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FACE TWU 1 WALTER D. MEN OP HIS former Abbeville Man c Sees Many Things of count of Visit to His Places Bombay, Jan. 17, 1922. JIt Dear Sister:? ft has been some time since I : -write you but I wrote Wide a few meks ago while we were in Calcutta wd asked that he allow you to read the letter so presume he did so. I also sent a cable on Dec. 22nd wish ag- jv? all a merry Christmas and I Hope it reached you on Xmas day, 1 and that you were all quite well and ( happy. 15 With the exception of little ailment 1 from time to time we have been ?p*ite well, but I have been incon- 1 venienced considerably by a severe * pain m my right wrist, which is the * reason for my not writing more fi?-,1 ^oeartly during the past three months, lot it is mnch better now and I hope 1 it will soon pass away entirely. As you read in my last letter to j Wide a onei cescripnon 01 our travels from iShanghajj f China, to , Singapore, Staits Settlement, I shall j bow write you a brief account of our travels since reaching Singapore. | AC accounts that we read and | CTeryone we talked to about Singa-\ pore gave the same information, and , fp were prepared to suffer there, Irom heat, to a greater degree than , ? had elsewhere in the torrid zone, j inS as we had become more or lees i fcoeastomed to high temperature we ^ jLid not suffer nearly so much as we ^ taticipated. | I We arrived there at 4 o'clock in < ike afternoon on the steamship An-, ire Lebon of the Messagerier Mar- , Aimes, (having been on her for about j an jiays> and being quite sick and , Agusted with the attitude of both ^ iJtiforg *nrl Pranfih nnccanuprs tfl. . yards those of as who spoke English, we were glad to land, even though we ere toEd that only a street of tis sue paper separated the pavement of t Singapore street from the fires of ielL Gur hotel was reached in a few. tirinTrtfs after landing, and it was a new experience, as it was the first fjoteLwe-fcad seen, built on the Pavil ion: plan, which style of architecture is almost exclusively used in the tor id* zone. The prevailing plan is a ceatrai building either one or two tfcnries which is used for office, sit ting or read rooms, dining rooms, etc. tad the guest rooms are built to form a three sided square around it ffith a space of about 50 to 75 yards between; which is laid out as a gar Jen. In other words they are exactly Sfce a Roman letter, capital E, the / central portion being the office, etc, j?d the other parts of the letter the <tzest rooms, one or two stories, same is central section. ! There is always a porch about ten i &ct wide and it is sometimes screen- ? j ?r+t, i ?... , CB H;lU VV 1J. C ailU CXI Yv aj D lUi" > sashed with easy chairs and a table I amd in most cases separted from the n?om adjoining by a partition about t T feet high, and on the ceiling is an \ electric fan almost as large as a wind i noil, and one can sit there from 11 \ a> s. until 4 p. m. with as little cloth- j tig on as they desire and ,be fairly t comfortable, and they usually do it I 4m. g From this porch your bed-room is 8 entered which is also equipped with * t?e or two of these large ceiling fans szti to the rear of bed room is the * iMEtk room usually ten to twelve feet a ieep and entire width of bed-room, * sad on a lower level, usually entered 1 geecendtag one or two steps, and { r corner this room there is ak 'trge cement tank sometimes round; ^ swetimes square holding about 60 ? 3*IU?a of water, and near it is an < i*n?ense shower oath arrangement in < job of the rooms, but most of the 3 feafeb only hare the tanks and a 1 galvanized iron pail with a handle ' ^tending across the center which 1 folds about one gallon of water and 1 aSuBt standing on a modem grille ar.d TiAsg. soap you finish your bath by japing pail is tank and pouring wa over your head and body, the 1 i^fceess is a little awkward at first; loft you sooft become accustomed to: >"t and real we tfcat it is not a bad idea I j^rinp to the condition existing in! tips latitudes. All walls of these J TO : wit i see >n Trip Around World Interest?Gives Ac storical Points and of Interest pai building's are built of brick and plas- j sh< ter or cement, and all floors are tile, J ljf< also the roofs and none of the walls ma even on the one story structures are less than eighteen inches thick; and I am told that white people can not live in these latitudes in houses dif ferently constructed. Now if you will consult a map you vill find that Singapore is on the >nd of the Malay peninsular and seems to be on the equator, but it is lot exactly 0:1 it, being just one de cree north which is 60 miles distant, ind of courso the climate is almost he same the entire year; the varia ;ion being about four degrees be tween January and July. We saw on )ur first evening something that was quite new to us; both in the dining room and in our bed rooms, little liz irds about four inches long and a ight green color, running all over walls and ceiJing and they make a pecul:ar sound something like the barking of a squirrel and almost as loud; they are called Chechaws. Anne was very much excited about them but her mother assured her they ' ' ? 