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Show MANDALAY BEST IN WINTER Burmese Capital Known to All White-in White-in India as an Ideal Cold Weather Resort. Doubtless it will surprise a great many persons to learn that Mandalay r famed of song and story, Is little inor than a half century old. It was built lu 1856 by King Mindon, who made it. the capital of what was then independent indepen-dent Burmah. Something more than 300 feet above-the above-the level of the sea, Mandiilay sit tightly upon a stretch of tableland just in front of the Shan hills. The city proper extends over about five-square five-square miles, but the military district of Mandalay covers a more extensive-area. extensive-area. With the British soldier, Mandalav-has Mandalav-has taken on a great deal of the character char-acter of a vacation resort. In the torrid tor-rid months of the Burmese summer the heat becomes very great, sometimes some-times making the thermometer rise to-119 to-119 degrees in the shade; but relief is easily found in the adjacent hills. The British sanitary officers have succeeded succeed-ed in exterminating all the fevers and. other diseases with which the climate was once Infested. In winter or as nenr to winter as It. gets Mandalay becomes a semiparn-dise, semiparn-dise, for the temperature stays at about 50 degrees. Happy the British soldier who is assigned to this garrison. garri-son. Like as not he sits of afternoons underneath un-derneath the shadow of the Moulmiea pagoda gazing dreamily at the flotillas, on the Irrawnddy. "Can't you hear their paddles chunk-In' chunk-In' from Rangoon to Mandalay?" Or perhaps he looks at the distant mountains, fabled to be so rich In alabaster ala-baster and rubles. And very often the whole picture as drawn by Kipling is. complete, even to the temple bells and" the Burmese maiden. |
