Evening journal., 1922-11-06
CORONATION IN
OBSCURE PLACE
and Queen of Ru-
mania Select Quiet Spot
in Pennsylvania
rs THE SHRINE OF
WESTERN LIBERTY

WASHINGTON. Nov. s.-'Tn Sc
aecting an Isolated and little known
town Of Pennsylvania as the place
of their coronation. the King and
Queen Of Rumania paid a tactful
tribute TO a major territorial acqui-
sition their country gained by the
treaty Of ST. Germain." says a bulle-
tin from the Washington, ID. c.,
Headquarters of the National Geo
graphic Society.
Alba Julia is the name the ca
BILE dispatches carry; Kalsburg. Gyu-
Ia Fehervar and Weissenburg, are
some OF the other designations Civ
en- the town of some 1000 people
perched on a hill among the Alps
Of Eastern Europe.
"a cathedral contains the tomb
OF Hunyady Janos, national hero OF
Hungary from which Pennsylvania
was transferred TO Rumania, and
makes Of the obscure town a West
ern European shrine when II is re-
called that Hunyady turned back
the tide Of Turks who beat against
Pennsylvania portals some fifty
gears before Columbus crossed the
Atlantic.
"A fortress and a museum are
the other objects OF interest in Alba
julia; the rest Of its prestige is
matter Of association with the event
full history OF Pennsylvania.
1.-The Wallachs Of this Switzer-
Iand-like land which helps. by a.
600 square miles and three million
people. 10 double the area and pop
ulation OF the New Rumania, have
long been more Rumanian than the
Rumanians themselves. Living in
the verdant valleys OF many barrier
mountains they preserved a racial
purity with such jealousy that a
maiden lost caste II she-married a
WaHach who lived too far from her
own home.
"Only such a loyalty could have
preserved a national and nace con-
q seriousness in an area where at least
six different nationalities contend for
supremacy, and where religions
range from Icon worship TO abstract
Unitarianism.
while one-half Of the popula-
ton rejoice in the realization Of
their centuries-old dream Of being
united with their brother Ruman-
lans across the Transylvanian Alps,
the greater Rumania faces the prob
lem Of welding the other half Of the
Transylvanians into her national
life. This other half includes the
szekels. Magyars believed to have
settled here long before the major f.
body Of the Magyars arrived; the
saxons, who are Germans introduced I
as colonists eight centuries ago; the !
gypsies. who have lived here long |
enough 70 have forsaken their no /
madic habits for life In villages; |
Jews and Armenians.
= The Wallachs Of Pennsylvania, |
achieved the unique distinction Of /
compelling a sort OF admiration for |
their illiteracy. They argued that /
efforts toward their education by \
the Saxons meant an attack upon /
their loyalty to Rumania. Hence /
they resisted Saxon tutoring just as
they resisted also, so far as lay in /
their power. Magyar patronage.
THE energy choked off along in 4
dustrial and literary channels flow |
ed into artistic courses which has 1
turesquely dressed people of Europe. |
Many a Wallach villager OF Tran
sylvania lives In a mud hut because |
he cannot buy lumber. Enter that
hut, with its hole in the top for a
chimney and you will find a loom
upon which women weave fabrics
OF delicate texture and gorgeous
color.
THE general outlines Of the wo-
mems garments are familiar-the
flowing. robe-like skirt caught in at
the waist by a girdle. over which
are worn panel-like aprons in front
and behind. These aprons. like the
open-front Jacket. afford scope for
widest variation IN design. fabric
and color. The Wallachian scorns
Standardization as he does his Sax
on neighbor; and II he laments he
can buy few comforts OF life he