| Show I 1 I 1 ow I 1 1 0 g 1 I 1 11 1 1 1 I 1 iza I 1 i 10 I 1 I 1 1 1 31 11 i V 1 1 t i I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 P 1 1 it 1 1 ft 1 1 I 1 1 0 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 d ak 1 11 I 1 t I 1 1 I 1 11 1 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 k i 1 4 1 11 I 1 A C i it v I 1 4 i I 1 1 0 1 1 i 11 8 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 X I 1 I 1 S 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 11 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 Z 11 an I 1 I 1 I 1 1 ai I 1 k 1 11 I 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 X 4 4 2 II 11 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 E 7 I 1 I 1 W 1 1 1 I 1 U 0 I 1 I 1 i I 1 1 1 mv 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 V IK 1 21 I 1 9 I 1 4 7 4 I 1 e y 4 11 ft W I 1 1 T I 1 1 I 1 0 1 I f I 1 I 1 c 1 I 1 i M I 1 I 1 I 1 4 ir I 1 11 f 11 i I 1 0 4 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 11 41 I 1 11 f i tv 11 11 1 I 1 r 1 1 wac 1 1 I 1 11 V 11 r I 1 0 1 1 1 A 1 4 I 1 village deaust prepared bythe national geographic society washington D C HE gala day of the year in budapest T THE hungary Is august 20 saint stephens day when the embalmed embalm ed hand band of the count rys patron saint js Is carried with wl th much pomp through the streets in 16 a ti jew jeweled aled reliquary rell re I 1 Quary to the old mathia 3 church in these days of the rapid modernizing I 1 of the more traveled countries of europe theold the old fashioned est hals religious fetes national costumes 0 s talmes and customs are fast disappearing and I 1 there remain no more moie novel and ena entertaining sights than those surrounding the ancient fete of S saint a int stephen of hungary for who salk saint stephen was and why helas he was thus honored ye te must go back some nine hundred and odd years in id hungarian Hun garlan history from which we gather the following information i valk came anie to the throne of the magyar duchy in the year ile he applied ad for and received the title of apostolic king from pope sylvester sylvaster 11 II and was crowned in budapest anth in the e year 1000 under the christian name of stephen ile he did much for ills his cob countrymen n to bring them into the established church and founded throughout his kingdom churches chu iches schools and convents his adminis administration brition was a wise one and so eo firmly did lie he deal with the attempted uprising of i the old magyar religion party that when ills his death occurred ln in 1030 he left ills his country entirely converted to christianity so much had lie he done for tile advancement of the among the wild hordes of pastern eastern Iii rope and added to the civilization of his subjects that helas he was canonized and gladly proclaimed by the hungarians Hung arians as their patron saint I 1 not to know bud budapest aae st Is to io have missed one of the loveliest of european cities it has lis its own distinctive stateliness that th a t reflects the cultural no flott werino erang of a race whose kingdom has i been enthroned n ed on the danube fora for a thousand years As ce certain in american metropolitan quarters such as little italy or little germany reflect their mother countries cou n trie a in m miniature I 1 na so eo Buda pests topography tophil achy reflects on a small scale the lineaments linea ments of what asa as a result of the ewar war Is litteral literally ly littler little hungary buda and pest I 1 ancient buda on the danules Dan rears aloft on rocky crests that represent the foothills of hun maryli garys mountains while on the dihe other othe r bank modern pest stretches away ln in levels that prelude Hun garys plains buda with its splendid palace symbolizes Hun garys long succession of rulers reaching from stephen the saint of 1000 A D down to the tatter day reigns of maria maila theresa theesa and franz josef pests parliament houses memorable in their river set sei majesty majest Y symbolize the early won ll liberties bertles of a people whose forefathers rights were established ad almost contemporaneously with En glands winning of magna charta above all budapest Is a ii city of beautiful vistas ones admiration Is divided between its stately public buildings and the carefully caie fully apportioned squares parks and boulevards boul cards that lend to the picture tire an architectural aeck tec tural airiness a spaciousness by an industrialism whose chimneys loom in adjacent suburbs few cities over the million murk marli I 1 with as many as fact factory itry workers can boast like budapest of an a n unindustrialized aspect of an wand island pleasance Iea since lying in lyer sit at itil ita 3 doors of delightful riverside promenades where one lounges or lunches i I 1 and where motor cars ca rs are strictly taboo the people of budapest love pleasure and for files miles along the river rive r there are bathing places where young you and old mass on the sands orli or paddle addle about in graceful canoes across from pest rise rounded gounde d hills hijii dotted with bluell villages an and d summer villas from which one has lovely views of the 66 teeming city the wide plain and the winding river