Lady Hollyhock and her Friends

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Margaret Coulson Walker. Lady Hollyhock and her Friends

Foreword

Lady Hollyhock and Her Daughter

The Cucumbers

Radishes and Corn

The Radish Baby’s Song

Radish Babies

The Corn Lullaby

Pansies

Pansy Ladies

Poppy Maids

Poppy Lullaby

Acorn and Burdock Eskimos

Pigs

Burdock Leaves and Clothes-Pins

The Clothes-Pin Tribe

An Irish (Potato) Woman and Her Family

Creatures of Clay

A Man of Clay

The Corn Husk Lady

The Corn Cob Baby

Apple Jack

APPLE JACK’S STORY

The Peanut Man

The Peanut Chinese Woman

The Acorn Family

The Haws

The Gourds

Gourd Men

What the Gourd Man Said

The Mender

Hickory-Nut People

The Hickory-Nut Nurse

The Kelp Maiden

The Kelp Maid's Song

Morning-Glory Ladies

Jack O’Lanterns

Pumpkin Pies

Jack O’Lantern Dreams

Rastus Prune

Dinah Prune

Pipe Dolls

Paper Dolls

Handkerchief Dolls

Pill-Box Dolls

The Straw Indian

The Dried Peach Indian

The Softening of the Snows

Pastry Creatures

The Doughnut Man

The Gingerbread Maid

The Yarn Child

Rag Dolls

Rag Babies

Tissue-Paper Ladies

Humpty-Dumpty

Cinderella’s Coach

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THIS book has a purpose beyond that of mere amusement. Its aim is to aid parents in furnishing not only entertainment but profitable employment as well, for their little ones—profitable, in that work under the guise of play, makes for character. The value of the things made is not in their finish, but in the training which they afford—a value ethical rather than intrinsic.

Children throw aside as uninteresting the finished toys from the shops when they have once learned to make playthings for themselves. To an imaginative child the possibilities of green things growing, of other materials provided by the changing seasons, and of the apparently useless trifles to be found in any home, are endless, and far surpass in permanent interest the realm of magic. In giving tangible form to the creatures imagined, thought is ripened into action and childhood’s natural desire for expressed imagery satisfied.

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There is no more interesting study for grown ups than that of children at play with dolls and animals of their own making. The more imaginative children prefer the flower dolls which fade or die quickly and then go to take their places in the sky to which they give the beautiful colors on sunset evenings. Others, natural little gad-a-bouts, always play “come to see,” while in some practical little souls the spirit of motherhood is so strong that, to them, every doll is a baby doll, and everything they play with, from a clothes-pin to a poker, must be mothered—sung to and cared for, petted and rocked.

Boys, with their more belligerent tastes, prefer to make Indians and soldiers out of the same materials that their sisters would convert into the most peaceful of citizens. Those in whom the sense of humor is strong make every face a comic one, while others put into the faces drawn by them the demure, trivial, or rugged features and expressions harmonizing with their ideas.

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