. Christian herald and signs of our times . ced to be realized. Sim-ple houses of the old corn-cob style can bebuilt, the zigzag Virginian rail-fence canbe exactly reproduced, and many otherforms outlined or copied. Among theseare houses, bird-houses, churches, fences,ladders, doors, windows, furniture, clocks,stars, uheeK. boats, cars, and almost anyOther desired objects. The thoughts till-ing the childs mind, whether they be ofthe coming holiday, the new baby or thehome kitchen, can be expressed with thismaterial, and a child will play this quietway .1 Long time, making something tormamm
. Christian herald and signs of our times . ced to be realized. Sim-ple houses of the old corn-cob style can bebuilt, the zigzag Virginian rail-fence canbe exactly reproduced, and many otherforms outlined or copied. Among theseare houses, bird-houses, churches, fences,ladders, doors, windows, furniture, clocks,stars, uheeK. boats, cars, and almost anyOther desired objects. The thoughts till-ing the childs mind, whether they be ofthe coming holiday, the new baby or thehome kitchen, can be expressed with thismaterial, and a child will play this quietway .1 Long time, making something tormamma to guess. Oh. let us make thebig Thanksgiving table at grandmas!the child will say. If you add. Can youmake chairs for them all? Make the1 hurt Ii where grandpa goes ! Now try theStove where they will cook the turkey!Make what you want for Christmas, andsee it I can guess what you make. in allprobability the child will be happily occu-pied tin .1 long time. Try the blocks foryour little ones and you will give themman) pleasant hours. |4i. Housewives of Holland HOLLAND, probably more than moscountries in Northern Europe, ha:j Ipreserv ed its old - time custom:and traditions. The passing years brim,but few changes to the quaint old citie: (and towns of the little kingdom. Churches , market-places, canals—all the ok |land-marks remain just as they have stooi Ifor many decades. Even the windmill tseem to flap their great arms with a motioi }that disdains the adventitious aid of modem mechanism, and the canal-boats arveritable arks of antiquity. Our photcgraph of the market-square in Amsterdanthough recently taken, might almost pasfor a scene of the middle Dutch period, ato architecture, costumes and general suiroundings. All the Rhine steamers lanat he wharf in Dordrecht, near Anistedam, the capital. The market-place theris a small open square beneath which flowthe canal. It is really the floor of a stonbridge. The stalls there are loaded wifish. meat, garden produce a
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