| Show UP ThE W AID ID Y i ANID BURMA I BY GLEN MILLER BR Upper Bur Burma Oct OeL Si 21 P I lUll am ROt not p prone to carp ea ril at the of to foreigners when we e have haft little to boa bout or of missives one Often enough have I 1 thoa thought ht at t home hom of the utter abs of the stuff MUt In hotel roo u hoa house e I If literally literal I followed a traveler ha have to turn pocketbook k and other to tIM the the mont lit to God aDd ad good Jael acEt to at It beck So on UlI at C th W the regu regulations la lations nar Ut to those ChON Who make ke them themI I have ban already of oC the rule roe In hotels or of Maea 0 the Portuguese e gambling to that shall 11 not sorry carry n nf all any of oC the furniture Here Hen HenIn HereIn In the I largest hotel In Burma Durma I Aad the sign In the o of th the hotel Speak lowly please On the var various r ious all U the way war up Ul to the fourth story is S the admonition Walk Valk slowly plesse a well known American notice I am SOlD ng to thin th sign to the pro going up these step faster than a walk walle will be lined fined live rupees ru Womans r righta h seem to have round found a permanent loci place In Burma The women whore who are a fresh and nd ra rather lot ot run the at af 11 faire of the country They do the business and I am lit tol told h husbands sen n nI lire re a henpecked kH lot Jot and g gen I ly afraid or of their wives The wont wom women en smoke Wg big stocky cigars that look tor all the world Uk like th the Fourth of July we send Mild up Frequently these lire ten aches Ion long and too loo big to get t bite the mouth the woman Tte her U lip OWl over half hale of o f I the end and MICka I am not referring to old chi women omen or a few re women but to torIa girls rIa and alike and In fact act to tile the whole feminine Burmese world J or of Crows Crow I never saw o many a In lest feat country They Are In III droves and nd In pans pain on OD ho on tree inthe In Ute the rice nce folds on the Idol ery where their caw III Ia the riot or of the morning and the last Jut of oC the evon ing W We have an b been s at Ute the Ol of bird lit Hr In n Chi China Japan the i t nd th the Malay 1 1 nut But here we have h crown erow to belt b t the band We struck Burm on a religious day and nd found Cound all the pagoda pago d da all n the and the various Hd deed w to ause the Yon ven vengeance pance of the gods going at full Cull bl bloat t Th The Burmese girls gAr who are good looking naturally and made more at attractive attractive by their bright silk robes rob were an all out In gala attire closing clo Lent In a wy way to court the favor Cavor ot of the gods and at the same tI time win the attentions or of the young men meR With several thousand satire I thelong the long stain or of the principal and to do my share toward winning favor of the rod the I girls rl n First I pounded the belie bella a that attracts t the attention or of the pre pr aiding deities ThoR Then I I h t several duen dOHn candles and pa pasted ted some gold goldleaf goldleaf leaf on the pagoda The Burman not resent re your taking part In the thc or making all the noise you the tite no noise attracta the gods oos Over In Japan the worshiper always cia clap hi his handa to draw the attention of the deity but here her pounding the belt II takes first place ac a means of at notice A I t one hue passed ed around the world and seen Men the part played by religion each oh trying to e the world work and all 1111 con consuming suming or of money mon In trying to convert the others there I le consid considerable erable room for Cor reflection But I 1 am not writing or worrying Hut about religion The pagodas average about twenty to the mile as 1111 we steam day alter after day up the and gives effect to the land Speaking or of the It if anyone had mentioned the name bo be before fore lIng leaving homo home I would have bave put it down dou as the name or of an chief over on the Uintah ro Yet hero It Is n a river as big as 1111 the Mis the source or of which has lla never been reached by white men It Is wide mUddY and haa 1111 CAving banks banke alter after the manner of the old JU It runs through a country nt na rich as the central states populated by an ane easy e going happy indolent population tion The rho Durman Burman earns earn the the tho mans spends spend It IL Being VI very creatures creature a lot Jot or Burmese women have bave picked since out for Cor hu husbands bands the tho works ork The Tho blend Is a one and ro results very satis satisfactorily Such or of the children Mare no are bo boys s are arc brought up n as tall and aL Such as are aro girls are ara reared as Burmese The Burmese are aro about of tho complexion of tho American Amer Amerlean lean ican mulatto Everyone goes goOl bare barefooted barefooted footed The walton waiters At my mv