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Title: Shans at home. With two chapters on Shan history and literature
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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htful shade of warmly tintedivory. Very charming little people they are—happyand good-tempered, and quarrels over games arefew. Little girls soon learn to make themselvesuseful in the house. They are taught to sweep,and they must remember that it is unlucky to do soafter sunset; if it is absolutely necessary to cleanthe floor at a late hour, the sweepings should bekept in the house until morning. A girl or womanmust dust the fathers seat with respect. Shans aremost particular that no stranger, or wife or child,should ever sit in the fathers place. It may be achair, it may be a bamboo seat, it may be only amat on the floor: however humble it is, it must betreated with veneration, and the girl or woman whodusts it should do so with her body politely bent;she must not stand upright until the sweeping of thesacred place is finished. There is another lesson that children must learn.When visitors come, and they have been given a matto sit on, the children should bring them a bottle of 4«
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LITTLE GIRL. p. 42) i ^ CHILDREN AT WORK 43 cold water and a lacquer drinking-cup, always re-membering that they must on no account touch theirfathers water-bottle, as it belongs only to him.Whether he is present or absent it is daily filledwith pure water—even if he has gone a long journey,and will not return for weeks. Girls have otherlessons to learn in the home. They arc taught totake the seeds from the bolls of cotton, to set thelong strands in the loom, and tie the ropes throughthe big beans which form the treadles. Children j& also help to watch the wood fire, which burns on abox filled with deep sand. This fireplace is some-times set on wheels, so that it can be easily movedfrom one part of the room to another. The sand inthe box prevents any embers from setting fire to thebamboo floor. Little girls are tiny editions of theirmothers, dressed exactly in the same fashion. Little boys become useful in many ways. To bring water to the house is the work of women and girls, bu

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