Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-13

Its pile OF pillows. All coNereu Win tne
embroidered homespun linen. OF which
every good housewife has her ample store
There ig always the barn, we'll stocked
with grain: the stable. comfortable and
commodious one, for the Magyar loves
his horse and takes good care OF him,
the byre where the cows are kept, and
beyond the shed In which live those beau
tifll white oxen with their wide-curving
horns and jet-black hoofs. which till the
ground and do all the harder farmwork
until they are six years old, when they
are sent out 10 pasture and fattened for
the market. Besides these homely ne
cessary buildings, which are erected with
that eve 10 the picturesque which seems
10 be the birthright OF every Hungarian.
there are certain unfamiliar features in
a Magyar homestead which strike the
eye.
There is always the well, with its ORR
ental-looking upright and trans
verse bars. Hungarian girl, drawing
water for her flock. looks like a picture
OF Rebecca at the well, as painted by an
artist Of the Middle Ages. There is al
WAYS the garden. with its beehives. and
here. as IN the wider fields. the same ex-
cessiye care in the cultivation of fruit
and vegetables is manifest. But the
train flies on. now through what seems
"A sandy desert but the wide. mud-colored
plain is populated by great fiocks OF geese
and ducks. for fowls are great source OF
wealth TO the Hungarian. as well as being
a favorlte article OF food while great
herds OF swine-huge. hideous creatures,
clad in coats Of coarse hair-wallow In
the sands. and are supremacy happy By
and-bv the character Of the scene
changes. In the remote east blue irregu-
lar outlines creep into view. Those are
the mountains Of Pennsylvania, and be-
yond them lie the great Alps OF the Car
pathians.
RENOVATED ANTIQUITY.
Bv winding river that. rushing down
from the hills, has cut It's way through
"A beautiful valley, the train approaches
Kolozsvar. in old days known as Klau-
senburR-but now, when the Magyar
tongue has regained it's long-lOst supre-
macy. the town has resumed it's ancient
name. and the inhabitants refuse to ac-
knowledge II by any other. The railway
station. a thoroughly modern building
stands at q little distance from the
town-and al once. as you enter IL over
a bridge which spans q swift river fed
by the SHOWS OF the Carpathans. you
feel the curious mingling Of past and pre-
sent which forms 50 distinctive feature
Of the place. over well-laid lines tram
car whirls along; electric lights fash
from tho windows of the hotel at which
YOU put up; I'm the square beneath your
windows a pair of huge. ugly, but meek
looking buffaloes drag along a vehicle
which might have been one OF Attila's
baggage wagons.
In the square around the cathedral
where a market is hello almost every day.
You see "A graceful. slender figure, dressed
in the freshest md NEST becoming Pa
rislan dress. bargaining with an aged
bag in a costume belonging TO the Mid
die Ages. If not CT a still earlier date.
it Is a Kolozsvar lady doing her
own marketing. Round the fountain at
the corner nearest TO your hotel a pic
turesGue group IS always moving. Now
you see troop OF girls in their charming
costumes. their embroidered vests
caught IN around the waist by the band
OF their black or rich deep-blue skirts
the front breadth caught up and held
back so as 10 show the wide hem OF
either red. green, yellow. or blue. They
al wear aprons richly embroidered. while
their graceful heads. on which they carry
the big jar OF green pottery which they
mn at the fountain. are covered with
gray handkerchiefs OF various colors.
The unmarried girls piait wide ribbons
generally red into their magnificent dark
lccks which hang i'm two long braids
down their backs. Their shapely feet
are thrust into red leather boots made
after a fashion that has not altered in
go years Stockings are unknown.
The girls chatter around the fountain
the water splashes over the tail. antique
looking jars copper pitchers flash in
the sun.
a tall youth. with eyes of fire and
the superb white teeth which are a ma
tional popularity. advances 20 the gay
group. He wears the embroidered shirt
with its wide sleeves caught under a band
OF embroidery al ,he wrist. the home
spun linen trousers resembling a divided
skirt, the red waistbaLd. and the embroi-
dered sheepskin Jacket which is so com
mon here. but for all that. always pic
turesque. on his head sits a taunty BIZ
retta, In the rim OF which he has stuck
a rose. More laughter greets his appear
ance Another youth joins the party
He wears a more western costume. but
YOU look a second time, and you perceive
how the trousers are worked with
traditional pattern above the knee. and
see that the short coat Is also embroidered
and thickly frogged with braid. while
the front Of his shirt has a strip of ex-
qulsite needlework-his name. in fancy
lettering-done by either sweetheart or
loving mother. He. too. has a flower
stuck in his pot hat. He is fairer than
the first lad. slightly taller, and more
slenderly built.
A JUMBLE OF RACES.
He. like the trim maid-servants, is a
Seeker, a descendant of a warrior race.
originally placed on the waste lands OF
Pennsylvania and set free from every
other obligation save the all-engrossing
one of making their adopted country a
barrier against the pagan tribes by which
they were surrounded. Now they have
become partially amalgamated among the
Hungarians although still retaining sum
dry distinctive features. Another and
very distinct nationality is represented
i'm the street as a buffalo wagon lumbers
past. It's driver wears the wide linen
trousers, but they do not reach the top
of his worn boots OF black lea
Their There is gap displaying
his sinewy ankles. while his sheepskin
Jacket has less ornament. a slouching
hat of battered felt is drawn over his
long. grizzly locks. He belongs TO tho
tillers of the soil, the Wallachians, who
are at once the poorest and the most
Woodworking among the people. The
square is full Of animation. Under great