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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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. The father, if pleased, does not speak to hisson on the subject, though, if displeased, he gives hisopinion in a decided and forcible manner. If satisfied,he asks a friend—who is generally an elderly man—;to visit the girls father in order to discuss the pro-posed marriage. A certain sum must be paid by,the father of the bridegroom to the father of the)bride, the amount of money varying according to thejbeauty and wit of the girl and the wealth andposition of her lover. If she has many admirers alarge sum may be demanded for her hand. Thisis a survival of the old form of marriage by purchase.If a girl is determined to marry a man whose fatheris very poor, she may help him to pay the sumdemanded. A womans earnings are her own beforeand after marriage, but if her father and mother pold or unable to work and she has no brothers, siitj,is expected to give her earnings to help in the^home. Shans are very dutiful children, and treat ar;old father and mother with kindness and reverence
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1 DIVORCE 77 W^hen there is no question of poverty, a girl mayspend her earnings as she pleases. Any woman—sven the daughter or wife of a chief—may weave her:loth, selling what she has woven, or become a:rader without loss of social standing. Every woman:an make money in some way. Plain white cotton:loth may be woven, then dyed blue for sale in themarket. Girls may also embroider the ends of pillowsand weave cloth of elaborate patterns in silks orwools of many colours. In some way, if a girl is reallyanxious to marry a poor man unable to pay the5um demanded, she can always help him privately.The amount asked is not large: usually one hundredjfupees is at first suggested as the price by the fatherbf the girl, but after much bargaining the half may36 accepted, twenty-five to be paid at once, the)ther twenty-five to be given on the wedding-day. If after marriage the husband and wife separate— ^ith no fault on either side save incompatibility of lemper, the wife returning to her fat

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