The Washington herald., 1911-12-04
Only Two More Weeks to
Win Round the World Trip
Empires of Asia Shmmerng Plains and Snow Ranges OF Orient
Rice Fields, Elephant Jungles Palm Trees and Tenn
pies to Be Viewed by Herald Guests.

In two weeks The Herald's contest for
trips around the world and the Mediter-
ranean countries will come to a close.
December Is at 10 p. m. the long race
will be finished, and three joyful candi-
dates will start to get ready for their
voyage around the globe.
The gIobe-circling tours are the aim of
the majority of the leading candidates,
and their campaigns are planned to bring
them into the first place in Washington
or the highest position out of the city, so
as to win one of the round the world
trips.
Until you have been yourself to the
far East and seen the great empires of
Asia, felt the haunting beauty of its
tropics, and watched the strange teeming
life of millions of people whose history,
languages, religions, and thoughts are
different from your own, you will never
realize what wonderful place this earth
is or why the man or woman you know
who has been around the world comes
back a different person, seeing life with
new eyes.
All the books that were ever written
cannot take you with them. and the pic
ture you draw as you read or dream by
your fireside are pitiful guesses at the
truth.
Somewhere. toward the rising of the
sun lie the real lands of the Orient, SHIN
mering plains and snow ranges, rice fields
and elephant jungle, palm trees and tenn
Piles and tiRkly temple bells. The oldest
and most interesting part of the earth is
calling to you. Why don't you go?
Go to Egypt and see the sphinx and the
desert, drive along the palm-bordered
roads of Ceylon, visit the marvellous tenn
pies of Southern India, see Hindustan,
Nlrffh
wonderful architecture and mutiny scenes:
sail to Burma, the land of charm; loaf in
Singapore, near the equator; discover
Java, with its magnificent scenery and
amazing ruins-the surprise of the tour;
go to Siam, the home of the white ele-
phant; steam up the Yang-tse, past the
walled cities and canals of tOpsy-turvy
China; look in on the Philippine Islands,
the new possessions of the United States
IN the far seas; walk around the shot
torn ramparts of Port Arthur; journey
through sleepy Korea, the hermit king
dom; see the beauties and oddities of old
Japan, the land of all lands for the trav-
eler, and come home across the Pacific by
way of Honolulu and the Hawaiian ISL
ands. Can. You think of anything more
interesting than such trip would be?
Fancy, too, the peoples of such diverse
races: Swarthy Arabs and turbaned Hin
doos. skirted Cinghalese. men with combs
in their hair, silk-COated Burmese and
1.-the MalayS, Dluc-COated Chinese and the
charmingly odd women and children of
Japan, with their bright kimonos and
obis. Can't you see the streets alive with
color and hear the medley of languages
more than you had dreamed could exist,
harsh, musical soft, or sinssong, prov
ing to you that you are in a different
world?
There are the manners and customs,
as we'll, so novel and strange; the street
fairs and festivals. the groups of wor-
shippers round a wayside shrine. the Mo-
hammedan spreading his prayer rug in
the road and bowling toward Mecca; the