The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-07-10

schools are tolerated and girls are
admitted TO the the college department
az our institution. The position Of
women in Burma is probably the high
sst among indigenous people Of Asia.
The man sits with his legs crossed and
nRditates while the woman buys. sells
and manages, thus she secures q larg-
er degree Of freedom. The Burman
Bhuddist has but one wife, divorce is
free but a. q rule he remains with the
first wife and both are Loyalty devoted
to the children
have been impressed with how
much the religion and philosophy Of a
people affect their development.
Bhuddism teaches meditation and the
suppression Of desire; Christianity
praises the man or woman who
searches diligently" for what he de-
sires. II man in America desires
something he works and strives for it
until he gets 1t and in SO doing de-
velops life all around him. II man
In Burma desires anything, he sits
down, ineditates and stiles the desire,
with the result that his life and that
Of his neighbors is just about as bar
rem and CONSTRUCTED as it was in the
time Of Christ.
The standards Of living are not as
low % in India proper, but are low
enough. 1t Ii 30 warm that clothes
are not necessary for warmth. houses
are needed only to shelter from rain
and sun, fuel Is only for cooking.
Bamboo grows like weeds. With a
few pieces Of bamboo and some thatch
house can be constructed quickly. A
recent Are destroyed 800 houses, the
total loss was reported as about Ru-
pees $4,000, (s50O). There are any
number Of men who possess nothing
but loin cloth, blanket and few
things tied up in rag. At night in
the dry season the sidewalks in the
business section have rows sleeping as
close as they can lie. These are most
| ly Indians. The Burmans generally are
a little better off. suppose there is
not place on earth where humanity is
cheaper and the Englishman makes
this an excuse for absence of modern
methods. He will employ a hundred
coolies to excavate and carry out the
dirt on their heads, because he says it
is cheaper than horse shovel. OF
course it is not, but he has always
been told so and has never stopped to
figure it out. And thus this ancient
English tradition that no man is of
any value unless his father was a
gentlman, G. e. a man who never
worked with his hands, stands in the
way Of progress.
This is not to say that we do not
have many things to learn from the
Orient. The Oriental men carry their
heavy bundles on their heads far
easier way than ours of tugging things
first in one hand and then in the other
There is no way of carrying baby as
easily as the Chnawoman carries her
on her back. We call the East unpro-
gressive but it will take on every one
of our modern inventions before the
American woman will carry her baby
on her back or the American man will
carry his suitcase on his head. The
japanese method of leaving the shoes
at the door and only entering the
house in the stocking feet is not only
more comfortable but far more clean
lily than our method of tracking all the
dirt Of the street into our homes.
Wescould write volumes on amusing
and interesting experiences. Mrs.
Bartlett got a reputation last summer
for killing six foot six snake. She
was up country; heard the story first
and later learned the facts from her.
The servants are great towards and
when she found long snake hanging
from the rafters in the chamber she
proceed to lock up in the rooms the
wallah and club until the snake was
dead. One Of the missionaries had
the experience of having small boy
return the washing one week. Now,
usually it was brought by the father,
the mother or some one Of the older
children. On asking the little fellow
why he brought it, he replied, "All the
rest have just died with the plague"
4 But one of the best ones is on mis-
sionary who was in America on his
first furlough. He was to be married
to young lady also home on her first
1 furlough- (This is all true but the
names.) He was travelling in New
York state and in certain city went
to church on Sunday, ar all good mis-
sionaries should. On the printed
ch,yeh calendar he found the following