1 U/v. were uaruucna aitu ucl icoio wcit ail( ;oon dispelled. an( We learned that they were very vei useful little animals as they live on pre flies, spiders, mosquitoes, etc., and ] assist greatly in destroying Such an( pests; I have frequently watched them and it is seldom that a fly lights abc on wall or ceiling that he is not jjii :aught. 00 ( There is more riib'oer produced on Ch the Malay peninsular and in Sama- of tra than anywhere else in the world difl and Singapore is the distributing na< point. We saw rubflber milk taken see from the troe and go through the ' process of conjealing, combing, mas- tie ticating, rolling, etc., until it reached the the final process of smoking when it coi iecomea tne pure commercial article, ind it was most interesting. We also saw here all kinds of spices growing such as cinnamon, cloves, slack and white pepper, nutmegs, in iigo, etc. and of course all tropical Fruits such as mangoes, bananas, nonkey nuts, guavas, papies, jock fruit, etc. Cocoanuts of course are iverywhere, there are more cocoanut arees than all others combined ex :ept rubber trees. We also visited the quaint and in teresting capital of the Sultan of rohore about twenty miles out by <rain and boat; he has a beautiful Dalace and mosque and quite a nice ittle city in his dominion. From Singapore we sailed for Java ind of course crossed the equator ;n route; one of the ships officers ;ried t"> convince Anne that there was i /I art / I uvviuvu uuuip WilCll UU1 W11^ ship struck it, but do not think she peo vas convinced. We reached Tandjong por ^riok the port of Batavia in about whi 18 hours and proceeded by automo- tha )ile to Welteweden (the upper town) vhere the hotels are located. It was Sunday morning about 11 o'clock vhen we arrived and we were almost >rostrated by the heat, it was some hing terrible but after taking a cold >ath in the manner prescribed, we At on our private porch under the ihadow of a huge banyan tree and :elt somewhat more comfortable. Late in the afternoon we took an lutomobile ride about the city and itopped at an amusement park and here we saw the native Javanese ife <n aU its glory and were much imused and entertained. Java is owned by the Dutch and Favansse, none of the Javanese know i word otf English nor Dutch either, ind the first thing a Dutchman has :o do when he arrives there from PT/vllonrJ Je looi?n Tovonacb iels are very good for people who and understand Malay or Javanese, but not other wise it is impossible to get ser- >oc v'c* I Prom Weltweden we went by "oc rail Bandoeing and Djokjakarta car and by automobile v'sited the ruins abc of Boroboddoer which were most in-'40( terestirgr; and saw an active volcano! pfa n action. [by The scenery in Java is very beau-j \ ' tifnl but the climate is hot and the wh trains are bad and there is *ot| ! >ugh to see there to justify tti p; as the natives and their cu ns greatly resemble the Malays ential respects, one is not thrill* ;h that pleasure which comes fro :ing new people. We were however compensated 1 jreat degree by the sunset we wi ssed between Java and Singapo ile sailing in both directions. i never dreamed that such beau lid be produced by the setting < s sun, to describe it is impossibl t if I possessed the talent of inter, I feel quite certain that >uld willingly spend years of ir ; endeavoring to reproduce the: rveis 01 cpior OU tauran, ?uiu -.efforts were only fairly succes it would be sufficient compens n, Landed again in Singapore I lear that a ship of the British Ind . (the Ekma) was to sail for Ra: >n Burma in four days so v >ked passage and made ourselv nfortable in the Raffles Hotel ait her departure. She was the smallest ship that v i traveled on for a long distanc : the food and service officers at low passengers were quite sati tory and our voyage was qui asant, only marred to some e it by Marie being in bed for v days with Dangere fever co cted in Java or Singapore, ar en we stopped at Penang she wj ; able to go ashore; Anne and tit however and found it most i esting from many points of vie i we sailed again the. same afte >n reaching Rangoon 3 days 1 when Marie was able to go ashoi ? o-ffor cnoriHincr n fpw i taking medicine prescribed by y good doctor we were able >ceed to Calcutta India. Rangoon is the capital of Burn