Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . the nobility of his character but as to the length of hispurse; for etiquette compels him to spend much money. Hemust provide the christening party with carriages, unless thechilds parents own them. It is quite usual even when thepeople live next door to drive to a baptism, as it is a sacred func-tion. The godfather must celebrate the birth by giving en-tirely at his own expense as lavish an entertainment as must also present pieces of silver or of gold to all the rela-tives, friends and acquaintances. One beautiful
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . the nobility of his character but as to the length of hispurse; for etiquette compels him to spend much money. Hemust provide the christening party with carriages, unless thechilds parents own them. It is quite usual even when thepeople live next door to drive to a baptism, as it is a sacred func-tion. The godfather must celebrate the birth by giving en-tirely at his own expense as lavish an entertainment as must also present pieces of silver or of gold to all the rela-tives, friends and acquaintances. One beautiful feature of Cuba is the phosphorescent fly. Itis often used as a lamp by the children to light them throughthe dark. CHILDHOOD IN MANY LANDS 227 CHILD LIFE IN PORTO RICO The army census of 1899 showed that in a total populationof about a million persons in Porto Rico we had 300,000 chil-dren under ten years of age. The birthrate is much higher therethan in the United States, and yet the population increasesmore slowly because the infant death rate is very AN ENGLISH CHILD AND HER PETS The children of this island possession are of all colors, frombrown and kinky-haired babies to those of fair skin and sunnylocks. The clothing of these sun-loving people is very children very seldom wear anything, while the olderones are content with one garment. When American schoolswere first established, the teaching capacity was very small. Alaw was made to permit only children who were clothed to at-tend school. One man who had no money to buy his boy 228 CHILDHOOD IN MANY LANDS clothes thought this very unreasonable. It was better, he said,to have something in the boys head than on his back. So hesent his boy to school one day with a pair of knee pants madeof a Pillsbury flour bag and marked: X X X. Although the children of Porto Rico seem happy, they aresad and not very strong because they do not have nutritiousfood. Many get nothing to eat but fruit and certain sweet-meat
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