Excerpt from Little People of Asia

There are many queer things in this big world of ours, but there's nothing queerer, I think, than the way children live in different parts of it.

I have always wondered how the little Turks pass away their time, what they play with, and how they feel, bundled up like rolls of dry-goods. I have great curiosity to know how it would feel to be a China girl or boy, and have feet three inches long, or the hair all shaved off the head, and I've tried to fancy how it would seem to live in a tent like a Tartar youngster, never knowing this week where one will be the next, and thinking a horse is the finest thing in the world.

Well, being so interested in the ways of little people, I have been for many years trying to find out about them.

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