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SOLDIERLY LITTLE WOMEN WHO LIVE ON WOODED HEIGHTS |
THE OLD ORDER GIVES PLACE TO THE NEW |
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| In person and costume the Lihsaws resemble the Chinese of Yün-nan. Opium cultivators, living in villages at very high altitudes, they are unpopular with the forest department owing to the recklessness with which they fell timber. The women's somewhat military-looking dress is dark blue with red tags, mother-of-pearl or seed belts, and silver torques round the neck | Styles seldom vary in Ceylon. A strip of cotton is always fashionable. Staunch conservatism, however, cannot be expected of the rising generation who in babyhood are decked out in the frills and furbelows of Western fashions |