LUCKY JAPANESE CHILDREN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8551, 17 February 1906, Page 2

LUCKY JAPANESE CHILDREN.

A Japanese belle does not pass .Ee* life amidst luxurious surroundingp. She is provided with, everything she needs, and with a great deal more, but she doe not possess quantities of useless things. The Japanese child eats numbers of sweetmeats. Great sticks of boiled sugar, made into a delicious candy, of all colours, clear, sweet and attractive, are placed within her reach, and at all hours of the day she can help herself tq a piece. She can also help herself ta bits of sugar candy mixture, which k pure white in colour and very sweet tc the taste. In appearance it is not ua« like the lather of shaving soap, and dissolves very quickly in the mouth. It ia( a sort of rice candy, and of this sweet the children partake constantly. Japanese physcians maintain thati sweets build up the muscles. ,In most countries a child is given meat to mak« it strong, but the Japanese hold that sweets make the system healthy, and that a child craves for sugar and should have it. ' The shoes of a little Japanese girl arc light and soft, and are made to yield to the 6hape of the foot. They are constructed with compartments, so to speak, so that the toes can spread and the walk can be free. Such a thing ai a tight shoe would be impossible, and the little soft white mocoaeins are so out and sewed that they adjust the-mselve* readily to the growing foot.; When it comes to. the matter of waistbands, the little Japanese girl if equally fortunate. She' wears nothing at all round her waist unless it be « y wide scarf of silk, which is knotted at the side, of back. The small Japanese is my fond of nrasio, and every home has its littU orchestra, so to learn to play- is the early ambition of every little girl. la she not a lucky little person, th» smcM daughter of our far-off al^f,