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    Big People and Little People of Other Lands
    Big People and Little People of Other Lands
    Big People and Little People of Other Lands
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    Big People and Little People of Other Lands

    By Edward R. (Edward Richard) Shaw

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Big People and Little People of Other Lands - Edward R. (Edward Richard) Shaw

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Big People and Little People of Other Lands, by Edward R. Shaw

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      Title: Big People and Little People of Other Lands

      Author: Edward R. Shaw

      Release Date: January 10, 2005 [eBook #14655]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIG PEOPLE AND LITTLE PEOPLE OF OTHER LANDS***

      E-text prepared by Al Haines

      BIG PEOPLE

      AND

      LITTLE PEOPLE

      OF OTHER LANDS

      BY

      EDWARD R. SHAW

      Dean of the School of Pedagogy

      New York University

      New York    Cincinnati    Chicago

      American Book Company

      1900

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE.

      This little book is designed to meet the child's natural desire to learn or hear of other people than those living in the part of the world about him.

      It has been thoroughly proved in our newer pedagogical practice that the child in the first school year is much interested in descriptions of the Indian and the Eskimo. Whenever descriptions of the Indian and the Eskimo have been given him, they have not only fulfilled their purpose in furnishing material for reading and the interrelation of several activities of expression, but they have revealed to him the fact that there are other people in the world, who differ very much from those he has seen.

      His interest in different peoples at this time is in their physical appearance, their dress, their ways of living, their customs, their manners, and it arises chiefly from the contrast which descriptions of these afford to familiar customs, conditions, and physical characteristics.

      The child is not interested, at that stage of his intellectual development which falls in the first or the second school year, in the situation of countries. It does not matter to him exactly where, geographically, the people about whom he reads live. He is satisfied if some general statement is made to the effect that they live far away to the north, where the cold countries are, or in the south, where it is warm and sometimes hot, or on the other side of the world.

      His desire, at this period, for new impressions and ideas gained from descriptions and accompanying pictures is as keen as his desire for sense impressions gained from the world of nature and activity about him. This wider range of information and ideas, it is believed, he may in some measure gain from this little book.

      DRESDEN, July 15, 1899.

      PEOPLE OF OTHER LANDS.

      CHINA.

      On the other side of this great round world is a country called China. When it is dark here, and we are going to sleep, the sun is just waking up the children in China and telling them it is morning. When we get up in the morning they are just bidding the sun good night. When it is light here it is dark there. So they have day when we have night.

      Chinese children look like little men and women, for they dress like their fathers and mothers. Boys and girls dress nearly alike. They both dress in silk or cotton trousers. They wear over these long gowns reaching nearly to their feet. They wear odd-looking shoes with thick white soles. The boys' heads are shaved, except a small part on top. There a lock of hair is left. This lock of hair is braided and hangs down the back. A queer name is given to it. It is called a queue. Girls in China do not go to school, but all day long they are busy; they help their mothers keep house; they tend the babies; they sew, and help with the cooking.

      [Illustration: Chinese Women and Children.]

      The schools in China are only for boys. The boys make a great deal of noise in school. A Chinese teacher thinks the boys are idle if they do not study their lessons out loud. So each boy shouts as loud as he can. When the boy has learned his lesson, he goes up and gives his book to the teacher. Then he turns his back to the teacher, and shouts out the whole lesson to show that he knows it.

      The boys are taught to count. They learn by using balls set in a frame. The frame is like the frame of a slate. The balls slide on wires. With the balls they learn to add and subtract.

      They also learn how to write, but they have no pens or pencils. They write with small brushes dipped in ink. Each boy makes his own ink. He puts some water on a stone and then rubs a cake of ink in the water. This makes a fine black ink called India ink. Then the boy fills his brush and begins at the top, right-hand corner of the paper. He writes toward the bottom of the sheet. He puts one word under another instead of beside it as you do. Then he begins a new line at the top, and writes to the bottom again.

      [Illustration: Chinese writing.]

      Chinese books are printed in the same way. Where do you think a Chinese book begins? A Chinese book begins where our books end.

      In China many girls and women have very small feet. When they are babies their feet are bound up tightly. They sometimes wear iron shoes. Then their feet never grow, but are so very small that they can hardly walk. Poor parents know their girls will have to work hard, and so do not bind their feet.

      Chinese girls make beautiful paper flowers. They paint pictures. They sing and play. Some of them pick the snow-white cotton in the fields. Some of them take care of the silk-worms that spin the soft silk.

      But they do not work all the time. They play many pretty games. Chinese boys, too, have

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