Show ONE EVENING IN BUDAPEST man who wants window open in bedroom Is regarded as a lunatic my aly train arrives at budapest at at I 1 am at the hotel and eight in the opera house where tristan und and isolde la is tho the offering accounts of that opera house have depleted it as ag one of the wonders of the world but it tho the building is substantial and of good proportions but over ornate A rough guess i that it seats riot not more than fifteen hundred the audience was in all sorts of attire As a critic recently said of a performance of grand opera in ili chicago thero there was a costume for empry hour of the day the performance was fairly good budapest often referred to as ono one of tho the most advanced cities of europe gives more than ono one reminder of chicago it is advanced in the sense that under artificial stimulus it has grown drown very rapidly in ili the last generation and therefore has greater proportion ol of buildings of modern type but to say as many do that it Is moro more cultured than the older cities of europe is nonsense at tho the hotel in order that I 1 might inight have a private bathroom it was necessary to 0 assign me to on an apartment of the royal suite As in st tiers eters burg thero were double sashes fr from orn top to bottom of each window and on oil the sill between the sashes was a small mattress like arrangement effectually blocking the passage of air not only this but the maid on her last round draws heavy damask curtains across each window when I 1 I 1 rebel and insist on having both sashes of at least one window wide open it I 1 is s necessary to send for the house carpenter who clearly regards me as a lunatic an americans sidelights on europe in ili the new york sun |