Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-12-04 | Page 3 | Brightest of India's Gems

BRIGHTEST OF INDIA'S GEMS Beauty Spots That Are to Be Found in the Valleys and Uplands of Kashmir. It has been said that India is the brightest jewel in the British crown, but one cannot realize the brightness Df the gem to the full until one has sojourned so-journed for a space in that veritable Ireamland situated in the wedge of nountains forming the north center j joundary of that peninsula. No other , :ountry in the world can boast of such diversity of scenery, or is so full of jeauty spots as the valleys and up-ands up-ands of Kashmir, a writer in the Wide iVorld states. Snow covered mountains, moun-tains, pine clad hills, rushing torrents. :lear streams, limpid lakes, and broad llluvial plains all combine to make up .his wonderland, which forms the sum-ner sum-ner haunt of many jaded plainsmen Irom the sultry cantonments of India. Df late, alas! the ubiquitous globe trotter trot-ter has discovered it, and his exces: iive supply of cash brings higher prices, silk socks and white waist-;oats waist-;oats into a paradise where "boiled ihirts" and other appurtenances of an jviP civilization should never have been allowed to penetrate.