Show I WOMEXS RIGHTS IX IltliaiAII I I It is not generally known that there I is an oriental country where the women enjoy the absolute freedom of I person and property and where they stand on an absolute equality with men The law the religion and the customs of that country secure them In this liberty That country is Burmah In Burmah girls and boys share equally in all inheritance Women retain their property after marriage The husband cannot control it nor has he any legal proprietorship over the wife Most of the women of the humblest class of peasantry can read and write and they are thoroughly acquainted with household work They can all read and sew and embroider em-broider and are adepts at cooking Education however is not quite as advanced among the women ast among the men because women cannot can-not go to the monasteries where boys are taught the higher branches But they make up for this by doing most of the trading the retail trade transacted being practically in the hands of the women The girls never become nuns it is stated Such women as do take the vows are old persons who have become weary of ordinary life In Burmah there is an absence of that feeling which is commonly called chivalry Men do not praise women in word elevating them in theory as angels but then they do not treat them as slaves nor as dolls The two I sexes are equal so far as such equality is possible and yet the oddity pictured before the American people as the consequence of womens progress and popularly known as the new woman has no existance in Burmah Still it is declared that the Burmese nation accords to its women more absolute liberty than any nation I na-tion under the sun I |