| Show life in am IT i t V T 7 A A se ayli Z V R 4 A KAP V 10 7 I 1 4 r ta 16 Z t color and cushions surround a baby prepared by the national So society cletY FIon D C sor service 0 66 text ANTED female servant sen lint W A wages aca ny by tile the month to lie Y V clothes potatoes carrots benns beans and sixty cents tills this Is not a line from a musical comedy or a funny movie subtitle but tile translation of a bona tide fide want nd I 1 in an american newspaper it might reasonably have aroused curiosity if not investigation by a 11 local union but it causer caused no unusual stir among the crowd of peasants in the small town of in Ilung hungary ary as the town crier shouted it out there was all tile weekly news as well as the rest of the advertising to bo be heard the oral journalists of were informing I 1 n g the townspeople of the weeks events at the usual sunday morning gathering even kven with lenten restrictions there Is little curbing of gaiety among tile hie peasants on their treasured weekly holiday oliday li in true you may have no opportunity of seeing a marriage dance nevertheless the air Is full of mrry excitement and happy floppy chattering and no one can smile more wholeheartedly and infectiously than the young hungarian girl 1 Is a most typical of hungarian villages there tile the traveler may see tile lie real peasant tile life or of ahe country the towns population Is some 1 0 it is about three aln eo hours bitle to the cast of budapest and only two trains a day make the lie trip sunday afternoons the healthy lot of villagers parade in their festival finery the heavily embroidered costumes ablaze with bright colors and of a sunday morning the life of the lie town centers in tile the church always crowded to the doors and in the weekly newspaper at ten on sunday morning you ind find the he streets almost deserted it Is n brisk day find and you are elal to have the protection of a heavy beavy coat the sun tenses you faintly at intervals which Is especially vexing since you have a camera find and copious material for pictures first church then news you walk to the center of the town some distance float tile railroad station and enter the church if it were riot not for the saving landmark of tile HIP church steeple it would ile he easy to get lost in any hungarian town there Is little standing room in the church anti and you find the or too incense laden to linger long biting resides besides your presence causes much curiosity so all that the lie chanting women with alia shiaw I 1 covered heads and the lie men telling their beads ti ears are being distracted from their devotion so you leave and walk about the square marveling occasionally at tle sight of tin on American made pro product duct in one of the he shop windows and presently the church bells announce the close of the service then tile churche doors open and crowds of black clad fi figures ures pour out As if waiting for tills this signal two gen darmes take their places on opposite sides of the alie large square in front of the church and begin to heat beat a vigorous tattoo on their drums from tile the church the people gather in two crowds about these officials who draw forth stupor imbor tant looking documents of paper and begin their reading it Is un an education and a revelation to hear the news of A cow was lost on if anyone ling has found tier her let him report to the town headquarters there Is a long list of farms to rent and self pious to rent ber servants to hire tile usual monthly wage of the servants Is seldom more than iliin three or four bengus a fiengo Is worth about thirty cents added to certain supplies and their needed clothing it Is balti clent no doubt their wants arp are few any national news of importance Is told fold new dew laws lre ire read it la Is tin nn amusingly terse clear effort dietl one con templates the columns of unread copy to lo our own metropolitan papers sunday afternoon parade this rite over the peasants depart to their humps homes and the lie town wn Is suddenly as quiet as on a week day fur for during the week aalthe young men inert ant and women are till nut in the fields lle lils and only the lie very old unil and the lie very remain in the tillage til luge age dinner and then you are among the gaily dressed crowds on their weekly parade about tile town They walt always until the afternoon before donning their gorgeous costumes and then they pour into the streets ahe the sudden blossoming bloss oming of a garden indeed the pretty aprons are sur surprisingly prig like gardens or bright flowers in a basket or clusters of posies in the sunlight their embroidery Is peculiar to hungary small pieces of it on anie at one of the homes may be too gaudy to attract some travelers but on a black apron and a tightly fitting jacket it seems most appropriate and quaint the men of the town are arc quite as ornately hately or garbed as the lie women they are smartly dressed in black velvet elvet trousers made much like riding breeches bree clies short jackets and leather boots shined to a glow some of them also wear the long black aprons embroidered broi brol dered by a doting mother or an adoring and dutiful sweetheart and all of them wear green hats round and high shaped somewhat like a derby with feathers of varying size sire and color perched on the side A retching fetching lot of fellows and not slow at flirting with the girls hut but the sunday parades are not courting parties far from it themen the men keep to themselves and if the 11 e women walk apart from them for etiquette in does not permit any promenading in couples not even the married ones walk together and so the boys contrive their own little fun as they pass the maidens calling to them teasing leasing them by pulling puffing at one corner of their aprons or tweaking a long braid of hair shiny races faces blush find and the girls giggle and probably think it the very best part of the entire iday bayl I 1 unmarried girls always go bareheaded even in the winter months it Is only arter the marriage service that a young girl may put up tip her hair and wear the distinctive headdress of till married woman then the hair ribbons are dispensed with and the long braids are wound around about tile head so go that a cone cap can ile be pinned on over tills this Is placed the satin shawl that marks the girl as a young matron the new brides are easily found they will be walking together few of them more than eighteen years old and some several years youner younger still giggling when they pass their young husbands tin and proudly conscious of their new courting and marriage courting oh yes illien hen they meet at the sunday balls anil and at home too ni but lie fie mother Is always present there here and it Is more an ordeal than a pleasure but every sund sunday ay iy afternoon arter noon except tiring during lent they hold a dance and tile the young people find it very satisfactory is for getting acquainted and fulling falling in love in ve when a boy has found his chosen wire wife and she looks favorably on 0 n him ill ill the young plan man asks her father it if the father Is willing the young rellow fellow sends two of his friends to ask formally for tier her hand and tills this Is considered the announcement of the couples engagement then follows the wedding at a sunday dance the bride incidentally must have complete furnishings for tier her new house including linens and clothes for herself usually some money ol 01 a cow goes with tier her too A rather fill her of many infighters has his hands full to pet get tier her dowry to gelber rut but tier her trousseau trouse au at so formidable as it would seem to us its tier her new home consists of one or two rooms purnish furnishings nish ings tire are few ant and simple and the and embroideries eliat she brings ore are those she has worked at front from parly early childhood lays days with this lery ery occasion in mind rutn there lire aire no regular streets excepting tile main in mozo koveal kov esl you go this way and that oft off ill at an angle here and tin shortly find yourself in a maze of pathways and tin in the midst of countless snowy white bolles and yards or of tiny liay straw find and burns barns Hig giggling gling girls iho ho follow you ar overjoyed to pose for their pictures aliey ley tell you that thai they till all have been in within tile the last rev weeks und and that within the next month ti aliey ley a ill III go 90 oh oft to the fields with their husbands |
