Show HAPPY CHILDREN OP OF BURMAH uncontrolled lad they riot in sheep sheer joy of life says writer burmese burniese children are the spoilt children of the world according to V C scott oconnor in his book tho silken east he sa s 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 of 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 where they play t game of ninepins with tho the great seeds of a jungle creeper in the monastery where they lie upon the floor and scream out their lessons with lusty usty delight in the river in which they splash and plunge beffie they can walk at tho play where they crawl about among tho the feet of the prima donna and tho posing kings and at the pagoda where they hold flowers before them with faces screwed up to gravity with laughter pent up behind it and 49 there be any dispute about tho the good looks of their elders there can bo be none as to the prettiness of burmese children 1 |