The Saturday evening post . THE center of Europe, prior to therecent attempt of the male mem-bers of the Hohenzollern family tocorner the world, was occupied by thelarge and fretful combination of peoples known as theAustro-Hungarian Empire. Among the races who dwelt inthis so-called nation were Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Mag-yars, Poles, Croats, Slovenes, Rusins, Rumanians, Dalma-tians, Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and a number of other peculiarfolk. When an outsider strolled into Austria-Hungary andtried to get a quick but comprehensive grasp of the differ-ent national groups which made up the empire
The Saturday evening post . THE center of Europe, prior to therecent attempt of the male mem-bers of the Hohenzollern family tocorner the world, was occupied by thelarge and fretful combination of peoples known as theAustro-Hungarian Empire. Among the races who dwelt inthis so-called nation were Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Mag-yars, Poles, Croats, Slovenes, Rusins, Rumanians, Dalma-tians, Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and a number of other peculiarfolk. When an outsider strolled into Austria-Hungary andtried to get a quick but comprehensive grasp of the differ-ent national groups which made up the empire his brainreeled with a loud buzzing noise. Among the peoples in the old Austria-Hungary, forexample, there were Slovaks, Slovenes and Slavonians. Tothe newcomer, for a long time, each one looked like a typo-graphical error. These people ranged all the way from therefined and cultured individuals who lived in the greatcenters like Prague and Vienna and Budapest, usedwhipped cream on their chocolate and murmured muti-nously
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