Boone County Recorder . Mules. I .- ? k Hi V 4 JAPANESESNAPSHOTS Tbe Funny Things One Seei Smiling Round the World ByMARSHALL P. WILDER (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) The Btreets in Japan are fascinat-ing, overflowing as they are with lifeand color. The children are as the— *?> of the sea, and seven times outof ten a child has a smaller onestrapped to his or her back. There isno distinction, boys playing nursequite as frequently as girls. I con-trasted their cheerfulness and evidentpleasure in performing this duty withthe outraged dignity of an Americant>oy of 10 or 12 obliged to carr
Boone County Recorder . Mules. I .- ? k Hi V 4 JAPANESESNAPSHOTS Tbe Funny Things One Seei Smiling Round the World ByMARSHALL P. WILDER (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) The Btreets in Japan are fascinat-ing, overflowing as they are with lifeand color. The children are as the— *?> of the sea, and seven times outof ten a child has a smaller onestrapped to his or her back. There isno distinction, boys playing nursequite as frequently as girls. I con-trasted their cheerfulness and evidentpleasure in performing this duty withthe outraged dignity of an Americant>oy of 10 or 12 obliged to carry a babyabont for a morning o>- afternoon. The children are put out of thetonuses early in the morning, when the. a-hoo! until its ten to one that thekid either goes into fits or lets out ahowl that makes the mother wishthat murder was not a punishable of-fense. If you have over indulged in that ten-der Tittle pastime, -then yon-can havesome idea of my frame of mind whenthe old Jap performed this strangeantic. Backing away from him, Ishook my head violently and thrustmy purse into my pocket; when heplucked me by the sleeve, and with awhine that would have done creditto a Hester street old clottes man,said: Kanye! Kanye! No, I cant. and Im hanged if Iever will! and with that I turned away,and the negotiation was at an end. Now, what do you think was thematter with the old fellow? Why, hewas not only a little touched in theupper story, but he knew nothing ofthe cash system of his country laterthan the vintage of 1868. Ho had beenleft to tend the shop for a fewmoments, and as usual I fell a vic-tim to the change of otaann -Let it be said, that, according to Del-mar, the standard formerly was, asin C
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