table wear tur turbans bans bane with a crt crest and have red and amI black sashes Mahe the waist I would take tAko them for tor members of tiro tho thoL L Legion ton of Honor but for Cor the fact that they go barefooted Men len And women alike wear jewelry In profusion As Ipen I Ipen pen a 1 o wom woman n site me who ha three rings In her nose two from her oars half a dOMn arm bracelets bracelet A heavy bolt bott or of liver encircling her waist tour four brace braco bracelets lets around her ankles and rings ring on three tON of er each cach foot Nor Is this jewelry of A cheap variety ty but of r solid geld and sliver silver with rubles ruble sapphires emeralds and diamonds The Tho holes holos In her oars are arc largo targe enough to pus pass a aI cigar I gAr She Sho Is one ot of the wealthy ot of JUr O The ceremony I 1 Iam am told Is a great family event vont cor corresponding responding with the formal debut or of n a ayoung young woman In at home homp I In my last Jat letter I toll 1 of I m my new nf W servant senant JUdgment ot of this i was WIlS reserved and the tho decree 18 yet rendered but the tho opinions or of the tho court ourt are developing rapidly Sam tailed failed to turn up at ship time theother the theother other day and I jumped hastily to the conclusion lon that he had decamped with some somo fifty rupees or of deponents money mone The hotel manager however assumed the tho role or of Sherlock Holmes and we round found Sam dead drunk In bed bedat bedat at a lodging house Having Invested In this sort or of furniture I decided to play the game a little further and so 80 got him on ship where In the tho course or of fo hours ho recovered his equilibrium even if Ie h he did not re Fe recover cover my mone money In n a art talk with me he confessed his shame promised to do db It no more and said he would be n a good boy ever more SoI So SoI I am giving him another as I 1 have learned that get getting getting ting drunk Is a alth servants who like Sam come from Cram Madras Ono One cannot be too hard chard on a servant who nets acts as guide Interpreter valet alet and lecturer for the I munificent sum flum of 30 cents a day line Big nl I On m my WAY up the river I fell In with the manager or of the tho Burma company compan a corporation worth twenty or thirty millions of dot dol dollars tars lars and the tho leading rival concern of the tho Standard on Oil company gen gentleman gentleman Is from Warren Pa lives like Uke a prince and hM has gathered around him about Americans These have the best bost the country affords Knowing the oil business s from training In the tho Pennsylvania fields they run field operations I ws was gratified to learn from the British captain that these thelle 1 Americans sUck stick close to one another and got the best going Sticking to together gether has not been beon an American trait In the tar far oa east t and It Is gratifying to find the exception here We e wore asked by the American manager and his hili wife to come ashore and be their guests for a week We were also of offered offered a magnificent tiger skin which a native woman brought down to the boat as a pre present eDt to him Under the these e circumstances I 1 had to decline both generous offers On retching head headquarters Quarters we e learned that one or of the American superintendents had been bitten by a RuMen viper that day and was not expected to live The viper and cobra both virulent rep tiles abound In great numbers and are area aren n a source or of constant danger The on oil wells are so thick that the derricks look like a grost groat forest While the tho British government will not allow Americans to acquire or In any way Own the on oil fields the British h companies com Are dependent upon American skill for their operation Get an EnS Living Burma J le so IfO rIch In soil lIOn so 80 prolific In rice corn anti and fr fruit lt that the Bur Burman Burman man gets an easy living Jiving with precious little work And that work as 8 before stated Is t done by br the woman while the mAn lice around and sleeps I Everybody chews the betel which is 18 isa a combination or of nut tobacco lime I And doves cloves a product that makes the I teethe tetha as red as a beet and the tips t blAck Children here go naked till six or seven years of oC Age and anI every boy 1 tattooed from knees to waist either blue blAck or red As the majority of people go about half haIr naked the of ef effect teet of this tattooing Is fa striking So painful Is tattooing upon the sensitive parts part of the thighs and knees thAt boys bos uSUAl usually take opium to stifle the pain while the these e portions of the body are tattooed I Rith the I Since arriving In the east I have come into frequent contact with the and women who have reached the utmost points or of and gone beyond thorn theta workers