Evening star., 1905-11-04

dren, but II you live In the country and
wish your children to go to school you
must hire your own teacher.
"If you are a rich man you Will hire a
private teacher. set aside a room In your
house for the teacher and your children
who may be Joined in their studies by the
children Of some of your neighbors. 10
whom you may wish to extend the courtesy
of an invitation to do so, or who may WISH
to help bear the expense.
IF you poor man you and your
neighbors will club together and snare the
expense among you. l was the teacher IN
a little village school when L was a boy III
my very early teens. My father was poor.
and If 1 went any further in my studies
I had to go out in the country school
teaching to earn the money it would cost
for me to go on. l had seven or e ght pu-
pills, all the children of the village In which
/ taught. and l drew not a penny or my
pay till I had been teaching year and a
half Then l had quite bundle. and was
able to continue my studies in Pesth.
Hungarians in America.
I'VE estimate that there are about G0,OV
natives of Hungary in New York, of whom
10000 are real Magyars, and 10000 are
Jews. Slavs and others. There are about
100 900 natives of Hungary In the United
States outside of New York. Most of the
SIavs from Hungary are to be found in the
coal mining regions of Pennsylvania. They
are not at all of the same grade as the
Magyars though | hope you will not think
me unduly narrow for saying So
"It is a fact that. while there are no
prouder people alive than the Magyars.
there is no country in the world. despite the
various races which inhabtt it, where peo-
pie of different nationaities gel along to-
gether better than in Hungary. There Is
no anti-Semite feeling there, as there Is
In some countries-at least. there WASH
when | was a boy at home. and l have not
heard that any such feeling has developed
there since.
"Magyars, Slavs. Czechs and Hebrews get
along together admirably, each fully con-
scious of the peculiarities of the others. and
all tolerant-quite as tolerant as In the
United States. If not more so. And, OF
course all tolerate the gips'es.
THE different nationalities do not In
termarry very much. I should say there
is less amalgamation there than ins this
country. for, while there is tolerance, there
is also race pride in plenty, and, as | have
sa id. race pride is very important charac-
teristic of the Magyar.
"The Magyar, unlike most Europeans,
does not like to speak any tongue but his
own; he doesn't like to read books printed
in anything except Magyar, and he likes
his newspapers to be of his own languaS"
Magyars Are Progressive.
81 hope you will not think the Magyars
an unprogressive race from this. I, as a
Magyar naturally believe them to be un-
usually progressive. and all proud
of Buda-Pesth one of the best governed
cities In the world where progressiveness
and the development of municipal beauty go
hand in hand as any traveller will tell you.
BY and by we hope the Hungarians will
be able to point proudly to Independent
Hungarian state; a state whose government
shall be in its way as satisfactory as the
municipal government of Buda- Pesth is to-
day.
I'm this hope we take great account of
Francis Kossuth, who, We trust, will prove
himself a worthy son of his father, Lou s
Kossuth, honored repeatedly by the people
of this country.
But while Francis Kossuth seems to
promise well, we do not yet know how he
will develop. During all his fathers life
the younger man kept out of Hungarian
politics, living with him in Italy; since the
elder Kossuths death he has been active,
and, as you have seen by recent cable
grams in the newspapers, he is now a very
big factor in the affairs of Austria Hun
gary. He, like all patriotic Magyars Is
particularly impressed by the injustice OF
the unequal share of the imperial military
ana other expenses Hungary has to bear,
but we believe that, like the rest of US. he