Show ISA MOTLEY CROWD gorgeous scenes in constantinople during the celebration of easter ANESTI christ Is risen ie Is the easter cry in constantinople stantin ople that you bear on all sides accompanied by the exchange of the traditional klea kiss gaskalla Pa skalla foulga flowers ot of easter time are buld suld ever everywhere where to the festive throng in the narrow streets in the butcher shops you see the passover pae lambs iambs with gilded elided feet and the choice pieces i the kidneys placed on gold toll toil the variety of types and costumes cob seen in this throng where the west meets the east Is most remarkable all the christians of the levant are there bulgarians in embroidered jackets greeks from the mountains sporting tho the th the e kilt which resembles the dancers skirt burly L u from the adriatic Lev antines ar medians men ians ladles ladies in the latest paris far fashions blons genuine and other otherwise wlee and of course a host of french germans italians austrians Aust lans rians russians english and americans in the balkans austria germany in fact all parts of europe one finds countless easter customs that were apparently of very ancient heathen origin quite unrelated to the feast of the resurrection the many nationalities of austria hungary afford a particularly wide held in this respect since the principal ones once germans slavs magyars magyari Magy ars shave haac como coc to occupy the country in the christian era em with all their customs already formed vince centuries the physical conditions of austria hungary with the danube valley sur rounded by high and continuous mountain chains were espic especially arlly favorable for t the he perpetuation of ancient heathen customs in central and southern hungary especially in the valley of the theiss abdat and at its confluence with the danube there Is a purely magyar eastern custom suggestive perhaps of their former homes in the central asian steppes ae As in nearly all popular cue cus tome toms of tho the magyars magyari Magy ars thi horse a conspicuous part in it easter day the young men of the villas villano pour water over tho the girls and easter monday the girls set get ready for their revenge this revenge it IL of course in the nature of an acknowledgment of the attention received recel and carries with it IFT 4 T 4 tac A A 11 1 0 1 aa 0 modem moslem crowds a meaning which the swain Is eagerly looking for girls post themselves along the lone long village street armed with palls full of water and through them drive tho the swains at top speed IQ in teams ot of three horses abreast tho girls are sufficiently deft to give their beaux the full measure of their acknowledgment of the day before and each gets his answer or thinks he be gets it IL this easter water Is believed to havo have healing properties and doubt doubtless lers has healed many a heart up in tho the mountains of carenthia Ca rinthia in tho the alps of austria where germans and slavs dwell together the girls engage in a picturesque race the day before easter lent Is kept very rigorously and after the long period of tasting fasting everybody looks forward to the good things of easter sunday the girls of the mountain village both german and slav the saturday before easter take enormous baskets of food to the village church to have it blessed by the priest stepping out of the church door they start to race with their huge baskets poised on their heads the sight of these buxom girls in their short frocks white stockings and many colored head dresses racing one another down the village street 13 1 most picturesque picture sue alue and graceful despite the heavy bir dens they carry they are very earnest about this race because each firmly believes that if it ehe she wins ehe she will be married in a very short time |