Show KOREAN SCHOOLBOYS They Take Their Whippings On the Caves of Their Legs The teacher Is always dressed in white woam the hut seen in the illustration illus-tration generally wears spectacles and always has a rod In order that the child may nat be spoiled He gathers his flock round him in the most fatherly manner and deals out justice with an unsparing hand The scholars are dressed in their best but must study without their shoes These latter are kept In sIght of the teacher at aU times The course of study Is not very extensive ex-tensive to look at but when it comes to etudying the Koran language through the medium oI Chines It must be confess that the beginning of a course Is difficult The scholar is first taught the name and meaning of Chinese characters and then their meaning In Korean Just as though we were obliged to learn English through the medium of the Greek alphabet This Book of the Thousand Charae tots Is a curiosity in its way I con talus a its name indicates a thousand thou-sand ChInese characters arranged in proper order as to meanIng and of all that number no two are In any marked manner alike The book are generally furnished i by the teacher but the Ink ink saucers i and little I water vessels and benches 1b N I are brought by the puplis Students keep up a steady droning I noIse ns each one goes on repetng his portion of the task aloud regardless regard-less of what is goIng on around him The use of the ro Is somewhat different dif-ferent in Korea from this part of the world The little cUlprit is made to stand up in front of the whole school all study being suspended for the time being and he is made to pull up his 1 loose trousers so as to expose the calf I of the leg and the birch is applied with a vIgor equal to the offense These faraway boys these youthful I members of The Hermit Nation amuse I themselves with pretty much he same gaet as their brothers In AmerIca Hopscotch prisoners base folew the ICJder games of bail chasing cats robbing I I rob-bing bird net 11ll ng foreigners boys seem pretty much the same wher over thmei grow The results attained by these to uS siipsho methods aN sometimes very valuable and it is not unusual to meet boys and young men with an education lou ther purposes quite as good as that gotten by marc oxpenstve and complicated methods in I other parts of the wodd NAlIN WEBSTER |