The tables they have are very low.  It would not do for them to have high tables, as they sit on the floor.

They have no knives or forks.  They eat with spoons, and they use chopsticks, as the Chinamen do.

They have no water-pipes in their houses.  In the towns men carry water in pails.  They have no gas.  For light at night they use candles.

They have only one kind of coin.  It is a small piece of copper.  It has a square hole in the middle.  They put these coins on strings and carry them around their necks.  It would take many such coins to make a dollar.

[Illustration:  Korean Money.]

There are farms in Korea, where they grow wheat, rice, rye, tobacco, cotton, watermelons, and many kinds of fruit.

If you were in Korea, you would think it the strangest country in the world.  They do many things very unlike the way we do them.  With us bright-colored things are worn by women.  In Korea the men wear bright colors.  They have a funny way of selling eggs there.  They place ten eggs end to end in a row, and put straw around them.  Then they tie strings around the straw between the eggs.  This is called a stick of eggs.  When people go to buy eggs, they ask for one or two sticks, or as many as they wish.  One stick of eggs costs less than five cents.

[Illustration:  A Stick of Eggs.]

Instead of a president they have a king.  The king lives in the largest town.  There is a thick, high wall all around this town.  There are gates in the wall, and these are shut at night.  After the gates are shut, no one can get in or out until they are opened in the morning.

The people show very great respect for the king.  When they go to speak to him they throw themselves down on their faces before his throne.  The people love their country very much.  They think it is the most beautiful country in the world.

INDIA.

How would you like to go to school at six o’clock in the morning?  That is the time many children go to school in India.  India is a large country in Asia.  The children stay in school till nine o’clock.  Then they go home for breakfast, and go back to school at ten.  At two o’clock they go home for dinner.  They go back again at three to stay till evening.  You will think that this is a long time to be at school.

[Illustration:  Hindoo Children at School.]

In some of the schools they have no desks or chairs, but the boys and girls sit on the floor.  In other schools they have long tables instead of desks.

They do not learn their letters as we do.  The teachers write five letters in sand on the floor.  Then the boys and girls write the letters in the sand.  They write the letters many times, until they know them well.  Then the teachers write five more letters, and so on until the children know all the letters.  When they can make the letters in the sand, they next learn to write them on palm leaves with pens made of wood.  The last thing they do is to write them on slates and on paper.