JAPANESE CHILDREN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 295, 25 October 1922, Page 12

JAPANESE CHILDREN.

"They seem totally to lack the instinct for destruction that is the main characteristic of offspring (writes Dorothy Dix in "My Joy Ride Round the World.",) In the bay Of Yofcohama, there is some sort of a little pink barnacle* about the size of a silver dime. The Japanese put into the water little twigs an<l sticks, and when these have become covered with the pinkish ahells they mat them together between bamboo poles, and make of them a fence that looks like a wall of mother-of-pearl, it is the most beautiful, ethereal. frailest structure possible to imagine, yet one sees blocks and blocks of this fence along a public highway, oh which thousands of little children pass and p<lay every day. And it is not touched! A small boy and a mother-of-pearl fence, existing at one and the same time and .place? I regard this as one of the chiefest marvels of Japan."