JAPAN
• Cherry Blossom lives in Japan. In this country, the children have fellow skin, shiny black hair and small* dark slanting eyes.. Both' boys and girls, wear long gown£. Their, favourite foods are,rice and law fish. Japanese children al-
ways . take off their shoes before going into the house. Both boy? and girls have great fun every year, on their special holidays. The Feast of the. Dolls is celebrated by the'girls early in May.'They dress all of. their dolls and give them a feast. ; Later in. May; the boys' festival is. given to honour the sons of the family. Big : fish made of paper, are hung in .frbnt :of all, houses—4a little fish for the baby boy and bigger ones for the older boy*' :-■;■.■■: .';.:.••....
"I have been cutting cocksfoot, and have three and a half pounds." —RUSSELL KEOWN, Waimate.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22016, 13 February 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)
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