EAR BORING IN BURMA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12786, 1 November 1919, Page 4

EAR BORING IN BURMA.

<js EVENT in A GIRL’S LIFE. Dio women of Burma have unlimitocl freedom m eomparuon to the womca of other eastern lands (says tho “ Asia Magazine). Iniikc the women of Imlia, China, or Egynt, ihey may choose their o\ni nushamls and imlulgo m a period of courtship such as wo ol trio western world so thoroughly understand. Irani tho time of the firH peat event m a young girl's life, the ■ ho ring of her ears, which announces to j the world that she is no longer a child I but a woman, until her bethrothal, the ; Bunneso girl loolm forward to tho search for a husband’ as tho one aim and ambition of her life. Until her cars aro bored she is a child and runs 3 land plays freely with her brothers upon tho Village street. Finally the day arrival when her friends and relatives bring with them tho ear-borer and soothsayer, and the frightened girl must pay ’the price of gaining maidenhood. Her enp are drowned, by tho music and tho talk Md laughter that seem so heartces ; but the pain is soon over, and she. hersdr will make tho hole larger by every moans m her power, because until the hole is large enough to receive the gieat rpund tube, nearly half an inch , m rha.moter, die does not feel that she m indeed a woman. After the earbonng ceremony each man our maiden sees may bo a possible husband, and she copies the coquettish sway of the hips tliat is so effective in her older j sister, as she walks down the street , with mother aunt, or married friend, | who carefully guards her from all improprieties now that she has arrived at • marriageable age.