A Japanese Doll With An American Name

         All Japanese love flowers. Girls are taught how to arrange flowers in school, for every girl must know the art of flower arrangement before she becomes a bride.

       The Japanese have rules for arranging flowers, just as we have rules for playing games. One rule is that the tallest flower in the bowl or vase stands for Heaven, the shortest, Earth, and the middle-sized spray, Man.

       Sometimes little Japanese girls try to teach their dolls the way to arrange flowers.

       Nelly, the doll arranging the flowers, was given to an American girl, the daughter of an American missionary living in Japan, more than forty years ago. Nelly is the doll's American name.

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