The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-05

II nearly an hour Right in the middle Of
one of the rooms stands the big picture
"Ecce Homo which Munkacsy never in
ished. And near IL, protected by big
glass covered box. are his palette and
brushes Just as they were when he usen
them last The palette seemed TO me re-
niarkably big and of unusual shape I'VE
forgotten a lot about Munkacsy. rcmem
her that he died about three years ago and
that be was insane for some years previous
TO his death.
Pest has all the luxurious maGnihcence OF
a typical rich modern metropolis; hut Buda
tOfeu) across the river holds a higher pic
turesque aud historic interest, Sultan
Shllmau captured Ofen (Budal In i54l. and
garrisoned 1t with 1000 janzaries, II re,
manned In the hands of the Turks 100 years.
And the remaining marks Of their Occupa.
tlon made its chief charm Ia my eyes The
old ST. Matthles church, commenced by
the Hungarian King Bella in the Thirteenth
century in the Romausquc style, and com,
pleted In the Fifteenth century IN the
Gothic style, was used as mosque during
the Turkish domination. In It's gaudily
painted interior occurred the ceremony OF
the coronation Of Franz Joseph and Eliza
both as king and queen of Hungary. So
everywhere In Austria as well as Hungary
all things that have any pretension 10 be-
ing under royal patronage have writton IN
front Of their names or sigus Is. u. h,
(kaiserliche und koniglche). ! got used IN
Niunchen TO Kgl at the beginning of print
ed signs. but when | crossed the border
One odd feature Of Budu Is the Turkish
chapel small octagonal building erected
over the grave Of She6h Gul Baha u Turk
ish santon lsort Of monk. The obligation
TO preserve this monument forms a special
article In the Peace Of harlowltz. con
cluded In 1909. This old santon seems "a
nave been a forerunner of Shakespeare IN
point Of calling down curse on him ''Who
moves my bones"
one among the many pleasant people
whom met in Budapest was Herr Alfred
Loewenstein, proprietor Of the Neues
Wiener journal and ne asked me 10 write
him something for publication in his paper.
, shall be pleased TO avail myself OF this
opportunity to let the people Of vienna
know what lasting and delightful impress
slons they have made on one American.
He said to write Tast as / talk Heaven
knows It's all too easy to talk! "silence
is golden IS the admonishment that mas
heen dinned into my ears and echoed by
my conscience ever since l can remember.
Several funny little things happened IN
| connection with my enorts TO acquire n III.
| tie Magyar vocabulary. The last episode
| was SO exciting that think / must tell
about it. / had noticed that the word
.klss@ occurred quite often on the written
sipns. etc, and / asked the Hungarian VINO
WAS our guide philosopher and friend
! for the time being what tnat Magyar word
/ ..l-tss1 meant and ne said klein tiitFiet
told MIN that we had word spelt ex-
aetlv the same way in English ana tnat
while kiss" with us Is little thing II
often leads 20 very large fepuils' Nhtu'
yaiir nv definition was not quite clear 20
4 40, 20 MIS-. sears suggested that she ana
/ should kiss each other, thereby giving
/ go, n, obiect lesson. But ! reminded her
/ me ~ was NOT from Missouri however,
4 ~ had bis object lesson I'm short time,
srd Il came about in this way As We
turned into ths stree, ~r5g 'ps 8
| slnso Misunderstanding Young nicn. likely
( oone,. stnden7s. walked along behind us.
Nj came 10 sort Of stal where ne Prod,
4 ,,,ts ~ dsirv farm we're for Sale. One
| Nel ' - e-,ars feature OF the stock WAS a
-, ~ ~ l,ttic round cheese piled up 70
: ssthsr ana near them stood iresn' moa'