Eureka Reporter | 1905-01-20 | Page 2 | Happy Children of Burmah

HAPPY CHILDREN OF uncontrolled they riot in sheer joy of life saye writer burmese children ere the spoilt ahll dren of the world according to V 0 acott 0 connor in his book the silk en east he says that they are never punished by their parents who universally ver sally adore them they grow up in the open air with all the grace 0 young unchecked life the sheer joy of life abides in them says he and they seem to live perpetually at play in the village street fehere they play a game of ninepins with the great seeds of a jungle creeper in the monastery where they lie upon ther 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 crawl about among the feet of the prima donna and the posing hinge and at the pagoda where they bold flowers before them with faces screw ed up to gravity with laughter pent up behind it and it there be any dispute about the good looks of their elders there can be cone as to the of burmese children