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the; me;zokove;sd girls in the;ir Sunday costumes 



The long brilliantly decorated ribbons of the girl on the left constitute as smart a dress 

 as the Mezokovesd j'oung ladies ever aspire to, except when they get married. Note the 

 stuffed shoulders — a fashion which all ages of the female sex rigorously follow (see pages 

 .•^62 and 371). 



no department would the capital suffer 

 either rival or peer. 



The Magyar is proud of her magnifi- 

 cence, her success, and the splendor of 

 her achievements as creator and inter- 

 preter. In any department save perhaps 

 that of fiction Magyar literature has no 

 second. In art there exists no better 

 portrait painter than Laszto ; in music 

 nothing on earth will ever compare with 

 the joyous and passionate folk-songs. 

 One of the greatest administrators, prob- 

 ably, that this economic age has ever 

 seen, Ignatius Daranyi, who transformed 

 the country from his place as Minister 

 for Agriculture, happily, still lives. 

 Fodor, certainly the greatest hygienist of 

 the modern European school, and first 

 Professor of Hygiene at the University 

 of Budapest, was, too, a product of the 

 city. To her engineering genius the long 

 single-span bridge over the Danube is a 

 monument ; to her architectural taste the 

 finest Parliament building in the world 

 bears eloquent tribute. 



But it is obvious that a country 95 per 

 cent of whose area is productive could 

 never be adequately represented by its 

 metropolis, however many-sided. The 

 capital and the country are poles asunder. 

 Each stands for everything which the 

 other lacks. The asset of the State is the 

 peasant proprietor, that of Budapest the 

 commercial Jew. 



THE MAGYAR IS THE DOMINANT RACE 



One phenomenon, without due regard 

 for which the whole trend of Magyar 

 cult, its history and very being, would ap- 

 pear obscure and perverted, consists in 

 the undoubted genius for dominion, 

 coupled with an undoubted inability to 

 assimilate, which has always been a note- 

 worthy trait of the Magyars as a people. 



At whatever stage of Alagyar history 

 the thread is taken up, the people appear 

 as a minority ; whatever the circum- 

 stances, that minority is always dominant. 

 The Slav and Slovak bore them down by 

 count of heads ; the successive settle- 



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