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A PEN PICTURE.
TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932,
particularly interested in hor clothes.
con-
Conversation is a little limited, and as with other Orientals sists mainly of searching questions as to one's. age, income, aize rent of house, husband'a tion and number of children.
Mistake for Decolts.
and occupa-
The agitator had his way, and in the name of religion, launched what was really a political and Anti-British movement. No Euro- pean, barring an occasional tourist, now ever goes up to pagoda plat- forms in Burma.
Burma Pagodas.
Barma pagodas are quite dif-
We once had the experience at ferent from those of China. They village, within twenty miles of
are made of solid, lime-washed, brickwork. It is an act of merit An Interesting pen-pleture of benten track, of being mistaken Mandalay, though rather off the
to build a paguda, but apparently Burma and its people was given for decolta. We rasle Into
thero IN no merit In repairing one this by Mrn. Broadbent at yesterday's village early one morning to find reaut
that another man has built. The luncheon of the Hongkong Rotary apparently absolutely deserted dotted with little white pagodas, that the landscape 18 Club, held at Mesara. Lane Craw. After a bit I caught night of all built on the same pattern and face peeping out from behind the most of them falling into decay. post of a house, then another from behind
Every English village has Its 21 Mack of paddy, length,
church, but a Burma village can a woman, braver than the chur
the Acore. rest, ventured out.
count ita pagodas by As our talk The building of pagodan with her was merely about buying much in vogue that when convers
in Bu! me chickens, and the display of ing with well-to-do derly Bur money showed that we meant to
man, it is ordinary manners to pay for them and not them, others soon emerged
commandeer
assume that he has followed the gathered round us. All the able Papataga,
fashion, and to address him as
i.e.. bodied men had gone off for Home Pag
"builder
of distance to cut wood, leaving the
ford's Restaurant under the Chair. manship of Sir William Hornett.
In addition to Mr., and Mfrs Broadbent, the Chairman welcomed Rotarian the following guests: L. E. Schroeder, of the Liege Club, Belgium, Mr. F. L. Cale, of the American Consulate, Hongkong, Mr. S. Boxer, Warden of Morrison Hall, University Hostel, Mr. Elly
At
and
The acquiring of merit Is the Kadoorie, of Marble Hall, Shang men, women, and children, in hal, Mr. G. Pickering, of Lloyd's the village. They told us that on
keynote of Buddhism as practiced Register, Mr. A. C. Spence, catching sight of us a llifle din Burma. But there are icas ex- Sydney, Australia, and Mr. E. tunce off they really believed we Fromm, Wiscermin, U.S.A.
were decolta, and that w why they had hidden themselves,
Mr. Schroeder, in a brief nd- dress, said that he was engaged na
business trip, and extended the bout wishes of his Chib in Belgium to the Hongkong and Canton Clubs. He remarked thint there were ten Clubs in Belgium, which had only
inhabitants, eight militi
but Rotary was geiting on very well
there,
He referred to the fact that four years ago he attended the Rotary Convention at Minneapolis and urged all those who had the oppor- the Convention tunity of visiting
pot to miss it.
20 Years In Burma.
In introducing Mrs. Broadbent, the Chairman explained that #he and her husband had spent nome 20 years the latter as a practising barrister, in Burmah.. and hind Man spent some three years in dalay. The Chairman retuarked that he had visited the country and he hoped to be able to visit it again.
A
A
ensive methods of acquiring me- rit than building a pagoda. monastery is less costly, or an open platform with a roof over it. where any casual traveller
amp,
may
Gaiety and Colour. Arriving in Rangoon, from India for Chin you would be struck by
Women Have No Soul. the atmosphere of galety anit Those who cannot rise so high olur. Kipling, comparing can place little bowls of drinking with India, describe if IM
water at the corner of the road. "elenner. greener land." His stay | Be it noted it is the wife who al in the country W2184
wnya keeps the bowls filled, but it briefeat, and in his fine littany is the husband who gets the merit. song, "On the Rend to Manlalag" She, poor thing, can never have a he has taken more than a poet's soul as long as she remains country, but it sounds uncommonly Hicence with the geography of the well,
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In Burma. nobody seems serious. Women Arc д freely and unveiled, chattering. plentiful as men, muving about chafing with passers-by, laughing Mrs. Broadbent said:-When I and amoxing what Kipling called, was asked to address you it was "her whacking white Chernot strongly indicated that the more not made of tobacco but of chopped frivolous I could be the better. up aromatle Wood in n white
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A male Borman Buddhist, how- ever. is not born with a sout, In order to acquire a sout he must don the yellow robe and become a hie pongui for some period of life. In most cases this is for feve day's only. About the age of 16 Burman boy goes through a erremony in which his hend
is
which he assumes the yellow robe made "white" by shaving. after
and goes into a monastery for a minimum period of five days.