i seat of government and has pulation of about 300000 of who >ut 100,000 are Burmese, 110,0( idus, 50,000 *Mohamedans, 2E ) Christians and a few thousar inese, and 'our stay there was ft interest as we saw new peopl "erent kinds of temples of worshi ;ive life, etc., from what we hi n elsewhere. rhe men of Burma wear very li clothing, in fact a loin cloth i predominating style, varied < irse with the loose drapery woi rat the waist and legs seen eve: ere throughout the east; but tl men of Bu^ma are a different pr rition, they are well covered fro id to foot and wear in additic ipenes 01 ngnt Deauuiuny coiort ffr (silk, etc.) about their hea< 1 shoulders and sometimes extern below the waist, presenting a >earance both picturesque ar inning, but as all the Burme: men are inveterate smokers ar 3 users of the beetle nut they ai very tempting in appearand y smoke cigars all sizes from 1 he in diameter and four inch< g to one inch in diameter and eigl hes long, and the larger sizes pri rrnate, it strikes you very funn en you first see it. went ashore in Rangoon for tfc t time about 10 o'clock at nigl 1 my attention was attracted 1 pie sleeping on door-steps, o ches. side walks any and ever sre, and I afterwards leame t the law permitted a person t ;p wherever he wished out c rs, and that he could not be con led to vacate unless he is provide person making complaint wit ?her place to sleep; not a bad la1 in you think of the points invoh 'here are many pagodas in an ut Rangoon but the most impor one is the Great Showe Dago roda which can be seen plainl; h its gold, dome resplendent i tropical sun, while your ship out from shore, it is the oldes finest and the most universal] ted of all places of worship i o-China, it is the only Pagod >wn to Buddhists which is credit* h containing actual relics not onl CJantana, but of the three Buddhi ? preceded him in this world, ar this reason it is peculiarly sacrc I attracts countless pilgrims fro: ; only Burma, but also from Co: l a, Slam, Korea and Ceylon :t is a stately pile, and like all p las each side faces one of tl dinal points of the compass. It >ut 900 feet long, 700 wide ar ) high and richly gilt from base ' isaele, the whole is surmountc an umbrella shaped affair calk 'Ti" containing many rings fro ich hang gold, iT'lrer and jewel* Is which tingle it tkt breeze, ar this "Ti" which was presented bj the late King of Burma, (Mindoi Min) and placed on the summit a \ cost of a quarter of a million dol lars, was constructed by voluntary labor, and subscriptions in mone; and jewels with which the Ti is or namented, were sent in from all part re of the Province; the devotion o these people to their religion is mar velous. The park and botanical garden ar beautiful, a large lake being in th center, and when the Showe Dago: : lighted at night a reflection i thrown into the lake showing th Pagoda upside down, and the effec is very beautiful. From Rangoon we sailed for Cal cutta through the Bay of Bengal _nd although it was quite warm dui ing the day the heat was not op pressive and the nights were muc! more pleasant than we anticipated. We docked at one of the Ghats i] Calcutta one morning about I o'clock and went ashore, and a] though I knew that the city had < population of about 1,000,000 was surprised to find such magnfic ent buildings. The Hindu population is abou 600,000, the Mohamedans about 260, 000 and the others Christians, Jews Chinese, etc., and the variety of na tive life is consequently most inter esting. We visited here the finest Botani cal garden in the world which cor tains tropical plants and trees o w every known variety as well as 01 r* chids of the rarest kinds, and her a- we also had the pleasure of standini re under the shade of the largest Bar re yan tree in existence which cover a with its branches about an acre o to ground. Here too we had the pleasure o la visiting our first Jane Temple an a we were astounded at its beauty, th m'foundation platform is of white mai )0 ble, beautifully carved and the teiu i,-;ple itself is built entirely of sma! id mirrors ranging from the size of i ill finger nail to an inche or more whic e, are laid to represent branches an p, flowers, garlands, etc., and bein, id every shade of color; you can imag ine how beautiful it must be an :t- the amount of labor required to buil is it; I am told that several hundre Df men were employed for more tha m three years. ry The founder of this religion liv? le about the same time as Guatam o- Buddah 500 B. C. it does not diffe m greatly from the Hindu religion >n their chief aim however is to preven *i the transmigration of their souls, an< is believing that all living things hav d- souls, they protect all animal lift tn even insects, and of