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Show t'lgai Saioklng utrla. The Burmese girls are very bright, and good beggars, too, and when one steps up to you with a six-inch cigar in her mouth and her comely person swathed in garments the colors of which would rival Joseph's coat and off ers you her wares, the only thing for a man to do is to buy, and buy at once. The Burmese girls are noted, too, for their independence, an they walk about the streets and through the bazars ba-zars and around the pagodas with a big cigar in their mouths, with a much , freedom as do the men in most countries. coun-tries. Their dress is more picturesque, too, than the Arabs. They use the very brightest red, yellow and pink silks in their adornment, and the prevailing fashion runs to scarfs more tiian to dresses, and bands of ribbons more than to jackets. |