work amon among the hid hunters the tho denizens of the jungle the wild tribesmen or of the hili I am not die to say MY anything on A topic so 80 big au as this even ven It If I hAd sufficient data to form accurate conclusions My I estimate or of the Ule has been vastly by meeting him In Inthe inthe the field t k and seeing what ht he is 18 actual actually ly doing The Dunnan Burman field Is III almost entirely under the American Baptist denomination Apparently the tho attitude atti attitude tude of th the English government I is that of allowing the American n to edu educate catt cate And train the nil natives Ues while Britain gets the advantage of It French missionaries ml In China are arc die dle by the home government from Crom teaching the Chinese French FrenchE E Everywhere however the missionary Is 18 teaching the natives English I visited the Mormon head headQuarters headquarters Quarters In Tokio Japan and found the tiro young mon man heart and soul Into Two or of the young oung mission missionaries aries are so 80 fascinated with Japanese life Ure that they 88 say they the would like to spend pend the rc rest t or of their days In Japan Speaking or of I had as Aa a guest aboard the tho boat tonight one who has hall traveled by b native boat down the tho river from the moun mountains near Tibet a country called under rule or of II a native prince He had not eaten a European me meal t for over a year ear And had only seOn four white whit men In the whole po On his W way out or of the one or of his attendants attendAnt was VU attacked by R a tiger the hand cru crushed hed scalp calp torn off and breast lAid open Another At Attendant attendant was attacked bitten And killed b by a the only known reptile which will pursue man and for Cor whose who poison there Is no antidote an antidote This has b a sad er taking back baek to America or of ora ofa a young oung man from Crom Indiana IndiAn who rho has h become II a raving maniac here from jungle fevel Cever In spite or of these ox AX he says MS he be will immediately ly return to his hili field fJeld because he baa It lie be become come very ery fond Cond of the people Co Guests u us lit at table on the Il steamer mer was wasa It a Burmese attorney from Mandalay black u as a coal but whose wh two sons eons are attending Cambridge university a Scotchman who h has been n In Upper Burma for years and Is married to a Burmese Bunne e woman Oman and a Chinaman who Is at the head or of the school system having Ita native schools In charge Truly travel In the east cast brings bring one Into odd companion companionships ships We Vo lire are clo close e to the great ruby mines Of the world which are some fifty miles Inland at t It a place called A number or of people are bound thither and I find one ene man coming out with a quantity of stones which he hp has taken from the ruby earth So IIII far as a appe appearances go I would not give ghe him 20 0 cents cent for tho tot lot but he tells mo thAt a certain one of the stones s when cut will be worth 1080 rupees 1000 Having lived In a country where hotel assays of ore tAken from hotel Mopes often oCten 1180 per ton hotel values I am ama a little lUle skeptical about the value ot of theM stones MOnes on the basis named omen In Bathing Some scores or of women and girls are bathing It In the river about fifty feet from our boot The unconscious ease eBe with which they come down to shore divest dh them themselves of their clothing und and slip Into the water Is In contrast with our own perturbation as al we sit on deck In plain view watching them From to Mandalay a d dis distance tance or of mlle miles by river I slept Ina In Ina a cAbin which the present king or of England occupied four yeast ago char dur charIng during Ing his voyage OKe up the My trunks wore were brought tI to the boat by four slender ender boys abIa naked each carrying a heavy trunk on top of hi hit head and all decorated with the usual a assortment of brace blace bracelets lets and sundry other jewelry The river Is fa much mt like the th Nile the overflow ot of high water de depositing d po positing several voral Inch Inches of silt lIt the theland theland land which makes Ideal soil eoll 41 WA WAter water ter hs has just JUIt begun to recede so that we see lee the tho farmers With their water buffalo burtalo stirring up the soil using n prongs of wood for tor plo plows The wagons or rather car carts are ponder ou one eT every part of oC the vehicle ble being In tied together with wh bamboo strips and not a nail used In lt its construction The moro more the wheels wheel creak the mo mothe more the Burman likes then them I feel as II If I were living el eighteen hundred years ago until I glance at the chair on which I sit alt made for his royal high highness ness neM King George Then I reel feel I am amIt amit It |
