Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1914 — Children of Palestine at Play. [ARTICLE]

Children of Palestine at Play.

In Palestine, as always, children’s play is mostly "making believe” that they are grown up. You may see a mite of five or six paying a visit of ceremony to a phsha or equally tender years, exchanging such compliments with him as "Rest, 1 pray youl" "Nay, he who sees you la rested." and finally backing out of his presence while he gathers up handfuls of dust and sprinkles it on bis head. Holding a law court, with melon needs to repre-

sent the bribes, is a popular game, and so is a raid of fierce men from the desert. The selling of Joseph and his subsequent interviews with his brethren are rendered with much dramatic action; also the afflictions of the men of Uz, with new details, such as Job’s wife cutting off her hair and selling it for bread. “Doing bride" is naturally the chief amusement of the Moslem girl, as it is the one great event of her later life.