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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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ions may be kept, but, as a rule,wearing apparel is thrown over ropes stretched acrossthe rooms, and, when so treated, an expensive velvet orsilk becomes marked and soiled quite as quickly asone that has cost little. Even with the greatest care,during the rainy season, articles of clothing, whetherof good or of shoddy material, become mildewed andspoilt. If only a small price has been paid for thecloth of a jacket it does not matter if it soon looksshabby ; if the price is low, stuff may be easily boughtand a new jacket quickly made. Each woman sewsher own clothes, so there are no dressmakers bills ;to pay. German pen-knives found in Shan bazaars are of ^very poor steel, but when a Shan is told, * If youpay two or three annas more you may buy aBritish knife of excellent quality, which wull lastmuch longer than a German one, he answers, Areyou sure that it will last longer? Will your ex-pensive knife be more free from rust than my cheap ;one ? This knife suits me well; its price was so
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I 4 GERMAN (;OOI)S 139 small that if, during the rains, I forget to oil it andit rusts, I shall throw it away and buy another. Iknow that this is true, because two of my Englishpen-knives became so rusted by the damp that I couldnot open them, and was obliged to buy Germanones to replace them, as there was none of Britishmanufacture in the market. It is a pity that our merchants do not make amore careful study of the requirements of the people.Manufacturers would find it beneficial to their intereststo send their travellers through Eastern countries toacquire information as to the exact wants of the people,obtaining patterns of the things they use, at the sametime carrying samples of British goods. The articlesonce manufactured by Shans are now supplied byGermany. They no longer dye thread in different(Colours for their woven work, because they can buyiGerman twists and yarns of brilliant colours in anyIquantity. Before German braid appeared in the Shan.States the Kachins cut scarlet

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