Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-01
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have a cook who has given us the best
fare we have tasted since we left home.
He tells us he is going to the United
States. An American family which was
here recently told him that he could
make his fortune by experimenting the
kitchen of some Yankee millionaire, and
he is now planning such an enterprise.
In other respects, however, the hotel is
quite primitive 1t is situated at the end
of the principal street. with group OF
old mulberry trees that have been pruned
| down to their bare trunks and few
| struggling poplarS The rooms are clean.
| the beds are comfortable. and n traveller
could ask for no more cordial reception
than the young landlod offers to every
conner.
In front of the hotel are four or five
| stone tables as large as milstOnes and
| three or -four inches thick supported by
| stone posts six eight inches in diam
| eter, where the aristocracy sits and drinks
| its beer during the summer evenings and
| talks about the Turks.
/ They social people and the small
| population has ntermarried 50 long that
almost everybody is related They are
very tenacious in their adherence to the
| customs of their ancestors. They make
much of their religion. Everybody is
| named after the saint whose anniversary
| comes nearest the day of their birth, and
| they celebrate high days and holidays
| with great Zest and unique customs.
Christmas Visiting General.
|
On Christmas day everybody keeps
open house, and the entire population,
from the prince to his humblest servant.
go around visiting their neighbors, drink
ing and eating and enjoying themselves.
This is the only country where the
custom of reciting ballads like those Of
the Scotch Ministries and the bayadiers of
Spain has been kept up. Every Mon
| tenegran is poet, and there arc spe-
cialy gifted persons who write odeS and
| stories of love and war and recite them
| to admirng audiences during the long
| winter evenings. 1T is the national
amusement The king himself has set
! the example. His drama, entitled The
Empress of the Balkans" is considered
the greatest literary triumph in the Serb
/ language and has been translated into
/ French and Italian.
All Cetinje can be seen in two hours.
| There are no castles or Notifications,
and the only building of antiquity is u
| monastery more than thousand years
| Old in which the ancient rulers, who
were eCcleSiaSticS, used TO reside. IL IL
surrounded by an iron fence with sharp
| pickets upon which the heads of Turks.
| who were killed in battle. We're formerly
| impaIed for the editicatlon OF the public.
Lying the ground in front OF the
| monastery are forty-nine Turkish cannon
| of all sizes, every one of them bearing
the coat of arms of the sultan, and OF
these trophies the people are very proud.
| In the chapel is the tomb of the founder
| of the present dynasty, and his descend
ants are buried under the cloisterS and
| the porticos. Some of them have hand
some monuments, the resting places of
others are marked by inscriptions upon
| fiat stones in the floor
There is d mortuary chapel dedicated
| to Peter III at the top of Lovcen, the
| highest peak in the range of mountains
| which surrounds the city, and it is the
object of pilgrimaSes on certain religious
anniversaries.