Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-12
IN THE DAYS NEWS
BUDAPEST.

Budapest, objective Of the Ruman- ian advance into, Hungary, famed for it's incomparable night life, before it suffered the rigors of war, outbursts of anarchy, and infection by Bolshe- yfsm, is the subject of bulletin from the National Geographic Socity.
 c. ToWnley -Fullam, ill 6 communi- cation to the Society, wildly de- scribes the pre-war gayeties of the Magyars and tells something of their temperament as follows:
 Tt is 10 o'clock in Budapest. Theat- CTS and opera, music halls and cafes, restaurants, and casinos are packed, for the serious business of the day has begun. To find an empty place one must go into the brilliantly light ed streets or go home. From now until long after the dawn has broken over Buda fortress, on the other side, the easy going, imporyident Magyar of the city is immersed in affairs which will not wait.
 ''He who never gees to bed and gets up at seven in the morning: never has money and spends it royalty: never puts off till tomorrow what he hopes some one may be induced to do for him next week; whose ideas of time are rather Oriental than Cen tral European; who makes haste, in other matters, with caution ard fore bodings. is guilty of much, bu- never of neglecting his urgent private af- fairs.
 Budapest is, after all, what Nature and the Magyar have made her. ! But to comprehend her to come into 1 intimate touch with the wonder of things Magyar. it is mot enough to understand the architect and all for which he stands. The city of the l Magyar has her own secret; she may 1 be experienced, but not described. 1 Never was 3 people more addicto7 to philosophy than this peopie-a phi i losophy frankly Teutonic. Never was q people mere prone to appeal to the sedative properties of half-bricks. Il would be different to finl a race more 1 fitted to govern, and impossible tc
 name one less able.
 The true Magyar would scern t.
 bear false witness against his neigh i Dor; he does not steal: Ee canno,
 curse; nor does he work on the sev-
 enth day, nor indeed on any other 1 The other commandments take then 1 chance.
 These things may not be quite
 convincing. But when we approach
 the question of tribute, the rendering unto Caesar of things which are no Caesars, 9he pure Oriental emerges from his purely accidental Western environment and is again in the tents of Shem.
 Take q typical, concrete. every day instance, Go into a cafe and order
 a glass of milk the nominal valut of which may be 15 kreuzers. Per
 haps the waiter will bring it, perhap:
 he will forget.
 For the sake of the argument ht brings it. The waiter also the boy who loads your table with yesterday: papers, also the man who swoops upo' your hat, also the Gipsy who pour: out his soul in alleged music for hi own satisfaction-and he is easily satisfed-also the disguised Marqui! woh happens to wander in your di rection, all must be appeased. Unde, 60 kreuzers you cannot well escape
 This, then. is the happy go- luck, Magyar of the City Beautiful. tn mercurial citizen who lives by chance
 who will stake his all and much Q
 yours on the turn of a cord or tn
 speed of a horse. to whom life is
 masquerade of the gods and suicid
 no crime, whose business is pleasure who will one day infallibly be ric Iby the turn of a lottery wheel. Thi is the strange anomaly who wo" fight for a woman in this world o , for heaven in the next, but who Woui work for neither in any world or an | circumstances whatever.