the contest announced
May rs is awarded to Norma Daniels
of Eldon. This is Norma's second
prize and in looking over the roll of
honor she will find the figure 2 after
her name, denoting the number of
times she has been a prize winner.
This junior shows much care in the
preparation of her work, carrying out
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Abba, Iowa.

Dear EdltOr: a
This Is my first letter to the Courie
Junior. live on a farm about quar-
ter Of a mile north Of Hilton. have
two sisters, Marie and Leta They are
both younger than me. go to Sunday
school almost every Sunday. like
to go. I have flower garden at one
side Of the yard. It looks like it was
going to rain; but we need rain. I
like nothing better than flowers. Iilacs
are about the incest, they smell good.
I remain,
Maggie Spencer, age 10.
r. F. d. No. S.