Many beautiful lakes are in the suburbs, and tropical parks abound: and it is the third city in British India.
It's an old, old town. Its chief attraction to draw visitors from the ends of the earth is the great Shwe Dagon Pagoda, the oldest Buddhist temple in the world, the foundation of which was laid 588 B. C.
And Rangoon has trolley cars and water-works, and electric lights, and an ice plant.
And ice is a precious commodity in Rangoon. In fact, ice is a precious commodity in any Oriental city excepting Manila.
In Manila they have caught onto the idea that ice is not a deadly poison or precious stones.
I attribute it to the influence of the white Filipinos living there, who are wonderfully like Americans in taste, habits and general all-around desirableness.
Ask for a glass of ice-water at a hotel in Rangoon, or Hong Kong, or Pekin, or Yokohama, or Calcutta, or Bombay and watch what happens.
The only thing of note in the whole transaction is the boy's self-satisfied air of having done his whole duty
Your table boy will bring you a high glass of tepid water and drop a piece of ice in it as big as a hickory-nut, and the only thing in the whole transaction worthy of note is the boy's self-satisfied air of having done his whole duty.