Show MANDALAY BEST IN WINTER 4 Burmese Capital Known to All Whites In India as an Ideal Cold ColdI I Weather Veather Resort Doubtless It will vIll surprise a n. great many persons to learn that Mandalay famed of song and story Is little more than a n half century old It was built In l G by b King Mindon who made It the capital of what was then Independent dent Bunnah nh Something m more re than Ulan feet above the le d ot the sea Mandalay sits sib tightly upon pon a stretch of tableland Just In front of the tile Shan lilian hills lulls The his city proper extends over about five Live square miles but but the military district of ot Mandalay covers co a more extensive area soldier With the tho Mandalay has taken talen on on ti d n great deal of the character character char char- acter actor of a vacation resort In the tor rid months of the Burmese summer the heat becomes very great sometimes sometimes some some- times lines making the thermometer rise to degrees in the shade but relief is easily found In Sn the adjacent hills The British sanitary o officers cers have succeeded succeed succeed- ed in exterminating all Ilic fevers and other diseases with which the climate was once infested In Ia winter or winter or as ns near to winter as it gets gets Mandalay andalay becomes n a dise for the temperature stays at about 50 de degrees ees Happy the British soldier who is assigned to this garri son Like as not he be sits of afternoons underneath un un- the shadow of the pagoda gazing dreamily at the flotillas on the Cant you hear their paddles paddIes chunk chunk- jin an n from Rangoon to Mandalay Or perhaps he looks at nt the distant mountains fabled to be so rich In alabaster ala ala- taster baster and rubles rubies And very often the whole picture as drawn rawn by Kipling is complete even to the temple bells and ithe the Burmese maiden |