m Other Lands.=

By ELLA M. POWERS.

(DIRECTIONS.--This exercise may be given by six little girls.
The platform may be decorated with evergreen trees or boughs,
and flags should be used freely. The American girl should be
dressed in an American flag and wear a cap of red, white, and
blue. The costumes of the others may be as follows:

The Eskimo girl should procure a boy's fur coat, or wrap a fur
rug about her and wear a fur cap or hood and fur mittens.

The Indian girl can throw about her a gay-colored blanket,
and wear strings of beads about her neck, arms, and head. Her
straight dark hair should be parted in the middle, plaited
in two braids in the back, and decorated with short pieces of
bright ribbons. Moccasins and dark brown stockings may be worn
on the feet. Bracelets, earrings, chains, beads, quills, and
brooches may be used as ornaments. The hands, arms, and face
should be stained. To color the skin get a stick of Hess
Grease Paint No. 17. Rub a little vaseline into the skin to
be tinted. Then rub a portion of the paint on the palm of the
left hand and with the fingers of the right hand transfer
it evenly to the skin surface until the required tint is
obtained.

The Chinese girl should be dressed brightly with large,
square, loose hanging sleeves, a broad sash tied on one side,
her hair brushed flat, coiled in the back, with haircomb and
pins thrust into the coil. She may have a Japanese parasol and
carry a fan.

The African girl may be dressed in red and black, with black
hair and red handkerchief over her head and large rings in her
ears. Face and hands blackened with burnt cork.

The Arabian girl can wear a tunic or bright shawl draped about
her, a turban of a bright silk handkerchief, and wear feathers
in her hair. She should be very dark-complexioned

The American girl enters, takes her seat in the center of the
platform, saying:)

_American girl_:

And this again is Christmas day;
My invitations all
Have gladly been accepted;
Let us see who first will call.

(Eskimo girl enters, bows, comes forward with a fur bag filled
with presents, which she passes to the American girl as she
mentions them.)

_Eskimo girl_:

I'm a little Eskimo girl,
I live in the land of ice,
We never saw a Christmas tree
Nor frui