Thousands of Monks.
The yellow robe is much in evid- ence all over Burma. In Man- thousands of these monks. dalay
are alene there
many The universal kindness inculcated hy the Buddhist religion does ΠΟΣ
AL
He has been called the "Irish- man of the East," "Nature's gen- |
to draw the line at shelter- tleman."
Jazy rotter."--
ing criminals, and I fear that many (Laughter). Having spent 20
a man who should be in gaol years in his country, and knowing
posen as a holy man under the him to some extent, I see the point
yellow robe. It is a fact, at any of each of them descriptions, He
rate, that when any man is wanted is happy-go-lucky, unmethodical, The Burman Is small of stature, by the Police they generally go and unpunctual, unreliable and has no sluppy-eyed and yellow-skinned, comb out the monasteries. love for hard work. But he is and distinctly Mongolian. They
morning daylight, early blessed! with keen
are quick and active of body and streams of humour and, has very pleasant the young Barman is quite a fair figures wend their way
these yellow-robed through athlete. He has shown extraor-wn and village, with large black limary
aptitu
for football- lacquer, begging bowls hung round soever only. Hot rugger. Many their necks and grasped with the yents ago. a team 01 Itangoon hands. Into these bowls the school boys, none of them over 18. faithful empty out the bottoms of played a draw with a regimental the rie-pots and curry pay- team that bad won the Army Cup in India.
Planners.
ог RUNAO
Take a respectable village elder. one who has known nothing of eities and has bad fittle intercourse with stranZZERA,
Simple Courtesy.
Excitable Race.
tu
most unholy mess the contents of these bowls must be! But it is probably reserved for the humbler guests of the monastery! There- tically, a monk must not buy food for his is a vow of poverty.
Food Difficulty Overcome.
Ho will precive you, a casual traveller, with wonderful simple courtesy, with none of the over
The Burmans are excitable and effusiveness or cringing sometimes fond of dramas, dancds and shows displayed by Indiana in similar of all kinds Up to a point they circumstances. He neither.usserts are courageous. They are callous nor humbles himself. ile spreads as regards causing suffering his best mat for you to sit upon others and prome to crimes
A gond Buddhist must take no and does not apologize for the violence. Decuitry, that is, rob- life. This embodies considerable Abse of a chair, which, of bery with violener by armed men complications for the Burman.
used by him. in bands of five or more, is of The Burmese word for it is common occurrey, and the per- Kaletaing meaning the "thing the centage of convictions for violent foreigner sits on."
erine is far higher in Burma than in any other province of India.
Anil British Movement.
course, is
never
the
who is no vegetarian
like
the Hindu. His solution to ent what he finds and to nsk no ques-
Linna.
Fish enters largely into their dietary in a particularly objection- buried in the ground with a large quantity of salt, and it is a terrible ordent to be stuck in a railway siding near a truck full of this in hot composition, especially weather.
Dislike Interpreters, Some little knowledge of language is, of course, necessary, Sedition in Hurma was no doubtable form. All kinds of fish are If you want to establish friendly stirred up in the first instance by relations, for they have a strange agitators In India. They began dislike of being talked to through by working on the Burman's re- an interpreter, more especially if ligious feelings, telling him that
Indian. he is 4
There is
no the Westerners were alighting his trace of shyness in the nen. religion when they visited his
women. Purdah is known here. They pagadas without removing their have always mixed freely with the shoes, though the older homes of men. They are extremely friendly Bhuddism, Ceylon and Japan, had and seem to take a real pleasure never insisted on the removal of in meeting a white woman, and are shoes at their sacred shrines.
SALESMAN SAM
(SAY, SAM, I HAVEN'T SEEN
OUR MASCOT SINCE OUR LAST GAME- GO SEE (F YA CAN FIND HIM -
THASS SO? WHERE
IS HE
You would think they ought to be grateful to the fishermen. Not a bit of it! He is considered the most low-down fellow, almost na (Continued on Page 11.)
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