The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-10-21
Story Of the Far Away Lands.

The following was written by Miss
Margaret Brown, aged II years She
is attending school in District No. I,
Denison township.
We call this land Japan, but the ia
panese call it Sun Rise Land. On
the 3rd of March these people have
holiday for their children They call
it feast. The children bring their
dolls They have girl dolls and boy
dolls that have been kept for many
yeare: ever since their great grand
mothers We're little girls. After the
feast they put them away, Except the
incest ones which they leave to play
with. Some of their dolls are dressed
as an emperor and some as expresses;
some as kings and some as princesses
The people in Japan have mats to lay
on the floor and when it is time for
them to go to bed, they make their beds
on the floor. They spread lovely com
forters on the floor and one or two over
them. Their pillows are blocks of wood
covered with paper
When they eat their supper, each one
has table The pie and cake is served
first, then the soups The soups are
made of beets mostly. After they have
their soups, they serve their rice which
they eat with chopsticks.
Their robes are made of fine silks
with very large sleeves which they use
as pockets.
Each child has two bags. one con-
tanning paper handkerchiefs, the other
containing a silver plate with their
fathers name and address, SO if they
get lost they can be returned to their
folks. Their best robes are of velvet
with embroidered flowers They use
paper parasols when the sun shines or
when it is stormy.
In Japan, there lives little girl and
her brother Kato whom | will tell you
about. They go riding in their jnrik
ishas which four men haul, instead of
horses like we do. When they want to
travel rapidly their men will go about
five miles an hour. The little girl and
boy went out riding in their iinriksha
and when they came into town they
met man who gave them dough which
they wouldnbake in a little oven the
man had Thew would cut out letters
and then bake them They would
learn their letters from these and then
eat them. They hadn't gone very far
before Kato cried The candy man, the
candy man." When they came up to
him the got out of their jinrikisha and
went up to him. Kato asked for kite
and the little girl for some candy birds,
and the man blew them whatever they
asked for. There was another man who
performed tricks for them Il had a
sword and he would take piece of pa
per and run it up and down on the
sword, then it went up in the air and
wnel 1t came Gown again it turned
down in two places and each one turn
ed into a bird and flew away. Kato
and his little sister like to go fishing
They also go down to thesriver and
watch the ships sail by. They catch
locusts end put them In cages and car
ry them home for pets. They have very
nice times with them. They say their
cats do not play with their tails like
ours do because their cats have none to
play with. Katos house has no win
dows or doors. When they want to 60
out OF their house they push back a
screen which opens the side of the
house. Rice grows over their house.
They have forty-seven letters in their
alphabet. They begin at the right hand
side of their paper to read or write.
| They let the birds build their nests in
their houses. Kato and his sister are
very glad when they can sit and watch
the birds building their nests.
Kato has cloth stockings; in every
one there is place for the big toe.
They have heavy wooden shoes for wet
weather, but when they go into the
house they take them off.
How would you like to live in this
country?