A DOORYARD SHADED BY BAMBOOS 



Oriental bailies have played for fifty centuries in such cool, shaded, leaf-carpeted 

 spots as this, but to American children they are practically unknown. In additionto 

 the pleasure and fascination of such a grove, there is an education in the uses to which 

 the twigs, hollow stems, and leaf-sheaths can he put by children. (Fig. 4.) 



