CHART ER | XV:
CHILDREN AND CHILDREN’S SPORTS.

ALPH and Rick were
exceedingly interested

in the child-element of.
life in Japan, and wished
they could see a Japanese
school. The doctor drew
some papers out of his
pocket, and from among
them produced a picture:
«This represents an old-
time school; and yet not

 

A DOLL MAKER. so very old, as the change

has come so_ recently

Look at this picture! You see the teacher and scholars are squat

upon the floor, and the teacher has laid his book on a book-rest.
There are the scholars scattered about.

“You notice the heads of the boys,—the hair shaven off,
excepting a tuft over the forehead and over each ear. There is
a child wearing about its waist the girdle, or obi. You see the
children’s sandals on the floor. One boy is wearing a foot-mitten
that has a separate place for the great toe, as a hand-mitten has
for the thumb. There is another boy who seems to wear foot-
mittens. Among those scholars some confusion has been introduced.

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