Arizona republican., 1916-12-17
A Rumanian Valley

according to a war geography bui- ietin issued touay by tne National topographic Socie,y lnere are ieM more pac .uI es 4de spots .n southwest e4n E-ropc than .nat regIon winch lies adjacent 10 tie Al .estn n.er. and winch has been feeling the heal, hand Of War iatterly. Inc DuIieun says
 Tor beauty of lanGsc ape. pictures qucnces of native costumes, attract l1 eness of the peasants cottages, , there is no section Of sodtheaste II ! Europe more pleasing than the ATE esl h liver valley
 The cottages are simple little one storied affairs. with broad verandas s covered by roofs projecting over them and supported by wooden pilasters. The winnows are small. but the Wal lachian housewife attesls her love of beauty and color by the window boxes If flowers and the blossoming creep CTS for which the wnitewashed Nails afford such a simple setting
 As one wdnders out ot Bucharest in times Of peace and turns his face 1 toward the northwest and kronstadt ' there is first dreary plain to be crossed. with that amending same 1 ness that one encountered on our own rrair.e land in generations gone ! hy and that is met with when one sails close inshore along the coast of western Mexico.
 But ere long the plains begins to become green. undulating. pastoral. [ ;hat delightful piedmont type of { country that lies always between the unbroken plain and the rising noun ,ains Villages and homesteads en- . compa ssed with trees dot the sur ! rounding hills great cornfields are encountered. and every prospect : pleasee
 Down to the way stations troop women ond girls in their motive cos- tunes IT 1t he summer time they ! have cherries ard fruits 10 offer tho traveller. if il he winter hot drinks and tidbits.
 As one travels on the reflection cannot be escaped that Rumania Is a land of wells. for they are to he seen everywhere. most of them with a forked stick SC; up and surmounted ! by long sweep. Few force pumps are to be seen. for Rumania peasant land gets along still with the primi- tive eluipmentment America used q hundred ve1rs ago. and above all il is a land of the old oaken bucket still.
 Tn the heart of this region lies the village of Argesch. once the proud capital of Wallachia. but now eon- tent, in normal times of peace, to he the queen city of q beautiful little | valley. There are encountered the ruins of the ancient castle of Rad ! Negru. the founder of Wallachia| In the thirteenth century he removed his castle from kimpolung tc Argesch.
 "The town is richly endowed with 1 interest bv the ecclesiastical role il played in the earlier centuries of Wal lachian history. Here fig cathedral which is the pride of Rumania- It l stands al some distance from the town, bare upon the ground, without setting. but none the less grand and imposing It was restored and re- dedicated to the worship of the Most High in l517. A. D.. on which oceas- ion the patriarch was assisted by five archhishops and nearly n thousand priests.
 But the magnificencc of the struc- ture had entirely overtaxed the rev enues of the Wa'lachian treasury available for ecclesiastical prrnoses g. and it was only hv the mrni'icence of Militza, daughter of .he kin" of Serbia, and wife of the King of Wal lachia, who gave her jewels to the carse. that 1t could be completed. War seems sup-emcly out Of place in such precincts of pastoral peace as the Argesch valley and whoeve~ hos travelled through that valley and has beheld its simple peasant fnlk; h-iyn.