. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. ney (oftener perhaps in one room than in two) a whole familylives, cooks, and sleeps. The streets, if such they may be called, are often little morethan crooked water-rutted paths, so narrow that one may reachfrom the mud walls of the houses on one side to the mud wallson the other, and so crooked that you are likely to meet your-self coming back before you get to the end. Or perhaps youwind up unexpectedly in some mahuUah — a group of h
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. ney (oftener perhaps in one room than in two) a whole familylives, cooks, and sleeps. The streets, if such they may be called, are often little morethan crooked water-rutted paths, so narrow that one may reachfrom the mud walls of the houses on one side to the mud wallson the other, and so crooked that you are likely to meet your-self coming back before you get to the end. Or perhaps youwind up unexpectedly in some mahuUah — a group of hutsrepresenting several families of kinsfolk. Enclosed by a mudwall, the Httle brown bright-eyed, black-haired, half-nakedchildren are playing together in the little opening around whichthe houses are bunched, and the barefooted mothers are cookingchapatis, spinning cotton on knee-high spiiming wheels, weavingin some wonderfidly primitive way, gathering fuel, or are en-gaged in other household tasks. The equipment of one ofthese human ant-hills, called a home, is about as primitive asthe building itself. There is, of course, a bed or cot: it is about. $i^
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