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Show aaa aaagasa T-- MANDALAY BEST IN WINTER Burmese Capital Known to All Whites In India as an Ideal Cold Weather Resort DoubtlcsaMt will surprise n trrcnt many persons to lenrn that Mandulay, famed ot song and story, Is little mora thnu n halt century old. It was built In 1800 by King Mlndon, who mndo It tho capital ot wlmt was then independent indepen-dent Ilurmah. Something moro thnn C00 feet nbov the level of tho sen, Mandulay sits tightly upon a stretch of tableland Just In front of the Hlinn hills. Tho city proper extends over nbout flvo squaro miles, but tho military district of Mandulay covers a morn czteiislvo area. With tho British soldier, Mandalay has. taken on a great deal of 'tho character char-acter ot n vacation resort. In tho .torrid .tor-rid months of tho llunncso summer tho heat becomes very great, sometimes some-times making tho thormonioter rlso to ' 110 degrees In tho shado; but relief Is easily found la tho adjacent hills. The British sanitary odlccrs havo succeeded succeed-ed In exterminating nil tho fovcrs' and other diseases with which tho climate 9j was once Infested. 'T la winter or ns near to winter as It I gets Mandalay becSmcs a somlpnrn- i dlse, for tho tempera turp stays nt . - j nbout 00 degrees. Happy the British .v'l; soldier who Is assigned to tills garrt - BOtt. Like as not ho sits of afternoons un-derncnth un-derncnth the sluidow of the Moulmlon pagoda gating dreamily at tho flotillas on the Irrawaddy. "Can't you hear their psddlcs chunk-in' chunk-in' from Rangoon to MondalayT" J Or perhaps hp looks at tho distant mountains, fabled to be so rich In ala- - , baster and rubles. And very often the whole picture as drawn by Kipling Is. .completo, even to the tcmplo bells and' tit Burmcso midden. |
