Magyar News, 1990. november-1991. augusztus (1. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1991-07-01 / 9-10. szám
SUN, DUST, AND MIRAGE A child walking along a dirt road kicking the dust with his bare feet could keep an eye on a church steeple many miles away if he is in the flatland in the Alföld. If he would like to see a steeple that is much further away, all he has to do is to mount upon an oxen-drawn wagon and the horizon moves many miles away. It is that easy to expand the world around you. Riding on the wagon this barefooted youth could only see ahead of him, because behind, the trail of the wagon is heavily covered with thick, lingering clouds of dust stirred up by the slow moving, rattling vehicle. The zillions of dust particles charged by the hot radiation of the summer sun cling on to the motionless, laden, scorching air that vibrates in thick layers. In the yellow-blue sky thin, hardly noticeable clouds fade away not being able to hold their moisture. The endless row of vegetation, to keep their pattern, are struggling to survive on the dry crust of the cultivated land. The leaves are pale and are uniformly covered with the ever-present dust. In the distance, in the wake of the wagon, tractors, and even pedestrians, long streaks of dust clouds crisscross the scene. Around the edges of the horizon pointy little protrusions mark the place of villages. Protrusions that are church steeples. They are small from this distance, but when the barefooted child walks up to them, he might think that the steeple reaches up to the sky. At noon from these steeples the sound of the bells travel far, and they mix together in strange rhythm. From time to time they come together in a big bang only to continue on their way again. A sudden screech joins into these sounds. A bucket is lowered or pulled up at a nearby watering well making a sound of agony and the balance contraption reminds us of a giant insect attacking the earth. Around the well hoofs of cattle pound the ground in the hope to squeeze some cool water out of it. Suddenly a part of the horizon changes. Fuzzy horizontal stripes start vibrating, some with shadings in it, others just blank. They move, change places, disappear and come back. It is laboring. A phenomena is coming to life, a mirage is to happen. In the sky where moments before you couldn't see anything, a bigger than life image appears. Floating above the land there are trees, cattle standing on what seems to be a lake. Everything is pulsating with the heavy burning heat. The image comes and goes, shrinks and grows, then it takes over the horizon. The picture clears and to our amazement trees and cows are hanging upside down from the emptiness of the sky. One would ask the question: Is this the Twilight Zone? The answer is no, it is reality; it is the mirage of the Hungarian flatland. Joseph F. Balogh Stitch-groups of Mezőkövesd Matyó embroideries. Figures 1—8. Show the simple satin-stitch sewn over with slanting, zigzag, or plait-stitch. Figure 10. shows a satin-stitch framed with line-stitch, and sewn over again with satin-stiches. Figure 9. shows a three-branched-stitch with loop-stitch. Figure 13 is basket-stitch sewn over with satin-stitch, figure 12 a double cross-stitch, figure 14 sewn on thread, and figure 15. chain-stitches over drawn-thread work. * Ave Mária Áve Mária... száll az ének, Szent Patrónája magyar népnek Hozzád kiált szegény nemzetünk: Mutasd az utat és mi követünk, Oltárod előtt térdre borulunk, Zokogva kérünk Nagyasszonyunk, Vedd oltalmadba ez árva hazát S mi hálatelten zengünk Áve Máriát. Palotás Sarolta Maria Mathe, browsing through some old papers, found a newspaper clipping. It was from the Újpesti Szemle and it carried a poem written by her aunt in her teens in the early 1930s. We are happy to print it again. IN SHORTFOR THE HOT DAYS The American-Italian-etc.-Hungarian Peter Zwack (Zwack Unicum) is no longer representing the Hungarian government as ambassador to the U.S .A. A few days after his resignation a fire devastated his apartment in the Casde district * * * Kuwait acquired 10% of the Hungarian Technoimpex opening the possibility of an order in the order of $ 1 CO,0(X),000.00(Pretty big number.) * * * Scandinavian countries are establishing a $50,000,000 fund to help out cleaning up the environment in Eastern Europe. As you know, Budapest is one of the most polluted cities in the world. * * * Bela Király, commander of the 1956 National Guard, after returning from Hungary to the U.S.A. was involved in a car accident and suffered serious injuries. * * * Seven Hungarian military officers will serve in the United Nations peace keeping force in Iraq. * * * They started the restoration of the famous Feszty Panorama that depicts the Conquest of the Carpathian Basin. * * * Penny wise - Pound foolish is an old English saying. But what would happen if they take away the pennies? Well, the Hungarians will find it out soon because the Filler is on its way out Is it going to be little Forint wise and big Forint foolish?
