BLOCK GAMES—KINDERGARTEN
"finds it very difficult to thread her needle by the pale light of the moon," which fact, few, I think, would question.
In one of the pictures "a beautiful maiden, in the bright moonlight, came beneath the trees." This is evidently
| contrary to Chinese | 
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ideas of propriety, |
| for the Classic for | girls tells us that a | |
| maiden should not | go out at night except | |
| in company | with a servant | |
| bearing a lantern. | As it was bright | |
| moonlight, however | let us hope | |
| she was excusable. |
This sauntering about in the court is not uncommon if we believe what the books say, for in the next picture we are told that: 
As near the middle summer-house,
The maiden sauntered by,
Upon the jade pin in her hair
There lit a dragon-fly.
The next illustration represented the wife of the famous poet Ssu-Ma Hsiang-Ju in her husband's wine shop.
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