Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-07
oBEYTNG MOTHER PLEASANTLY.


Harry had seen some older boys fy
their kites from the top of the houses and
he thought it would be nice fun if he
could do SO too. So he came to his aunt
and said 'Aunt Mary, may go up to
the top of the house and fly my kite ?"
His aunt wished to do everything to
please him, but she thought it very unsafe;
SO she said No, Harry, my boy. |
think that is very dangerous sort of play.
I'd rather you wouldn't CO."
"All right. Then FL go out on the
bridge" said Harry.
His aunt smiled. and said she hoped he
would always be as obedient as that.
Harry, what are you doing ~ said his
mother one day.
Spinning my new top, mother"
Can't you take the baby out to ride
Get out the carriage and FL bring him
down."
"All right" shouted the boy, as he put
his top away in his pocket and fastened to
obey his mother
Uncle William, may 60 over to your
shop this morning ?" said Harry one day
at breakfast. i want to see those bask-
cts again that was looking at yesterday.
oh, yes, Harry" said his uncle, 81
shall be very glad to have you"
!" But cannot spare you to-day, Harry"
said his mother. " l want you to go out
with me. You shall 90 to the shop an
other day"
" All right" said Harry, and he went
on with his breakfast
No matter what Harry was asked to do.
or what refusal he met with when asking
for anything, his constant answer was, "All
right" He never stopped to worry or
tease; he never asked, "Whv can't %
Harry had learned to obey, and to obey in
good humor.-Selected.
THE BoAT-DwELLERs OF JAPAN.
Young people who live in London or
New York may fancy that our cities are
crowded, and that many families must live
without very much air to breathe or space
for the boys and girls to play in. What
would they say to the boat-dwellers of
Japan? In that crowded country hun
dredS of families spend their lives and
bring up their children upon the water.
and know nothing of the land, except as
they make an occasional visit to it when
obliged to purchase supplies or attend to
some unusual business. In every bay along
the coast are found hundreds, if not thou
sands, of small craft called Chunks" These
are small, flat-bottomed boats, and are
owned and inhabited by man and his
family, just as houses are in other parts of
the world. Their business is the trans
portation of good and merchandise of all
kinds, and their navigation is a sort of
family affair. One traveller says:
u have seen boat twenty feet long
most adroitly managed by three children
all under seven years of age. am told
that, Notwithstanding their aptness at
swimming, many boatmen get drowned,
tor no boat ever goes to another's aid, nor
will any boatman save another from
drowning, because, as he says, it is all fate.
and he who interferes with fate will be
severely punished in some way" Among
these wonderful aquatic families Children
of three years old will sometimes swim
like little fish, and if one is backward in
learning, he will be thrown overheard, and
teased and tormented until he is obliged
to learn the art in self-defense.
All it is in reading and learning about
the people of other lands that we find how
much We have to love and be thankful for
in the broad free life of our own. But
even here there are children who would
be the better for such frequent baths, and
perhaps you would have great difficulty in
persuading the little Japs that life in the
hot and crowded streets of our great cities
was to be preferred to that of the Junk
men on the rivers and harbors of their
own country.-Anon.