Photos by A. \V. Cutler 

 A HUNGARIAN MOTHER WITH PILLOWS SWADDLED ABOUT PIER BABY 



This woman is wearing a style of headgear 

 pecvtliar to Mezokovesd. It is simph^ a small 

 tasseled woolen shawl, deftly twisted so as to 

 form a sort of skull-cap in front, while all 

 aroimd the long tassels hang loosely. 



ments of Hun, Saxon, Suabian, and Serb 

 by the ruling powers ; the irruptions of 

 Roumanian and Turk, Bohemian and 

 South Slav ; the wholesale descent of the 

 Teutonic bureaucracy, the ruling Aus- 

 trian vanguard of absorption, while con- 

 tributing to the material prosperity of the 

 people and the declension of a racial 

 strain, never seriously menaced the seem- 

 ingly natural and inevitable overlordship 

 of the Magyar. 



In recent times the Magyar population 

 has grown by natural means, by chance 

 accretion, and by a system of intermar- 

 riage until it has converted a minority 

 into equality ; yet the Slav is still a Slav — 



Back of woman seen in previous photograph, 

 showing the extraordinary profvision of tassels 

 at the back of the head, surmounted by the 

 cone-shaped basket which covers her hair, 

 "done up" in a "bob" for the purpose. 



more aggressively a Slav than ever. The 

 Slovak who roamed the Alfold a thou- 

 sand years ago has varied his habitation, 

 but preserved his identity. The Suabian, 

 whose villages ring the capital herself, 

 differs nowise in habits, in language, in 

 tradition, from his cousin of the Her- 

 cynian forest, ancestor of the Hapsburgs. 

 The Roumanian preserves not only the 

 tongue of the legionaries, his putative 

 fathers, but history of his own devising 

 and geography strictly subservient to his 

 political ideals. The Magyar dominates 

 them all, but cannot assimilate them. 



The Jew has been received with marks 

 of consideration indicative alike of the 



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