coarse touch n< id lesh or fish, living entirely on a veg se etable diet; I believe there ar id something more than 1,000,00' re fains in India; quite a small numbe g; of course as compared with Hindus Buddhish and Mohammedans. ;s From Calcutta we went by rail ti it Darjeeling which is called the roo e-1 of the world and I think the name i [y | most appropriate; to reach it w< itravedel a part of the way (about 51 ie miles) on the crookedest railway ii it the world. ;o J The track is only 24 inches widi njand the little cars hold only abou j. a dozen people in each and the en d gine a curiously constructed affair ;o with two natives sitting in fron >f throw:ng sand on the track, makes i . I /lool of nnico slip laborousll 1- ?VSVSU Utui v* itviwv v.w ?... , d I makes the ascent. ,h| On account of attending races w ] operas, etc., I did not finish my lette /. in Bombay so will do so now an< post letter at Port Said or CaifOw d Although it is only about 35< t- miles from Calcutta to Darjeeling i n took us about a day and a half b f, make the trip, but it was worth th< n time and inconveniences, yes, an* is more* ' -i t, I have seen snow capped moun ly tains in our great west, and wonder in ful mountain scenery^ but nothing la have seen can compare with what w< d: saw here. From our room in th ly Mount Everest Hotel we could se is the wonderful snows about 30 mile id : distant, but seemingly a few hun J J?-* imrnt. n/vf :a uitru jraiuo anaj , w?w ra patches of snow on shaded peaks an< a- valleys of the mountains, but vaa areas, covered many feet deep, a- Of course everyone who journey le \ to Darjeeling must, if possible, se is the sun rise on Mount Everest, th id highet peak in the world (a trifl to more than 29,000 feet) and the da; id after our arrival I made arrange id raents with a Thibetian guide to ac m company us the following mornin; ;d to Tiger Hill, from which Moan id , Everest can be seen this place i j about aeven miles from our hotel. i At three o'clock the next morning t our Indian bcrvant, who was trav - eling with us, of course, knocked at y my door saying, "Master, it i9 time f to rise and your breakfast will be - served when you are ready." So in aj s few momenta I was finishing my, f breakfast of eggs, toast and-tea, and - then went into a room nearby, oc cupied by Anne and Marie, to find e them ready to start. e e wereW warmly dressed, as pro n tection against the cold in higher s tltitudes; as in a distance of barely e seven miles we were going to climb t two thousand feet higher. Marie, having had no experience 1- in horse back riding, was carried by 11 six Thibetian coolies (magnificent, - specimen of men) in a queer kind of h chair (called a Dandy) attached in, h an ingenuous way to three strong! poles, while Anne and myself rode I n Thibetian ponies aflxmt fourteen 0 hands high, the surest footed, best 1- gaited animals it has ever been my a pleasure to ride. The moon was full j 1 and as bright as day and as we climbed up, up, up the grandest scenery that I have ever witnessed t was gradually uncurtained to our r view, and when we reached the sum i, mit of Tiger Hall and had warmed our hands and feet by a fire which >. our guide had kindled, we ascended a small platform and looked about us. In the East the first streaks of dawn were visible, and in. the West ? the moon was shining as brightly as ever; we were entirely above the e clouds and the villages beneath were g entirely shut off from view, moun tain peaks ali around i a few thou s sand feet high projected above the ? clouds, and from where we stood theee mountain peaks resembled is ? lands, and the clouds appeared like j foam crested waves dashing against - verdant shores: and then in the East we could just se>e a small segment of the sun which in a few minutes was resplendent in all her glory, and as she rose higher and higher, peak af ter peak, shrouded in a mantle of snow gradually came into view, and then Mount Everest; and the rays of the sun falling upon these giants of the Himalayas, Kmchenjunga, Jauna, Kabru, etc., and being deflected by clouds of shadows, produced a spec tacle that will be fresh in my memo ry as long as I live; there was, there is, no sight on earth to equal it, for beauty and sublime grandeur. Our return to our hotel was most enjoy able and the magnificent scenery that met our eyes at every turn of the trail filled us with wonder, and admiration and at 9 o'clock when we arrived we enjoyed a second break fast, and then at Anne's earnest solicitation I rode with her a few miles more to get another view of the sno^vs from a different angle. The child was very much impressed, and the pages in her diary regarding this section of India, show a gratify ing appreciation for a