MANDALAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 153, 28 June 1902, Page 1 (Supplement)

MANDALAY.

Impressions of Mandalay are given in ilm Leisure Hour for May by MajorGtsneral Creagh, who says that from Sep< ten\ber to March the climate is delightful. After the heat begins, you must tak« to the hills. Mandalay is 300 miles by rail from Rangoon, and the trip is noA» quite- pleasant. The line runs through great tracts of teak nnd bamboo. The street scenes of Mandalay are full of colour and movement. This is owing principally to the circumstance thaiS the Burmese are the most dressy people in the world. Though the Avonicn or.? not at all handsome (the beauty with which they" are accredited is merely a donation from the writsrs), they haA^e the saving- grace of alway: 5 looking picturesque ; and with their pretty pink silk jackets, msny-hued dresses, and 1 flower-decked hair, they aro really very -pleasant to the eye. Besides, they are always laughing — for the Burmese wrfest fun ana enjoyment out of everything. They have even solved the problem of ""How to be happy though married." In Burmah there aro man.V ( extinct cities. Amaurapoora, a iew miles* from Mundulay, now in i-uins, was for ai century the city of the Bnrmese kings. Tagoing tvns iounded B.C. 847. Sagoing, on the Irrawaddy, is no-sr overgroAvn. Avith tamarind trees, but is still regarded as a, placo of great sanctity, it has so many Wutif ul shrines. The Irrawaddy, the main river of Buima, divides tho country into two nearly equal parts. It looks best at jjyentide. The aflor glow at Mandalay^ sV-en from the Irrawaddy, is "too beautiful for words."