Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-01-19
CHILDREN IN JAPAN.
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1lEUAO 1OAho Va tAAng ou101kO OOnlI-
try do not have as much time for enjoy
ment in childhood as the children in
Europe and America. From the time
that they are able to walk they are
forced to work in some way.
I have seen them often when about
four years old and just able TO waddle
along the road, with their younger
brother or sister on their back, much
the same as the Indian women carry
their children Their parents being
poor, and not able to hire nurses, the
older children, whether boy or girl,
have to perform the duties that are gem
orally performed by the mothers or
nurses with us. The children will,
with this burden forced on them,
through weakness and carelessness,
frequently stumble and fall down; in
doing so they viii awake their sleeping
companion, or perhaps bruise him,
when both nurse and child will cry
that being the balm that children all
the world over use to cure their aches
and pains. But there they get little
sympathy or attention given them, SO
that there is very little of it
have seen parents who, not being
able through poverty to. bring their
children up in the way they would like
them to go, dispose OF them to parties
having means to do so. Although this
seems heartless and cruel, still in many
cases it, is greatly to the benefit OF
them, they being taken care of and
taught the trade or profession hat is
best adapted to them.
AL persons are compelled by the
laws of the land to attend school until
they have attained sufficient knowlege.
of their written and spoken language,
SO that all are at4east able to read and
write. They have their higher courses
and accomplishments as we have-the
learned man beng as much esteemed.
and respected as with us they beng
with The doctors the onIy classes of
menWho wear their bearde there; for
you must remamber that the boards
not and only q small portion of the
bnir ohtthe head is worn here. The
lie shavhR prdoessZthat is, the
shaving Of the head when they are four
months old-they do 50 believing it
VIII come out muehstronger in growth
than II left as with us
Twatched q child who objected TO
being used In this manner. The moth
a, to keep the child quiet, placed 1t in
bathfub, the water being mp to the
poor little ones chin. In its struggles
to get away, the water got into its
month. So with o natural instinctthat
it might get drowned, it was with little
difficulty relieved of the few hairs that
had grown on its head.
After a boy or girl is five years old
the hair IS allowable grow in this wise;
The hair en- the top Of the head of the
boyis shavedtoH the hair on the back
and top and forehead Is then made in
to a cue and laid on the top of the
head. When alloy is fourteen years
of age, the hair on the forehead is
shaved of-from thence he is consid-
cred a man. The girls do not shave
but Little after they r grown, only a
an inch square. When the girl
Is married the hair is al
lowed to grow. She then shayes off
her eyebfoWs and blacks her teeth,
which gives the married woman q hid
eous appearance. The BARRIERS are IN
great demand, and can be seen at all
hours in the public streets working on
the heads of the natives. Their hair is
dressed almost every day, but to pre-
vent it being disaEranged when Sleep
they have q small box about six
inches long by three inches wide, at the
bottom, which tapers to ashe1ght of
FIVE inches; on this is fastened a small
bag of rice chat. This is their
pillow. and Is placed under the back Of
neck. nv sensations when irving
10 use itadufing my visit inthe interior.
when / had been lying on it about TEN
minutesS was that It Was4qnite hard,
then quite high; Ithen turned it over,
and found il would not do, 50 I threw
itinEagin disgusk thinking a log of
A. 40 "a not oeneranv worn fba
and varys i;tkIe orrament IN The /
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vitb t5rse or fonr The cbifdren tbsre
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asswifh-u ere tbe same in
,atnre "a In any other,part. ofthe world
-fnifofniav and misehiefT The school
nosfer e not Ybe trinn and sedate-looL-
navson we bave here 4 wifi a
'nfesof iron holds SWAY over q few doz-
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