JAPANESE BABIES  WONDER what you romping merry children at home would say to Japanese babies! “Poor little things,” I fancy you would say when you first saw them, and “poor little things” many people say after they have seen them very often.The Japanese baby practically spends the first two years of its life tied to some one else's back, and its happiness during that period depends very largely on that some one else's inclination to continually “move on.” Its little legs are tied tight to the other person's back, and a string is passed under its little arms and round that other person's neck, then its arms and head are allowed free play. As the poor mite's chief amusement is sleeping and it has no pillow or other support, the little head hangs first one side and then on the other, unless indeed it falls straight back, and you wonder every time you see it so why its neck does not break. But it does not, and after sleeping thus for a time, baby will perhaps suddenly wake up and begin looking round it in a contented, happy		manner. Japanese babies sometimes cry of course, but it is generally because they are hungry, or the string has become too tight, or the “other person” has stood still too long. I think considering they have so little amusement and are always tied up. Japanese babies cry less than any others in the world.
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