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NATIVE CUSTOMS

IN BURMA.

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degraded nas grave-diggers who are always segregated.

A

Fish "Too Wet?" traveller

once asked in telligent questions of a fishermans as to how he reconciled the catch- ing of fish with the tenets of his religion. The fisherman explained that he thought the fish were get ting ton wet so he took them out of the water and laid them on the bank to dry!

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9. 1932.

THREE KINDS OF LOVE.

(Continued from Page 3.) enreer with Earl, or anything, by that time."

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Small dining tables were set out on a tiled terrace, and there were pool and a fountain and a smooth green lawn, and away in the dis tance-Mount Hoodi plenmed warm pink against a blue sky.

Ann brought her eyes hack from the mountain to look again at Phil, ncross the table from her. He was handsome and wise and strong and smiling, and he loved her. She smiled, too, and said, "Phil, dear; I adore this place. However did you find it, away out here?"

"A friend of mine told me about

There's dancing, Inter.

Fresh milk in never to be con- sumed by Burmans because it de prives the calf of its proper food, but Nestle's condensed milk sella better in Burma than anywhere else in the world. It is an elegant and suitable offering to make to side, if we enre to stay."

"Let's! But can we? It has been so long since we have danced. How long 7"

monk.

Interesting Triben.

Near

Ita

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Living it Burma,

"Too long. We do get into ruis. borders, mostly in the hills, thereSort of forget about good times to Care some quite Interesting peoples be had, on't we?"

and tribes. The most numeroUS "Perhaps. But during the win- are the Karens but they are now fer there isn't much to do. We largely settled in the plains. They don't care for pablie dances." are atendier and more persevering

"K".

But we could go places than the Burmans, Jess volatile and dine, as we're doing this even- and less lucht-hearted. In dress fag, and dance, if and habits they are now hardly distinguishable from the Burmans, With the Burman the missionary has made litth headway, though the former is quite polite 'to him would-be converter and pleased to dieuss Christianity, but it rarely geta læyond that.

Gift for Music.

or

" what?" she naked, but shel continued smiling, because she did not know what Phil had begun to say, "If you had the proper things to wear to the better places, weren't always getting dinner at home, ur too tired."

"If we'd plan," he said. W will, after this. We'll have good times this summer, and we'll keep The Karens, on the other hand, them up next winter. What about are largely Christians. They havet. You Beautiful?” a good deal of folk-lore of their GWT. In this there la story of a white man with a book under his arm who was to teach them the truth, so they recognised the mis- gionary at sight. They have great gift for music and have taken readily to the European Their voices ILTO often really beautiful, and Karen choirs will render sacred music, not only hymns, 8 well as any Western chair.

style.

I do not mean that they only sing sarred music. I have heard Harry Lauder's sungs given every, ounce of their value by an educated Karen.

Women's Faces Tattooed.

In the North-West

ar the Chin who fatton the faces of their women on marriage, so as to make them less attractive to raiding tribes. should think

they achieve their

object as the things lonk most repulsive. Their neighbours, the Kuchins, blacken ken the teeth of their women with the same object. The Kachin was re- vruited

I during the war by way of rexperiment. He showed himself a very smart, bright little soldier, very like the Gourkah in appear ance. The same cannot be said of the Burman who will not take soldiering seriously.

To be Continued)

guidance of British officera,

"Sons of the Lake."

An interesting small Shan tribe gur l'ort Stedman are the people who row with one leg. They are known as Inntha, that fa, sons of the Inke. They are lake dwellers, their houses being built on pilea over the water. Their staple diet ing. An Imtha, when he goes solo fish. obtained mostly by apear- fishing in a small dug-out, finds he can see the fish and spear them To more quickly by standing up. propel hia craft, he curls one leg around the paddle which is fixed in a rowlock, steadying the paddle with one hand while the other

the Krasps method is employed in larger dug- spear. The same

outs with several rowers.

Bont Racing, Itont racing is a very favourite amusement travel very fast and they gel quite with them. Canoes

a long and

stroke, powerful Crews of men and Women have and Rangoon to race against each been brought down to

to Mandalay other for the entertainment of Royal and Vice-Regal visitors.

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not nearly exhausted. these tribes, but I do not want to exhaust you. would find Burma a fascinating J 4 sure you country, and it is not so very diffi-

what I have said may have roused your interest in it and its people.—

(Applause).

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The Palauras, a small tribe, seem to admire a swanlike neck in their women, as they bind their necks round with brass rings.cult to get to from here. I hope adding to these from time to time, till a most formidable brass collar is formed. It is said that when a missionary once persuaded ä Palaung convert to remove her rings, the poor woman cnuld not hold up her head without them, so

In expressing the Club's thanks fully to find some passage of the to Mrs. Broadbent for her address, address which he could they had to be replaced,

Rotarian LC. F. Bellamy remarked but had found none. He referred The Shans, living in the Shan that he had spent three years in to the recent round-table confer- states, are divided into a good Burma bul it was so long ago that ence, and stated that he had every many triben,

They are ruled by when he went to a pugoda he did confidence in the loyalty of Burma Tag-bugs, the equivalent of a not have to take off his shoe. Heto Great Britain in the event of pelty rajah in India, under the added that he had listened enregaining her independence.

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