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LADY ADDRESSES LOCAL ROTARIANS.
A PEN PICTURE.
TELEGRAPH.
manship of Sir William Hornell.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932.
particularly interested in her clothes.
The agitator had his way, and In the name of religion, launched what was really political and Conversation is a little timited,
Anti-British movement. No Euro- and as with other Orientals con- sists mainly of searching questions pean, barring an occasional tourist, How ever goes up to pagoda plat- as to one's age, income, nize and rent of house, husband's occupa-forms in Burma, tion and number of children.
pond
Mistake for Decolts.
་་་
Burma Pagodas.
Burmu pagodas are quite dif- ferent from those of China. They are made of solid, ime-washed, brickwork. It is an act of merit to build a
but apparently a pagoda, there is no merit in repairing one that nother man has built. The result is that the landscape in dotted with little white pagodas, all built on the same pattern and mast of them falling into decay. Every English village has its church, but a Burma village can SCOTU. Count its pugoda by the
но The building of pagans is no muc much in vague that when convera- ing with a well-to-do elderly Bur-
manners man, it is ordinary assume that he has followed
"builder
We once had the experience at vilings, within twenty miles of An Interesting 'ren-picture' of
Mandalay, though rather off the beaten track, of being mistaken Burma and its people was given for decofte. We rode into
this by Mrs. Broadbent at yesterday's village early one morning to and Suncheon of the Hongkong itotary it apparently absolutely deserted Club, held at Messrs, Lan. Craw After a bit I caught sight of a ford's Restaurant under the Chair-face peeping out from behind the
of a house, then another from
11 sick of paddy, At length, a woman, braver than the reat, ventured out. As our talk with her was merely about buying money showed that we meant to one chickens, and the display of pay for them and not commandeer them, others soon emerged And gathered round me. All the able-fashion, and to address
1... Papatapa. Gudied men had gone off for some men, women, and children, in distance to cut wood, leaving the Pagodan." the village. They told us that on entehing sight of us a little din. tance of they really believed wo were decaits, and that was why they had hidden themselves.
In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Broadbent, the Chairman welcomed the following guests: Rotarian 1. E. Schroeder, of the Liege Club, Belgium. Mr. F. L. Cole, of tho American Consulate, Hongkong. Mr. S. Boxer, Warden of Morrison Hall, University Hostel, Mr. Elly Kadourie, of Marble Hall, Shang hai, Mr. 44. Pickering, of Lloyd's Register, Mr. A. C. Spence, Mr. E. Sydney, Australia, and Fromm, Wisconsin. U.S.A.
ad- Mr. Schroeder, in a brief dress, saith that he was engaged on a business trip, and extended the best wishes of his Club in Belgium to the Hongkong and Canton Clubs. len He remarked that there were Clubs in Belgium, which had only
million vight
indubitants. but Rotary was getting un very well
there.
Be referred to the Cart that four years ago he attended the Rotary Convention at Minneapolis and urged all those who had the oppor tunity of visiting the Convention not to miss it,
20 Years in Burma. in introducing Mrs. Broadbent, the Chairman explained that she and her husband had spent some 20 years the latter as a practising hnd in Burmah, and barrister,
Man- apent some three years in dalay. The Chairman remarked country that he had visited the and he hoped to be able to visit it again.
Mrs. Broadbent said: --When I was asked to address you it was strongly indicated that the mom better. frivolous could be the
itself rather to this mode of treatment as of all the races of the East the Borman is easily the most gay and light-hearted.
subject, perhaps, fends
He has been called the "Irish- man of the East," "Nature's gen- tleman," "A Inzy
Tutter."
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(Laughter). Having spent yvars in his country, and knowing him to some extent, I see the point of each of these descriptions. He is happy-go-lucky, methodical, apustual, unreliable and has no love for hard work. But he is a keen sense uf blessed with humour amf has very pleasant
PRADINIS.
of
Take a respectable village «lder, one who has known nothing cities and has had little intercourse with strangera.
EX
to
the him an of
The icquiring of merit is the keynote of Buddhism as practiced
in Burma. But there are less ex- pensive methods of acquiring me-
a pagoda. A it than building nonastery is less costly, or au open platform with roof over it.
traveller where any casual camp.
my
high
Galely and Colour. Arriving in Rangoon, from Indin,
Women Have No Soul. or Chimu you would be struck by
01 Kaiety and Those who cannot rise No the atmosphere endur. Kipling. comparing it
en place little bowls of drinking with din, describes
water at the corner of the rond. "elvatter, greener land.” His stay it noted it is the wife who al in the country
quite WAR
the ways keeps the bowls filled, but it briefeat, and in his fine littany | is the husband who gets the merit. song. "On the Road to Mandalay" She, poor thing, can never have a he has taken more than a poel's | soal as long as she remains Д fence with the gengruphy of the worms. Her only chance is to be horn some pleasant animal in the country, but it sounds uncommonly well.
next He and gradually work up There Is colour, galety and to be a man. "May you be born a laughter everywhere. It is posi-pig ur a woman in your next life" (ively infectious. Whereas in is a specially scathing form India the crowd is all clothed in abuse. white of avarying degre of cleanliness, and in China. black, turk blur and
grey, 11 Burman crowd is a regular kaleidoscope of cukur. An Indian crowd, 100, im almost entirely male, and is grave and serious. F Burma nobody
Wamen merious.
