Young Folks’ Corner

Northland Age, Volume 5, Issue 23, 6 March 1936, Page 8

Young Folks’ Corner

Mai=Cha of Chosen Mai-cha, or Plum Child, as her name signified, was a little Chosenese girl, who lived in Chosen or the “Land of Morning Calm,” once known as Korea. Chosen is a peninsula, far away in East Asia, lying between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea. Mai-Cha was like one of the many flowers whose perfume filled the air with sweet perfume. Her face was ivory tinted and her eyes were black and sparkling. She was not as tiny and dainty as the little girls in Japan, but she was more stolid and strongly built. Her cheek bones were high like those of the Indian race, and her small nose was a little flat.. Her long black hair was braided and tied with

a gay, cherryred ribbon. Every day Mai-Cha would come out of her house, and look up at the lovely green mountains covered with pine forests and great oak trees, and she would listen to the music of the streams as they ran cheerily down the mountain sides. She lived in a house made of stone and wood and clay, with a thatched roof of grass, and shaped like a beehive. Around the house was a fence made of sugar cane, and a bamboo gate. The house was located in a small village in a huge valley. Often when Mai-Cha stood in the doorway, she could hear the flutes of the fishers, faintly, in the distance. A Door for the Dog Mai-Cha had to stoop down to get inside the house, for the door was