Show where women are queens not even in america are women such absolute monarchs as in heathen burmah there in law and custom woman Is if on absolutely the same footing as man in spite of thisie this it is claimed no women are more womanly than the burmese women whose good sense enables them to perceive the line where they ought to stop in the higher classes a woman has property of her own and manages it herself in the lower daises classes she always has a trade and runs run her business on her own responsibility the sexes choose their own occupations and it is curious to see the men sometime sewing and embroidering embroider ing wh while ile the women have nearly all the retail trade of the island on their hands just as the men farm their lands the women run their business they do not hire out to others but trade on their own account and with the exception of being in the silk or cloth business it does docs not interfere with their home life the bazaar lasts but three hours each day and the woman has ample time for her home duties after that is over the burmese womans comans home life Is to her the most important thing and she could not neglect it still her bustness business ness life has a strong influence on her it broadens rier ner views and teaches her things she bhe could not learn in the narrow confines of four walls chicago record |