The boys and girls in these other countries do not go to school all of the time. They have holidays and vacations, and they play out of doors in the long summer days and the cold winter weather, just as you do.
You would enjoy playing with these children, even if you could not talk with them. I know you would like to fly big kites with the boys in Japan, or skate down the canals with the little Dutch boys.
And as for dolls! I am sure there are as many dolls in the world as there are little girls, and perhaps more, because some little girls have so many dolls that they cannot play with all of them.
You would like to play with the queer Chinese dolls in their beautiful silken robes, or with the Eskimo dolls that are carved out of bone and are dressed in furs and sealskin.
The Indian girl has wooden dolls dressed in bright blankets, with beads and feathers. The little French girl has a big wax doll, with blue eyes that shut when she lies down, and pop open when she sits up again. She wears beautiful gowns and big hats with feathers and ribbons.
Wouldn’t it be fun to have a dolls’ party to-day, if the dolls from all over the world could come?
These dolls might be dressed in furs, or silks, or blankets; they might be made of wax, or bone, or wood. But if they could talk they would tell you that the little girl who owns them loves them, and that, whether she lives in a snow hut or a tent in the desert, she has a loving father and mother and a happy childhood.
Are there many children in all the world?