The daughters of the country possess an unequaled talent for business. The -entire intricate bazaar system is life to them, whether it' be a question of dealing in precious stones representing millions of dollars or merely of measuring out those pieces of silk which they wind about their slender figures." It may almost be said of the girls that they are born and bred in the booths. Everything they know or are cap-"Eble of they have learned from alme (mamma) or from her women friends. Of her father a girl sees little, for this amiable but indolent gentleman prefers—once he has visited his rice fields in the morning—to sleep away his day.
It is emphatically to be added that Mrs. Gernandt-Elaine discovered in her business sisters a trait perhaps more remarkable than either their freedom or their ability. This is an entire lack of such hostile jealousy as the West too widely has come to hold inseparable from competitive business. Which may even justify this enthusiastic observer' of rangoon and Mandalay in her conclusion that the Burmese woman may be taken, in some particulars at least, as not less than a guide by her Oécidenta] cousins. purposely leaves out the most. portant ingredient."
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