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.
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