Evening star., 1924-01-13

ing, where the one house Of the
Hungarian Congress is now sitting,
Is combination of the east and the
west. 1t has a mighty oriental dome
in the center and more than q dozen
Gothic spires rising from it's walls.
I wish l could take you through
this national capitol, which almost
laves it's feet in the Danube. 1t COW
ers as much ground as our National
Library at Washington, and 1t cost
more to build. 1t was almost twenty
years in building, or just about the
same time that 1t took to erect the
great pyramid of Egypt. Tho actual
area is more than four acres. and the
dome is three-fifths the height Of the
Washington monument. On the out
side there are ninety statues, and
within you stub your. toe on = ma
tional hero at every step. The win
dows are OF stained glass. the floors
are Of parquetry or marble, and the
walls are marbles In many colors in
laid with gold. Some OF them remind
me of that gorgeous hall at Delhi
known as Dewan-i-kas. in which
there is an inscription in Arabic
reading:
'If there is a paradise on earth It
is this! 1t Is this! 1t is this!"
Some of the little things about the
building are exquisite. Had it been
built in Pennsylvania by the patriotic
public servants who constructed the
state house. venture all the barges
Of the Danube would have been need
ed to carry the money expended. The
gigantic electric chandeliers are of
brass, and oven the cigar holders.
fastened to the window stills or the
ledges outside doors leading into va
rious rooms. are Of the same highly
polished material. Each brass cigar
holder is plate OF solid metal two
feet In length and three inches thick,
with twelve grooves on each side the
match box and scratching surface.
so that twenty-four half-hurned ci-
gars can be accommodated while
their owners have gone into the house
or to call upon some official. I don't
know how each man tells his own
cigar, but 1 suppose 1t is somewhat
akin to the talent OF tho geese Of
the villages here which pasture to-
gether, but when the flock enters the
town each makes a bee line for its
own individual home.
During my trip through the build
ing the porter accompanied me and.
fguratively speaking, gave me the
keys. 1 visited the gorgeous house
Of lords. It's seats arc empty today,
but as i looked at them my guide
said: 'They will be filled as soon as
we again have king"
"And when will that be?" said I.
1T may be In ten years and It may
be in twenty, but II is sure to come
sooner or later. Hungary has not
had a king for 1000 years. We like
them, and we want one back on tho
throne"
My way into the top gallery Of the
house was up winding stone steps
like those OF cathedral. lighted by
windows with as many colors as the
coat Jacob made for his boy Joseph
before he was sold down into Egypt.
and when I came out it was into a
great dome-shaped room reminding
one of a mosque of Turkey or India,
Here again the east and the west
meet together. The lower housa NJ
congress sits in q hall which IA n
combination of cathedral, a mosque
/ and a palace. Above is a most Ror-
geous ceiling with electric lights in
brass fixtures. The galleries are d.
vided up into boxes like those OF a
theater. and each box has its pillars
carved and encrusted with gold.
There is slice cut out of one side
of the chamber. and against the fiat
wall In the break In the circle sits
the speaker, and below him on the
floor at desks running round the
four-fifths OF the circle in concen-
trio lines are tho members of the /
Hungarian Congress. There 10 4 lit
tie arena in front for the clerks. and
about this on red velvet chairs sit
the ministers OF state.
The members were dressed in busf-