certain postwar post war changes reveal with what w hat ingenuity I 1 ngen tilty hungary has net met I 1 1 her ter reconstruction problem how many m any crowns for aWl you may ask a budapest foreign exchange clerk he will reply ill give ghe you sou the rate in fengos you may be fa most european cun accles and have literary acquaints acqua acquaintances inta nees with d doubloons doub ou blodi loons ih ducats dubats and moi mol dores but 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 4 4 C t what in the name of coins ancient and modern soil ask is a krone enow now I 1 the answer As as suggested ted by the tha I 1 NO words ads tinkling s sound Is Mo money ikey that rin rings gs like 11 ke gold golda when post pos war hun I 1 garys currency crashed the alid phrase hungarian kronell bione crown became a synonym of woith worthlessness and so no along with her financial reconstruction under the auspices of th the league or of nations a national coln coin aiming competition was inaugurated As a result the discredited krone was replaced by bythe the onomatopoeic r I 1 to reinforce faith in the sta stabilized cur reny rency side trips from B budapest t will will convince I 1 the traveler that contrary to first impressions the hungarian plain As Is far from I 1 being b either monotonous or lacking in fix color one nee need d not travel for more than a few hours east of the capital in order to to see sed all the colors of the rainbow or gypsy camps or a wild west r roundup or a first i rate F fata ata morgana with illusive seas and cities rising across the plain the colors colori will assail your eyes atthe at the village of any sunday morning in the church square I 1 seething with folk their black garments r merely ilie rely serve seive ait as a background for superimposed stripes I 1 aprons bod tees ices woven in mixed patterns of orange g green reena yellow and purple A fringed apron kaleidoscopic in effect bangs n from the wal waist s t of each maiden or youth the formers full pleated skirt sways sway s rhythmically as I 1 she sh walks the latter in n his short velvet v el et collared jack jacket et his tall flat fla ailt brimmed derby and that indexer ably coquettish ap apron ron would inspire I 1 re any ally fraternal order orde of the so and sos with hints for a striking lodge costume I 1 I 1 I 1 1 matrons matrona wearing the cornucopia 11 shaped alf alf of medieval I 1 association I 1 display garments gai ments ov of lesser fesser color areas I 1 wit while ile dearold dear old grannies granni es P promenade romend de in t solemn V 0 o lemn black mere background i tor for youths peacock pageant I 1 it ir you ou are fortunate enough to view a marriage ceremony ay iy the afie color will I 1 pe be heightened down the village street et comes a costumed wedding party in nahe v e symbolism of hoped for fertility the bride ca canles r rles i a chicken while the he bridegroom displays a babydoll I 1 in n his hat a and nd al after fer the he event la is over afi the peacock maidens I 1 p parade up and down in pairs biars for forthe the tf especial benefit of tile the peacock youths tile the wild wila wt jest round bound up may be witnessed around Debre ezen whose neighboring neighbor hig plains pla afus contain head of live stock the spectacle of stalwart csikos cowboys ow boSs throwing 1 the m lasso asso while w derby hats and petticoats lends itself to mirth until one dasco discovers erk thai for deate dexterity r ity yath with rope and horse they have few ew equals the big round ups coincide with de I 1 bre bree cyens zend fairs where ni massesy masses a ases 1 of horses long horned cattle and and gaily clad csikos form forin a spectacle that could hardly hae been equaled by our west at its wildest great hungarian plain froin from t the northward rising hokaj 0 4 Hegy glia mountains whence conies canies the sweet and heady Tokay wine w ine and to southward along the entire cou course arse stretches the larger al I 1 told fold or great hungarian plain separated aratea from the smaller alzold by two mountain ranges inundation Is its ancient enemy government engl assert that the fall fiall of a single dike anthe on the would put one sixth of hungary under water tle the affo Al ads grassy expanses where sky meets ei circling horizon like a blue A inverted bowl has the poetry of timeless calm at times its distant clouds seem so BO low so solid that jou almost fancy a cowboy could lasso one and haul 1 it to earth daylong Da long nothing Is heard but or the lulling jutting pastoral of some shepherds dR flute I 1 I 1 the alfoldi Al folds gypsies gipsies may be founds found amid crazy hovels adjoining the graveled raveled out ends of some soine village I 1 1 street against a background of I 1 fiert alit floors flohra windows filth indescribable out ft will rush a gang jang of wilde children swarthy men slip blip shod women to see what they can camsell sell passing tourists they proffer music i but whatever be the tune your sour true tru e nib ician see seems as temper temperamentally ament to perform it except in wild ti iino wavelike va ellke strains of d despiler despi d ii lr r I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 1 I 1 ij I 1 w I 1 I 1 I 1 |
