"There's only one thing I can grow to be," said Take. "If I am very, very good, maybe I'll grow to be a mother-in-law sometime."
Just then they heard their Mother's voice calling them to supper.
It was very late for supper—it was really almost night.
The shadows in the little garden were growing long. The birds were chirping sleepily to each other in the wistaria vine. The iris flowers were nodding their purple heads to the little goldfish in the pond. Everything was quiet and still.
The Twins stopped to look at the little garden before they went in to their supper.
"Good night, pretty world," they said, and waved their hands.
THE END
SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS
"The Japanese Twins" is a story which gives a correct picture of the best phase of Japanese home life.
Like its predecessor "The Dutch Twins," the aim of this reader is to foster a just and discriminating respect for a foreign nation in whose history America has a keen interest.
Though the representatives of the Japanese race do not form an integral part of our national life, as those of the Dutch and many other nations do, yet the sympathy between the two countries is strong, and there is much to be gained by a knowledge of their manners, customs, and social ideals.