Our Boys and Girls pages on the Fourth of July 1902
The issue discusses read aloud poems selections for children, note of lullabies by Lucy Larcom and others, and Fourth of July safety tips. It mentions Robert Louis Stevenson works for children and Humperdinck Dream music in Hansel and Gretel as lullaby sources. The editor warns about firework safety and offers simple remedies for minor burns.
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Lucy Larcom
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Eugene Field
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Arthur Sullivan
Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel
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Sea Anemone Garden Faces Crab Thief in Tide Tale
A Victorian era sea creature tale describes a pink sea anemone, green and gold and red varieties, clinging to rocks and drawing food by currents. A young crab tries to steal a meal, provoking a defense with stinging threads. The crabs mother and other anemones respond, ending with the entire garden destroyed by night.
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Pighead
Fairies in the Country Fields Lullaby Advice
A fragmentary verse invites a child to seek fairies in the countryside before dawn. It warns that the creatures must not be heard, and to peek into bells of foxgloves and to listen for distant chimes as the fair folk lie asleep.
The American Flag Poem in a Fragmented Verse
Fragmented text echoes a poem praising the American flag as freedom’s emblem. References to the sun, sky, eagle bearer, and celestial colors invoke national symbols and battles. Dense archaic phrasing and garbled punctuation obscure full meaning.
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