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National Geographic : 1914 Oct
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Photo b); A. W. Cutler THE MEZOKOVESD GIRLS IN THEIR SUNDAY COSTUMES The long brilliantly decorated ribbons of the girl on the left constitute as smart a dress as the Mezokovesd young ladies ever aspire to, except when they get married. Note the stuffed shoulders-a fashion which all ages of the female sex rigorously follow (see pages 362 and 371). no department would the capital suffer either rival or peer. The Magyar is proud of her magnifi cence, her success, and the splendor of her achievements as creator and inter preter. In any department save perhaps that of fiction Magyar literature has no second. In art there exists no better portrait painter than Laszt6; in music nothing on earth will ever compare with the joyous and passionate folk-songs. One of the greatest administrators, prob ably, that this economic age has ever seen, Ignatius Daranyi, who transformed the country from his place as Minister for Agriculture, happily, still lives. Fodor, certainly the greatest hygienist of the modern European school, and first Professor of Hygiene at the University of Budapest, was, too, a product of the city. To her engineering genius the long single-span bridge over the Danube is a monument; to her architectural taste the finest Parliament building in the world bears eloquent tribute. But it is obvious that a country 95 per cent of whose area is productive could never be adequately represented by its metropolis, however many-sided. The capital and the country are poles asunder. Each stands for everything which the other lacks. The asset of the State is the peasant proprietor, that of Budapest the commercial Jew. THE MAGYAR IS THE DOMINANT RACE One phenomenon, without due regard for which the whole trend of Magyar cult, its history and very being, would ap pear obscure and perverted, consists in the undoubted genius for dominion, coupled with an undoubted inability to assimilate, which has always been a note worthy trait of the Magyars as a people. At whatever stage of Magyar history the thread is taken up, the people appear as a minority; whatever the circum stances, that minority is always dominant. The Slav and Slovak bore them down by count of heads; the successive settle-
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