The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1921-10-27
Rumanan Girl Coming From Market.


the absentee landlords.
An interesting class the Rumanian
peasants form, with their peculiar Gus.
toms, their striking superstitions. their
primitive ways of looking at things In
general.
No Race Suicide Hero.
The evil of race suicide has never
invaded rural Rumania. 1t Is regarded
as worthy Of honor to be the head OF
numerous family. As In all lands
where many Of the people are more on
less illiterate, there Is high death
rate, though the fact that the bottle
fed baby Is almost unknown In peasant
Rumania tends to overcome the high
infant mortality that would otherwise
result
MANY hands make light work" is
proverb of the Rumanian peasant, Of
ten put into practice. Almost every
night there Is neighborhood gather
ing like the old-fashioned apple-cutting
or apple-butter boiling In early Amer
lean rural history.
One-third Of the area Of the country
toward the north and west Is inhabited
by semi civilized shepherds. Up In the
Carpathians in summer and down In
| the sheltered valleys In winter they
lead their flocks, sleeping in the opeh
with them and despising any other
shelter than that which primitive ma
ture and the starry sky afford. They
seldom speak; indeed, their solitary
| lives leave them little opportunity foI
| conversation.
But IL there Is primitive simplicity
In Rumanian peasant life, there Is ul.
| ira formality in the polite circles Of
Bucharest, the national capital. Tho
Paris of the East" its inhabitants
proudly call their city, and in the char
acter OF it's architecture, the ways OF
its people, the prices In force at Its
hotels, it justly deserves the title 1t
has vauntingly assumed.
Bucharest a Lively City.
This near-eastern metropolis Is
about equal in size to our own ma
tional capital, and yet II has twenty
times as many restaurants and cafes,
ten times as many streets lights and
twice as many theaters. 1t is re-
garded as the most expensive place In
the world for the well-todo and the
cheapest for the poor. Prices at the
Hotel du Boulevard are higher than In
New York or London, and travellers
who have visited Monte Carlos lead
ing hotels and then journeyed to
i 70
10 per cent to % per cent higher than
those obtaining I'm the hostelries OF
Monaco.
But IL their prices are high, their
service and their food leaves nothing
to be desired. The cuisine Of the lead
ing hotels and private homes Is French,
| and money Is no consideration-qual
lty is paramount. Some Of the finest
restaurants east Of Paris are in Bucha-
rest and the night life, with its pas
sionate, pulsating gypsy music, It's
sparkling wine. its beautiful women,
Its scintilating Jewels. its handsome
men, Is as gay and alluring as any
thing the world has to offer.
AS to clothes, everybody who pre-
| tends to dress at all dresses In the
mode OF Paris and the gowns of the
elite are as up-to-the-minute as those
to be seen on the Champs Elysees
Gambling flourishes openly and high
stakes are the rule rather than the
exception. Many Of the players own
farms as big as an American county
and their incomes are proportionately
large.
Surrounded on every side by the
Slavic seattle deep ocean Of Russia,
the bay Of Serbia and the gulf of Bull
garia-who can say whether in future
centuries the attriti6n Of the Slavic
tide will wear away the Rumanian
shore, or whether the great war will
have fixed political boundaries that
will be as firm as the geographic
boundaries themselves7