Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-23

NAn0NINI AN|l NH.7l'H'iahAN-.
mANDALAY.-Come with me 10
MI the bazars and have a look at
V the girls. We are IN the old
capital Of Burma, walking
through immense buildings filed with
etaus. I'm which hundreds Of laughing
women are sitting upon platforms with
goods piled around them. Here is one
ceiling silks. She has the most delicate
pinks. blues, ycllows and greens. all
-t-iucd with some other gay color.
They are Intended for skirts, and viii
be wrapped tight around The person
and fastened with a knot at the waist
See. % girl has come up and is making
s purchase. The fair merchant takes a
cigar as big as my wrist out Of her
month and lays 10 aside while she meas
trres the eoodr with a yardstlck. a half
dozen girls are sitting ON their heels
nearby watching the sale. Their backs
ors turned. and observe their silk
skirts glued Co their plump bodies. The
uurrnce. maId wears neither corset
nor hustle. Tho skirt falls straight TO
the feet. incl0slug the legs so that they
lool, ike double pipes wrapped in silk.
Tho upper part of the body IS clad In
Jacket and shawl
Now look no the cars OF those girls
They are shaped Ike beautiful shells,
except az the lobes. which are clongat-
cd and plugged with cylinders OF gold,
silver OF amber. They are bare-headed,
and their long black locks are done up
in a knot ON the crown. Every girl
wears two or more bracelets, and dia-
rrond ring sparldes on the hand Of the
merchant as she measures the cloth.
THE WOMEN Do THE BUSINESS.
Now turn about and look through the
bazars. There are thousands Of women
buying and selling, and hundreds OF
redlers moving about with trays on
their heads. Here comes one with fresh
fruits She has bowl OF cocoanuts
and bananas and cries out her wares
as she goes. Behind her is a flower
pedler. and further on are maidens
with vegetables. fish. fruit and an sorts
cf things. A fish woman IS selling a
trout from which she has chopped on
the head The fish bleeds as she han
dies f.. She has plugs In her ears and
her lips are wrapped around a mighty
cigar at which she puns as she weighs
out the fish.
We go TO tho street Of the tailors.
Here girls are sewing on machines
worked by hand They win make you
a dress while you wait We stop be-
fore a pretty silk seller, and buy a
yellow striped skirt TO send home. The
girl sits on her feet. her little brown
toes peeping out OF the pink skirt which
Is wrapped tightly about her. She looks
innocent and I feel safe In making the
purchase et her own price. She offers
mo a Whit from her cigar as handle
tho goods and upon my refusing gives
30 10 her sister and then comes down
20 business. She pulls out one piece OF
bright silk after another and explains
the good points of each. laughing and
chatting the while. In tho end / find /
have paid three times what I should.
but the girl was so. charming 1t was
worth twice the money.
A BELLE OF THE BAZAES.
This girl was one OF the bellies of the
bazaar. and typical Of the fair maldens
of Burma. She was as straight as "A
post ana as plump as a partridge, and
her rich Burmese dress was we'll htted
10 show all her beauties The women
here are clad I'm two garments. ono of
these is a. Jacket Of silk. cotton or gauze