Why Japanese Children Seem So Happy

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 6, 1877

Why Japanese Children Seem So Happy

JAPANESE children—so says the London Spectator—are happy and light hearted. In Tokio one scarcely ever hears a child cry. The reasons assigned for this fact are that the clothing of children in Japan is loose and comfortable; that they are much in the open air and sunshine; the furnishing of Japanese houses is suited to the comfort of children; they are petted, but not capriciously indulged; and their elders enter into sympathy with them strongly. Americans might study these causes of children's happiness to good purpose.