Wood
are
RA
of
A male Burman Ruddhist, how- ever, is not born with a soul. In order to acquire a soul' he must don the yellow robe and become a phongyi for some period of his life. In most cases this is for a few days only. Aboul the age of 15 Burman bay goes through a ceremony in which his head made "white" by shaving, which he assumes the yellow robe and goes into a monastery for a minimum period of five days.
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after
544417254 plentiful as men, moving about 1940 freely and unveiled, chattering, chadling with passers-by, laughing and smoking what Kipling called, her whacking white cheroof, nt made of tobacco but of chopped
Thousands of Monks. up aromatle
a white Abre wrapping. Both
The yellow rule is much in evid men and women
clothed in
In Man- ence all over Burma. Burma dalay coloured skirts of bright
alone there are many silk. They live up to the slogan thousands of these monks. The "Encourage home industry."
universal kindness ineuleated by not the Buddhist religion does stem to draw the line at shelter- The children are miniature
King criminals, and 1 fear that many plens their parents, complete
man who should be in gaol with white cberout or cigarette.poses as a holy man under the to yellow roles. It is a fact, at any Anything that is old enough
rate, that when any man is wanted by the Police they generally go und comb out the monasteries.
Young Smokers,
walk in old enough to amoke.
The Harman is small of alature,
ani sloppy-eyed yellow-skinned, and distinctly Mongolian. They are quick and active of body and fair the young Burman is quite à athlete. He has shown extraor-
for footbal diary aptitu
necer unly,
Tukker. Many a team
Rangoon years nigga, Brimol boys, none of them over 18, played a draw with a regimental team that had won the Army Cup in India.
Excitable Race.
AL daylight, early nworning atreums of there yellow-robed igures wend their way through town and village, with large black hequer, begging bowls hung round Their necks and grasped with the two hands. Into these bowls the faithful empty out the bottoms of time rice-pots and
curry puna most unholy mess the contents of these bowls must be! But it is probably reserved for the humbler guests of the monastery! Theore tically, a monk must not buy food for his is a vow of poverty.
Food Difficulty Overcome. A good Buddhist must take no are. This embodies considerable Burman, complications for the who is no
like the vegetarian
Is to cat Hindu. His solution what he finds and to ask no ques-
. to
Simple Courtesy. He will receive you. B casual traveller, with wonderful simple
The Burmans are excitable and courtesy, with none of the over effusiveness or cringing sometimes and of dramas, dances and shows similar of all kinds. Up to a point they displayed by Indians In circumstances, He neither asserts i are courageous. They are callotin nor humbles himself. He apreads as regards emusing Buffering
of in crimes his best mat for you to sit upon others and prone and does not apologise for the violence. Decoitry, that is. rob- abscure of
of bery with violence by armed men chair, which,
him. in hutuds of five
is of never used by
or more, course. The Burmese word for it iş common occurrence, and the per- Kalataing meaning the "thing the centage of convictions for violent foreigner sits on."
erime is far higher in Burma than any other province of India.
Anti-British Movement.
Dislike Interproters,
the
began
re-
tions.
Fish enters largely into their dietary in a particularly objection- All kinds of fish are
hot
Some little knowledge of language is, of course, necessary. Sedition in Burma was no doubtable form. if you want to establish friendly stirred up in the first instance buried in the ground with a large quantity of salt, and it is a terrible relations, for they have a strange agitators in India. They
grdeal to be stuck in a railway dislike of being talked to through by working on the Barman's an interpreter, more especially iftiginus feelings, telling him that siding near a truck full of this he is an Indian. There
the Westerners were alighting his composition, especially
his weather. ten. religion when they visited wonen. trace of shyness in the
their You would think they ought to Purdah is unknown here. They pagodas without removing have always mixed freely with the shoes, though the older homes of be grateful to the fishermen. Not a bit of it! He is considered the men. They are extremely friendly Bhuddiam, Ceylon and Japan, hnd
most low-down fellow, almost as and seem to take a real pleasure never insisted on the removal of
shoes at their sacred shrines.
(Continued on Page 11.) in meeting a white woman, and are
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