Show HAPPY CHILDREN OF BURMAH uncontrolled they riot in sheer joy of life says writer burmese children are the spoilt spoil t chil dren ot of the world according to V C scott 0 connor in his book the silk en on east he says that they are never punished by their parents who uni verbally ver sally adore them they grow up in the open air with all the grace of young unchecked life the sheer joy of life abides in them says he and they seem to live perpetually at play la in the village street where they play a game ot of ninepins with the great seeds of a jungle creeper in the monastery where they lie upon the floor and scream out their lessons with lusty delight in the river in which they splash and plunge before they can walk at the play where they their crawl about among the feet of the prima donna and the posing kings rings and at the pagoda where they hold flowers before them with faces screw ed up to gravity with laughter pent up behind it and it if there be any dispute about the good looks of their elders there can be none as to the prettiness of burmese children |