The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-02-19
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hearing these, will conclude that the
: parents do not care much for theil
], offspring and will not take the trouble
to harm them. The fear that disaster
may come to a boy, particularly ar
only son, is the reason why many Of
them wear the dress of Buddhist
priest and have their heads shaved
/ till eight or nine years of age. The
first anniversary is a decisive day
Surrounded by variety of articles,
such as a symbol of political Office,
books, ink slab (the ink, like an art
lists paint, is applied with a tiny
brush) and string of cash, the baby
is to pick up one object and this Sc
lection will indicate his future career.
Not a few Chinese children wear
little but natures garb in summer;
and in winter as fire is reduced to
minimum they are dressed in pad
ded clothes Instead of stating tenn
perature by degrees, it is so many
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is tied. This is very important mat
ter as it is supposed to make the
child gentle. If he is disobedient
common remark is: Surely his par
ents forgot to bind his wrists"
Around the neck is another red cord.
From this are suspended objects
which are believed to preserve from
the evil spirits.
The boy starts to school at six,
but fortune teller must be consulted
to fix upon lucky day for this in
cident. The new scholar carries 4
present to the teacher. The impress
sive act in beginning an educational
career is to burn incense before a
tablet having the name of Confucius
upon it. An opening sentence in a.
primer is: Men at their birth are
by nature radically good" But evil
IDENTIFY the pedagogical creed gets
slightly mixed, for another declaration
is: "To educate without severity
shows teachers incidence" In &C
cord with this mild hint the bamboo
rod is ever present.
An indication of the fine art oil
learning his mother speech the Chin
csc boy must acquire ability to twist
his tongue for seven infections, some
of which are so nearly alike that to
the foreigner there is no apparent diff
ference. But so much depends on the
mere turn of a tone that poor talker
might speak of his wives when he
meant his fowls; or calling for a cane
get bottle; or for salt, and receive
tobacco; or make remarks about al
field which can rightly apply only tol
heaven. A missionary sent his serv-
ant to purchase dozen flowers of a
certain kind. After an all days search
through the city the boy returned tO|
report that he could find but two. He
had been hunting for lambs tails, due
to the wrong infection in his mas
ters request.
China has had eager scholars. One
is reported as shutting himself up|
to study and to have overcome drow-
siness by fastening his queue to al
beam. When his head nodded It'll
pulled his hair and awakened him.
One studied by the light from num-
Der of glow worms he collected; an
other by the brightness reflected from
the snow, and the last heard from
bound his book to the horns of a cowI
he was tending, much as a great
American preacher from Iowa is said
to have tied his open volume on the
cultivator. His folks testify that i'll
was good for the student but terrible
hard on the corn. Worms and snow
for illumination are now relegated tol
the rear along with our tallow dips
AS result of the acumen of a GER
tain captain of finance, so intent upon