Show KNOW LITTLE OF THE WORLD many hungarian noblemen seldom or never go beyond boundaries of estates I 1 have before me the wages list belonging to a large estate in hungary it Is quite typical the doctor heads it his duties are to after births in the village and to mend a broken leg when necessary he receives kronen a year about 80 in english money and has the use of a cottage but lie he also lias has eight measures of wheat as part salary so many measures of oats and loads of maize and straw so much hay and for the cow and so on in a descending scale down to the unskilled laborers the women help at threshing the boys who mind the pigs at a living wage of about 40 or 50 kronen a year about 10 and so many sacks of potatoes and mane maise it is 19 the medieval system of ba baar r writes baroness orczy in youths companion the hungarian gentleman farmer is the most contented individual in the world in spite or because of the fact that lie he knows absolutely nothing of alif what alt is going on around him ho he does perhaps read his newspapers which arrive daily from budapest and has vague ideas that all austrians Aust rians are thieves and sc scoundrels and that therefore a union with austria must be fatal to hungary but as a matter of fact the political situation of his country does not interest him in the least it does not affect the richness of his wheat or the weight of the maize heads A keen sportsman he is unhampered by any game laws in hungary no one is allowed to arry a gun unless he owns so land and the owner of land and therefore game makes his own laws for its preservation his chief characteristic is hospi bality almost barbaric in its lavish ness his guests his friends his relatives all are welcome as long as there is room in the house what matter to him if ox sheep or calf has to be specially slaughtered to feed the gay in multitude and who come to visit him he has plenty and to spare of town and town life he knows nothing bu budapest fk noisy and tho the automobiles are smelly he prefers driving his magnificent horses in teams of four or five along the roads where right and left the rich fields belong to him there are at the present moment any number of high born Hun hungarian garlan noblemen of ancient lineage and large estates who never from years end to years end go beyond the boundaries of their estates |