326
By Ethel M. Kelley
MY DEAREST IS A LADY 327
By Miriam S. Clark
HOW MANY LUMPS? 327
WHEN MOTHER GOES AWAY 328
By Clara Odell Lyon
AN OLD SONG--"THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME!" 328
By Blanche Elizabeth Wade

#UNCLES AND AUNTS AND OTHER RELATIVES#

GRANDMOTHER'S MEMORIES 329
By Helen A. Byrom
GREAT-AUNT LUCY LEE 330
By Cora Walker Hayes
OUR VISITORS 334
By Isabel Lyndall
BEAUTIFUL GRANDMAMMA 338
THANKSGIVING DAY 340
By Lydia Maria Child
GRANDMA'S MINUET 340
AUNT JAN 341
By Norman Gale
AFTER TEA 342

#AMUSING ALPHABETS#

TINGLE, TANGLE TITMOUSE 343
AN ENGLISH ALPHABET 344
NONSENSE ALPHABET 346
PAST HISTORY 348
By Edward Lear
THE APPLE PIE 351
WHO'S WHO IN THE ZOO 352
By Carolyn Wells
A WAS AN ARCHER 357
A LITTLE FOLKS' ALPHABET 358
By Carolyn Wells
CHILD HEALTH ALPHABET 360
By Mrs. Frederick Peterson
HERE'S A, B, C, D 363
OUR STORIES 364

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#FATHER PLAYS AND MOTHER PLAYS#

[Illustration: Figs. 1 though 5 and So big!]

BABY'S TEN LITTLE LIVE PLAYTHINGS BY J. K. BARRY

These ten little live playthings can be held in every baby's hand, five
in one and five in the other and be the baby ever so poor yet he always
has these ten playthings because, you know, he brings them with him.

But all babies do not know how to play with them. They find out for
themselves a good many ways of playing with them but here are some of
the ways that a baby I used to know got amusement out of his.

The very first was the play called "Ta-ra-chese" (Ta-rar-cheese). It is
a Dutch word and there was a little song about it all in Dutch. This is
the way the baby I knew would play