THE TCLIP LEAGUE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12508, 22 May 1906, Page 7

THE TCLIP LEAGUE.

I ihe tulip, says the "Daily Mail's"' Budapest correspondent, has become the emblem of portervid Hungarian sentiment and a.nti-Au»trian feeling. The Hungarian man or woman who dees not ; now display a tulip is reckoned devoid oi national patriotism—a pro-Austrian. ■■ flic Tulip League" has been formed as the most practical expression of tho Hungarian lite-and-death struggle with .Austria. It is changing the dress and hah'to of society, aaid producing astonishing movements. To this organisa- , tion, originated by the students, and numbering now 24,000 members, belong ' many ot the chief ladies in the land, ■and the scions of some of the greatest ! aristocratic families. Its latest out- [ tome is an actresses' society to sell tulips in the popular thoroughfares of the city on Sundays and holidays, and i devote the proceeds to the political i anti-Austrian fund. Tho declared pur- ■ poses of tho Tulip League aro the boy- | cotting of all articles of Austrian industry, and, that the members may be the lK*t'tor able to give donations to the Hungarian National Fund, they have bound themselves to avoid luxury of di-efi'i and living, and to give up playing hazard games. Tho emblem or the ! league worn by all its members is a ! pretty brooch, with a tulip design worked in tho Hungarian colours—red, white, and green.