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Show BURMESE 6IML3 MARRY VOUNO. Are Considered of Age When They I 't Reach Thirteen. ' After 'be ears are pierced, at the age ,f 1.1. a llutmcse clrl begins to ililnk of n-nrrluge. Hhe Is free to choose her ov n husband, only ancient an-cient superstition decrees that she shall not inatry a man horn on a certain cer-tain liny of Ihe meek. Illssster IS supposed lo overwhelm the girl born on Wednesday, nml that tliero shall ' ' . he no uncertainty In the day of birth. ' , a child alnas Ims a nnme beginning with the loiter of the dny of tho week on which she wns horn. ,. After the wedding party have as- J semhled at the lirhle a home the band j f plnys and the guoth nit shout on the ' . ' Moor challlng. smoking, and eating 1 i . sweetmeats, and nfter a tlmo It Is '. ) iitinouuceil that the two young people , who nre ineuiiiinod hy nnmo are man ! j and wife. Hiirlt the first year of their married mar-ried life the young couple must live ' with Die wife's mother, and tho hue- ; hand must help to supiHirt bis mother- i In law. It is the wife who holds the ' purse and nianngort all household si peiidlture. ; t |