The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-15


| In big and beautiful garden lived
kind father with his great. great
many little boys There must have
been almost fifty OF them SO, OF
course. when they were all planting.
tending, or picking flowers In one and
the same garden bed. there was bound
10 be endless confusion and trouble.
To prevent this tbs father divided his
boys Into sets of ten and To each
OF the four sets he gave a corner of
the garden while the fifth set had 4
little grassy knoll In it's center. and
all the little boys Immediately began
10 dig and spade and rake and hoe
and weed and reap. and do all manner
OF interesting things In their very
own particular garden-corner. plot.
while their busy father went back to
his affairs in his own large grove At
the other end of tho farm.
Now each one of these f1ve garden
1 plots Was entirely unlike any of tho
others: consequently each set of boys
not only played different games and
grew different crops, bat they became
very dissimilar in appearance. In one
corner the boys grew rice and tea
! and hemp. and were tanned to a Hight
yellow by the sun. their dark eyes
twers asiant. and. to save trouble, they
twisted their hair as Ii grew longer
land longer into their f?cctidlel'uycsh
land longer ffrtu qsteuss hanging down
their backs. In another eorner---there
where the sun beat down most fierce
! iy-the boys were burned almost
black. while the great heat contracted
and curied their short hair into kinks
The boys in the next corner were al
most. but not quite, as dark. though
their hair was straight and long.
while in the fourth corner the long.
coarse haired little fellows had skins
tanned to copper red.
The boys IA the middle Of the gar
den. where Is Was cool and shady.
kept their pink-ana- white skins and
soft and glossy brown and yellow hair:
but their eyes-though softly blue.
gray, OF prown--had become too weak
to look through the other boys chang
ed skins he know them for their
brothers go these fair-skinned lads
kept aloef atop of their own tree
covered green hill and looked down
upon the other little chaps hard at
twork IN The -four garden-corners until
/ they should be called tc TIE happy
harvest home in the busy fathers own
green grove at the other end OF the
\ In
When at last the call came. the boys
In the center garden plot being -AeaE-
est. reached their father first
Where are the rest OF voue" asked
he. and why did not You wait for the
othsrsf
because. dear father" answered
1.-THE fair-haired boys. these others are
HI III Lao L.
| brown. red. and yellow skins, and very
different hair from ours. Also. In
stead OF vlYet caps or straw hats they
wear their hair In pigtafts or stuck
ftii of feathers. So We are going to
play harvest-hume games BY our
selves
So they began their play fwhlla the
Kind father. his face grown still and
4 Ead, looked Ont with funE-dtstance
running and Eow-and-arrew target
lprAcfica; but somehow there WAS NO
snap to 1t until the father called the
red skinned laddies, who gleefully
Joined in and made things hum until
tevery one was tired
Then they all sat down and told
yarns; but there was little fun In thai
until the father invited the ienE-hair-
ed, brown skinned urchfns TO tell fatry
! story after fairy story.
IN the kite flying contest the Kites
would flop, and all the strings grew
tangled till the yellow complexioned
slant eyed chappies fetched . lot o.
bird, butterfly and dragon kites and
showed the others how.
When, ut the end of the happy time
the boys all stood up, slim and
straight, to sing before they should
part for the night. the grand old sons
~ until thu