girl of her age. s ' We returned to Calcutta on.D?? e cember 20th and the weather was so D hot that we hurriedly got into our i tropical clothing again, and as the Prince of Wales was to arrive there on the 24th, and as the great prepa rations had been made for his recep tion, we felt that it would be a very good place to spend Christmas, and get an insight into Indian pomp and i' splendor, so decided to remain there until the 27th. Of course, | during our stay we saw many things i, new to us and had frequent close-up r views of the Little Prince, who, by i the way, is very popular out here as well as in all other parts , I believe, ) of the British possession. t Hindu. Gandi. who is trying >' to get up a revolution in India, has | e quite a following in -Calcutta and i everyone seeired to expect trouble J while the Prince was there, but for tunately nothing serious developed, end the only intimation we had of it I was what we read in the papers. The e British know how to handle their e colonies and are ready at all times e to establish order, the lessons so s dearly learned in 1857 and 1858 in - Lucknow, Cawnpore, Agra and d Delhi during the great meeting has d not been forgotten, and it is well. t We enjoyed very much the horse races in Calcutta and saw the s prince's cup run for. This is the e greatest society event of the year e and this christian the Prince being e there to witness it in person, made it y even more in.portant. The race track - " ? ^ - 1J ! is one of the nnest in me wwm, and the racing is conducted on a g very high plane^ the Jockey Club be ting composed of gentlemen, not b gamblers, and the best horse "vrins. The day before I went owj #4 & \ cured the ingiedients for as egg-a?g and Christmas morning, m #ffr rooms I made it, and invited a ?oopie from Los Angelee who weie aJfeo staying in our hotel to join so it seemed just a little like ChriKtaaae, anyway, ; and we spoke of all ?f you at home and hoped that our caMe had reached you that morning (or rather the day before you celebrated your ChristmaA, time dif fers, you know.) On the evening of the 27th ye left Calcutta with Abdul, our Indian, servant, to visit other places in tins land of mystery and greatneatL Per haps you wonder why we hex# a servant to travel with us so I will ex plain. The trains in India are not dike our trains in the U. 8. A. They have compartments much like the ones in Europe, but no bed clothing, towels nor any other necessary ar ticles are available on the trains, and one must take along everything re quired and at the end of each flxfct class compartment, .connected by b door, there is a small compartment running width of car about three feet wide which is for servants, and anything you want must be done fey him, so you can readily see that to travel in India without one would not be very pleasant, and oars, I am glad to say, proved to be an excel lent one, not only spoke English, bfct could read and write it fairly well, and Hindustan being his native tongue we had no trouble anywhere, he looking after our baggage, pqy ing all coolies, hackman, etc., and taking care of our baggage and look" ing after our comforts in hotels and elsewhere. When we reached the depot that evening the station master conduct ed u9 to our compartment and Abdbl had our berths made up ready for fcs to retire, and the next morning gf te having breakfast in the dining car we reached Benariea, on the banks of the Sacred Ganges. This city has a population of about 80#, 000 almost all of which are Hindus - and not more than a half do^ea white people reside there, excepting the British soldiers. To the Hindu it is th most sacred place on earth, ??d hundreds of thousands of them from all over India go there annually to bathe in the sacred water of the Ganges and every Hindu who ex pects to reach heaven must once during his life time purify hdmaelf in these waters, consequently to get a good idaa of Hiindu life and cus toms Benaries is the place most agit able. Our first day there was spent driving about the city and visiting some of the shops for which that city is famous. Brass articles and certain kinds of silk goods are the chief features and are worth while see&g ana Buying, coo.ywe nave oe?n lay ing something every where for jrfcfch the place visited was famous and fcl (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEjJ) SPELLS aJA i/rr CHEWING TOBACCO Penn's spells quality. Why? Because? Penn's is pacxed air* ti/jht in the patented new container ? the quality is sealed in. So Penn's is always fresh ?an entirely new idea for chewing tobacco. Have you ever really cnewea rresn looaccor Buy Penn's the next time. 'Try it. Notice the fine con dition. And after that, use fresh chewing tobacco ? Penn's.