Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-26

| work in winter, another for finding wor
| another for fostering the embroidering in
dustry in the villages. These embroideries
have a character of their own. I had seen
poems written. pictures painted, Symphonies
composed, but until came to Roumania
never saw real embroidery. One day re-
marked on the shirt OF young peasant girl
that the embroidery Of one Of the sleeves
crossed on one side the embroidery on the
| shoulder. asked her the reason OF it.
"oh' that's called a wandering brook," she
said.
The language of our peasants is as howery
| as their fields, and they only speak in meta
phors.
asked one day.
"How are you going on?'
"Like the dog In the wagon"
"Have you SOM"
81 had two saplings, but the storm bea,
A mothers heart cry to her daughter:
Your child is crying. You have let him
fall. Don't you know you ought to hold him
like little pinkf"
"How is your betrothedf'
feldsr
A Roumanian will never say that he is alb.
solutely well. mot so bad," Is his phrase.
And he will never admit that he is really
Ill. You tell him something that seems to
you absolutely convincing. After listening
in silence he replies, "1t is possible"
SO"0 N8UOuol Cn0r6CGe116t1C0.
The Roumanian people express every.
thing in the dance, the men dancing with
men and the women with women. Soldiers
bagpipe to play some melancholy dance for
them. On q campaign whom on active serv-
ice, after the most fatiguing marches. under
shot and shell, they still dance, mocking
the projectiles until one of the dancers falls
wounded or killed. Their good humor
never leaves them even in the hospitals
The wounded amused themselves by invent
ing little comedies to amuse those who were
still in bed, and they played them with go
and dash and power ofimitation that were
Among the finest institutions of Bucharest
are the hospitals. They have been so liber-
ally endowed by tho former princes that
or 1000. 600 francs, and everyone % is sure 'V of
being received and treated gratis provided
there is a vacant bed.
beautiful city according to modern ideas is
now accomplished, and it is a city with
canals, a water supply and grand buildings,
such as the Athenaeum, the new Ministry,
the Law Courts, the House of Parliament,
etc. The foundation of the Bacteriologfcal
Institute raises us to the level Of the other
and picturesque Bucharest-Bucharest with
the little houses buried in foliage, covering
the space Of Vienna, with onlv IN, 900 in
to give place to city like ali others. Il
only seems Oriental to those who come from
the West. Those who come from Asia cross
the Danube with a sigh of satisfaction.
"Ah!' they say, I'VE are in Europe"
Wonderful Progress Of Late Years.
We are very extraordinary soverefgns, for
we wanted to accomplish in 25 years what
the others took centuries to do. We have
created an army. When the King arrived
there was one battery OF artillery-now we
have 700 cannon. Our first cruiser Is but the
beginning of feet. The State budget
when the King arrived was 8s.oO0 000L;
to-day It is raised to 15O,0 ,000, ,000f. Political
life has become relatively calm and seri-
GUS and for long periods the Ministers and
legislative chambers do not change. Rail-
ways furrow the realm in every sense to
bring the craps to the sea, cattle to Italy
and timber to Panama. There are schools
everywhere, and we are indeed in danger of
suffering from an almost too rapid develop
ment. We even try to have Socialists in or
der to be at the fore front of modern civilf-
cation, only socialism does not easily take in
a purely agricultural country, without man.
ufactures, where the farmers naively come
they will do we'll to revolt, and II that Is
really means of obtaining more land, as
the agitators would have them believe.
Roumania Is in the way Of becoming all
"a living artery Of Europe. When he Of
fered the young Hohenzollern Prince the
crown OF the country Of whose very exist
ence he knew nothing he opened the atlas
took pencil, and having seen that the line
drawn between London and Bombay passed
by the principality which called him to its
head. he accepted the crown, saying: "Yes!
CARMEN SYLVIA