Indian pictures and problems . GRINDING OUT OIL. HUSKING THE RICE WORK AND PLAY bank by the river and bricked in wlien the fire isHghted. It was a fascinating pastime to standand watch men, women, and children, each at aspecial little turn-table, without models or measure-ments of any kind, fashioning water-pots and jarsand platters of all sorts and sizes, as regular inform and design as if the very latest applianceshad been used for them. At the other extremity of Bassein is a streetdevoted to umbrella makers, who drive a brisktrade in one of the absolute necessities of Burmeseexistence. Unde
Indian pictures and problems . GRINDING OUT OIL. HUSKING THE RICE WORK AND PLAY bank by the river and bricked in wlien the fire isHghted. It was a fascinating pastime to standand watch men, women, and children, each at aspecial little turn-table, without models or measure-ments of any kind, fashioning water-pots and jarsand platters of all sorts and sizes, as regular inform and design as if the very latest applianceshad been used for them. At the other extremity of Bassein is a streetdevoted to umbrella makers, who drive a brisktrade in one of the absolute necessities of Burmeseexistence. Under the fierce sun and drenchingrains of the tropics everybody needs an umbrella;from the toddling child, who screens himself be-neath a thing the size of a matinee hat, to thepoonghi, with his enormous sun-shade as large asa carriage umbrella. Here again it was difficultto find an article for sale, as they only manufacture to order ; and Western patience is apt to giveout before the period of Eastern execution isreached,—an indefinite interval
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