Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-21
4 PARADISE For CHILDREN.

4 PARADISE FOR CHILDREN.
Japan has rightly been called "a para
dice for children In no other country
are the young people treated with such
consideration. Two days are national hol
idays for the children The third day of
the third month is the girls festival. In
every family you will find dolls in large
numbers arranged in one of the rooms re-
served for this purpose. These have been
handed down from one generation to an
other. Every mother presents each of her
girls with a doll every time this festival
comes around, and as the dolls are never
destroyed, in time they become quite
numerous The boys holiday is the fifth
day of the fifth month"; On the morning
of this festival, the boys, after passing
under the BARRIERS hands, with clean
shaven heads, and dressed in their best
clothes, go to the temples and offer a
prayer and then start out for lark. In
front of every house in which a boy has
been born you will see paper fish flying
in the wind from the end of long bam-
boo pole. The girls do up their hair but
once year. They sleep with curved
blocks Of wood under the neck. which tit
not disturbed. They are dressed exactly
like their mothers as soon as they are able
to walk and are treated like little women.
Professor Gardner, in New York Tribune
HARRY's SLED.
The winter of 1SS0-S1 was one of deep
snow and severe cold everywhere i'll the
north and northwest. There was great
suffering, and some people persisted from
the cod. Fuel became 50 scarce that, in
some neiehhorhoods, families would leave
their cheaply- buiit little wooden dwellings,
and would ali huddle together III one or
two houses, and pull down all the
rest and cut them up to build fires to keep
them from freezing to death. There
was one family that had a rather better
house than usual But during this dread
full winter, they at last burned all their
wood, and began to pull down and burn
the little fencing which inclosed their
home Then, one by one, their little out
buildings were taken down and burned.
Finally the wood-house itself was turned
into wood to burn The bitter, pitiless
cold continued, and they had, at last, to
begin to burn the chairs, and tables, and
DeuSlcduS, 10 save tnelf lives.
There was a little boy in the family
named Harry, who had beautiful sled
painted in gay colors. He was very proud
of this sled, for it was the only pretty
thing he had in the world. At last the
dreadful time came when there was moth
ing left to burn but his sled. He went to
his mother and asked how long it would
keep them alive.
ooh, my dear boy" she replied, II do
not know. Not long; perhaps an hour or
two"
"Then," said he, "before | will see my
sled burned, | will freeze to death an hour
soonerw
But help was at hand A relative from
the town near by, fearing they were starry
ing, brought bag of food on Il horses
back But he found they were more in
danger from freezing than from starva-
were all saved, and Harry's sled was not
burned Pioneer.
WHAT 4 SMALL BOY COULD DO.
a lad in Boston, rather small for his
age, works in an office as errand boy for
four gentlemen who do, business there
oIle tHt SeHLltUtcIl were
a little for being so small, and said to
him:
You will never amount to much; you
can never do much, you are too small"
The little fellow looked at them.
"Well," said he, "as small as | am,
can do something that neither of you can
do"
"Ah, what is that?o they said.
:" don't know as | ought to tell YOU"
he replied.
But they were anxious to know, and
urged him to tell what he could do that
neither of them were able to do.
81 can keep from swearing" said the
little fellow.
There were some bushes on four faces,
.and there seemed to be no anxiety for fur
ther information.
TWO DINNERS DAILY.
IL. Il