Show BAVARIA GAVE I FAMilY START Country Is Land Laid of Music Entirely Surrounded by r r Mountains Has Given Many My ail Artists to World W orId v Nov No 17 By my U. U 1 One t.-One One VI William once nce chopper wood wood wood-ch r or of Doorn Doom I Hol Hol- ol- ol probably land appreciates a 0 cert t In dispatches many mahy- reporting O defiance o of the I Berlin government b by Bavaria ari I f says says' saysa S 'S s a a. bulletin of ot othe t he he National 71 Geographic society which wilet 1 coni con con- con I I t i t Jt It WAS In a a. Bavarian castle j. j i 7 hun Jed eTh ot of years ears ago ago agov v that the family struck root r tho the home of ot this family I h with Bismarck's aid old made the t ho e unified G German states a rower 1 is IB note now threatening to break t tho tJ o. o combination r. r j his small state In the hills bills ys f ri Ia to the tho world tho the It artists father and son as well as V JC the and anel afforded 0 ir friends and appreciation for tor Mozart i v i 4 Wagner agner and Liszt I Bavaria may maybe b boo be ct described In iri fact tact as a land of ot J i mit music Ic entirely surrounded by hy 1 1 This wooded I of ot the tho Alps foothills slight aUght 0 ly ty larger l than the state of ot Maine 1 X lIef between Germany proper r V sv Switzerland on en the south and Aus- Aus ip irla on the east It supports near near- Iy people one-eighth one of ot Se th fe German population Munich V Pf-V f inq t capital has hag a population larger Kv than Pittsburg Pa while Nuremberg berg er Is Js about half hatt as large nature has had reserva reserva- con concerning the logIcal 4 L tIon ot of Bavarian loyalty Although J i ri u tades of ot the Rhino drain the so southern them section of ot the country r o of the bowl in the hills hUts drains Into int o the Danube and thence to the Black i sea The the thet t link between en tho North s sj a and the Black sea runs dl- dl dlf f- f t acro across s Bavarian territory Sf RESTIVE STATE Bavaria f agreed to alliance with Hh I i fh f Pr sla In 1866 1860 just before the Franco G German Franco war It has been un uneasy y under the tho yoke oke of ot the northern state although it H had more votes In tho g than thant t r I city allY iy other fitata save Prussia and nd i had Independent control over its v posts railways railways' and anda a army The The picturesque history of ot Bavaria which has has be J ruled for vv 1 than t n aJ cent century ry by counts pf Qt top t House df ma tes H tR e Grat ara stark tark tark Before the World war Bavaria 5 5 a. a 1 another name which fitted I ted T t. t perfectly with her dukes and duchesses and h her r music Ba- Ba Varla varia rIa was Nuremberg Is I r noted ed the world over for toys v. v Made in Germany German familiar Y f mark on toys toys in in American stores be 1914 could have b been en before ore j ch in t st ina 1 to r to M ado ade In Bavaria Wood farve carvers s 's of f the Black forest which touches 1 the state on n- n tho the south for tor ye years ts knowl knowl- v seemed to have halve a monopoly on how holy to pull childrens children's heartstrings s. s v I TI f F ASSION PLAY 5 5 In In 1634 plague swept Bavaria r a d in ona one mountain mountain valley a 0 b band nd of ot peasants pledged a a. cele- cele to every every ten years years-if ears it tho curse were lifted For three l' l hundred years these country folk T hl havo kept faith Their little village vil- vil lage Oberammergau is now known 1 the world over or and thousands or ot J- J people come to witness this unique f spectacle amid the hills W which ich portrays por pore trays the story of ot Christ Tho The continuance of ot this festival through years through years of ot strife and trouble I Ir J all aU Europe is distinctive of ot tho the Bavarian valley Shut In am among ng the hills Its people have hava developed o i. i solidarity and purity purit of ot lineage which h Is 15 quite unlike th oUi t states around them thero Other peasant bands band up and down the valley produce music festivals festivals' Many of the troupes so sowell well known that they have been invited to to- ap appear appear appear ap- ap pear before great audiences in the capitals s King Ludwig of ot Bavaria hard hardan ard ardan an opera In 1863 appealed greatly greaty to him He immediately offered 5 the author an annuity and anda a house if It he would come to Mu Mu- nich The author was Wagner The great master spent much of ot his later life ute In Bavaria and and andis is burled buried in B Bayreuth his last home The Wagnerian music festivals of ot Bayreuth Bayreuth Bay Bay- reuth given in honor of ot the composer composer composer com com- poser are aro attended by music lovers from all parts of the w world |