SIAMESE CHILDREN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 99, 20 January 1908, Page 3

SIAMESE CHILDREN.

oung Siam is very English in somo of its more superficial characteristics. Tho schoolboys carry satchels or straps full of books and slates, and tlioir usual garb consists of a straw hat, whito drill jacket, and khaki knickerbockors of Luropean stvle; Somo havo taken to. "soccer" football, 'and play it quito strenuously despite the climato, but as a rule, thou- amusements do. not demand such a vigorous exercise of muscle. In school they, if, all accounts.be correct, provo bright enough, but aro prone to weary soon of each subject—a thing not unknown among our own lads, but accentuated there by climatic and perhaps hcreditarj- influences. Siamese girls, too, are bright and smart onougli, as a couplo of English ladies recently discovered. J hey wero in a tramcar when a well-dressed little Siamese damsel entered "Quito a pretty child, that, isn't it?" said ono of the English ladies. But before the other bad time to replv a merry voico said: "Oh, thank vmi so much. At homo they call mo tho ugly duckling because, thoy say, my nose is too long .and prominent for a Siamese!" The English lady at onco becamo covered wiHi confusion and apologetic; but the Siameso maiden was most gracious, and volunteered tho information that sho was 12 years of ago and had been learning English for two voars Few English children of her age could' have shown a better command of our own language.

Lvery woman who wishes her husband to love Ins home, and her children's earliest memories to he happy and merry ones, oiHit to stipulate, when she marries,' far a house to live in. A flat as a habitation ia fit only for lonely celibacy, not for wedded hirmijiv and happiness.—"Black and Whito.'<