Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER II. AMONG THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF JAPAN —A JAPAN-ESE PRAYER MEETING —NATIVE POLITENESS AND ETI-QUETTE—MY EXPERIENCE WITH CHOPSTICKS. Compensations — The Brown Babies of India — The Yellow Babies ofJapan— Queensland Lucy — A Forlorn Little Black Girl — The HottestPlace on Earth — Home Life in Japan — Going to Prayer Meeting in aJinrikisha — A Shuffling, Awkward Gait — Where We Left Our Shoes — Japanese Etiquette — A Cordial Welcome — Bowing to the Floor — Rock of Ages in Japanese—An Inte
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTER II. AMONG THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF JAPAN —A JAPAN-ESE PRAYER MEETING —NATIVE POLITENESS AND ETI-QUETTE—MY EXPERIENCE WITH CHOPSTICKS. Compensations — The Brown Babies of India — The Yellow Babies ofJapan— Queensland Lucy — A Forlorn Little Black Girl — The HottestPlace on Earth — Home Life in Japan — Going to Prayer Meeting in aJinrikisha — A Shuffling, Awkward Gait — Where We Left Our Shoes — Japanese Etiquette — A Cordial Welcome — Bowing to the Floor — Rock of Ages in Japanese—An Interesting Meeting — Strugglingwith a Foreign Language — Sayonarato our Friends — JapaneseRefreshments — Eating Bean Soup with Chopsticks — A DifficultOperation — Drinking Soup from a Bowl — Delusive Beans — New Usefor a Sleeve — A Japanese Pillow — The Professor of OME of the compensations thatcome to a woman who for thesake of taking a journey aroundthe world has given up her ownhome, are the delightful glimpsesshe gets of other homes, and thepleasant acquaintances made withother women and children. Ifshe cannot cuddle her own babiesshe can cuddle the little brownones in India or Ceylon, or theyellow ones in China and Japan,and in talking with their mothers she cannot help but feel asympathy with home life in other lands such as never couldhave been awakened by books or travelers tales. One of my first native acquaintances was little Queens- (603) 004 LITTLE QUEENSLAND LUCY.* land Lucy (as we called her), on the Mariposa, the steamerwhich carried us from San Francisco to Sydney. Her sadlittle face was the blackest one I ever saw, and she was sothin and poor that I wondered if she ever had enough toeat. As I became better acquainted with her, I found thatthe sober face could light up with a smile, and that in spiteof her forlorn appearance she h
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