Show JAPANESE moralizing MORAL IZING the only aiace where the IB considered useful an english teacher in a japanese school discovered by giving ont subjects for composition that the pupils had been trained to find a moral in everything animate and inanimate mr hearn in his glimpses of unfamiliar japan gives a few specimens of the moral ideas evoked from the native students by subjects for english composition one boy thus wrote on mosquitoes qui toes on summer nights we hear the sound of faint voices and little things come and sting our bodies very violently we call them kain ka in english mosquitoes qui toes I 1 think the sting is useful for us because if we begin to sleep the ka shall come and stieg us uttering a small voice then we shall be back to study by the sting to another pupil was assigned the botan japanese peony for a composition and he wrote the botan is large and beautiful to see but it has a disagreeable smell this should make as remember that what is only outwardly beautiful in human society should not attract us to be attracted by beauty only may lead us into fearful and fatal misfortune |