The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-16

LII NAllpANG VI lllt "OIlu
~ have their eyes fixed on the
~ colossal struggle which is
shaking civilization to its very
foundations, but by none is it watched
with more breathless eagerness than
by that province on the western side
of the Carpathians which is cut off
from its kindred and bound by letters
of iron into a sheaf of alien races.
Magyar, Slav, Bosnian, Croatian, Teu-
ton-with his fellow-subjects of Kaiser
Franz Josef the Latin iuhabitant of
Pennsylvania has absolutely no sym
pathy. On the contrary, he detests
them, n and all, though he reserves
his deadliest hatred for his hard task
master, the Hungarian. But with the
Roumanian on the farther side of the
Transylvanian Alps he has all things
in common, blood, language, descent.
ROumania, the Romans land Transyl-
vania, that part of the Romans land
which lies beyond the forests. And
that part which lies beyond the for
ests looks with unspeakable longing
for the deliverance which the Haps-
burg's overthrow will bring, for that
victory which will reunite her to her
kin, writes ]. NJ. Dodington in Coun-
try Life.
1t is an interesting land, that which
lies beyond the forests, and there is,
perhaps, no quainter town in Europe
than its ancient capital, Kolozsvar.
Embosomed in trees, it's ancient
houses straGgle over several hills, its
two ripping rivers are crossed by pic
turesque covered wooden bridges
which rival those of Lucerne and
Florence. Its narrow, unpaved streets
are lighted by electricity, but santa
ton, in each and all of its branches,
is totally ignored, and in it's main thor
oughfares, beside the lines of the cleo
trio tramway, run open sewers. These
discharge themselves into the two riv-
ers. l may add that the visitor has q
not altogether agreeable sensation
when he observes the br~own-skinned
washerwomen pounding his linen on
the banks of the said streams and sub.
sequently rinsing 1t in their turbid
waters!
In these narrow, unpaved street:
there are many lofty and spacious
mansions, tenanted by the haute arts
tocratic of the country. Like the pa,
lazzi of Florence and of Rome, the
ground floors of these are entirely oc.
cupied by shops. On the first floor
the piano Mobile, lives the owner iii
sufficiently well off to afford such
~lodgment). The upper floors are lei
to tenants of many degrees, whose
station varies in inverse proportion tC
their altitude. II the owner of the
mansion Is a poor man, he himself
."goes up higher"
Standing solitary on a hill outside
the town is q whitewaShed fortres.
from which one has a superb view ove
hill and dale, over forest and river
away and away to the far blue line
of the Carpathians. KOlozsvar also
possesses a fine public park, under
whose fragrant lime trees a magnifi
CEN Tzigany band d%iscourses wlldes'
music.
Market Day in Kolozsvar.
But the greatest charm of the little
town lit has a population Of but {
bare 10000 souls) is its market day
Then, under the largest and mos
gorgeously colored umbrellas in Eu
rope Il should imagine) do groups O.
the most picturesquely attired coun
trywomen assemble, surrounded by
piles of the most delightful fruit anC
vegetables, downy peaches, crimson
plums, luscious grapes-purple, yellow
and white-rosy apples, blue-blacl
figs, blood red pOmi d'oro, gigantic
melons and cucumbers, huge red pep
pers, produce Of garden and orchard
of every color and form, and al
framed in garlands of roses of ever!
imaginable hue. Present everywhere
roaming and roofing among the stalls
are focks of long-necked geese anC
herds of the peculiarly hideous swine
of the country whose happiest hunting
grounds are the Transylvanian for
ests.
Most beautiful forests they are
which clothe the foothills, magnifcen