Excerpt from Why Europe Leaves Home: A True Account of the Reasons Which Cause Central Europeans to Overrun America, Which Lead Russians to Rush to Constantinople and Other Fascinating and Unpleasant Places, Which Coax Greek Royalty and Commoners Into Strange Byways and Hedges, And Which Ind

The pe0p1e in the old austria-hungary ranged all the way from the refined and cultured individuals who lived in the great centers like Prague and Vienna and Budapest, used whipped-cream on their chocolate and murmured muti~ nously when there were fewer than fifty beautiful women in the ballet of Faust, down to the hard-boiled Rusins who wore sheepskin undergarments and slept on the mud floor of the living-room with the heifers and the pigs. They differed widely from one another in their traditions, their history, their religions, their languages, their culture and their national costumes. They had only a few things in com mon: not one of the different peoples of old austria-hun gary was ever satisfied with its government, each nationality had a bitter, passionate and unwavering hatred for at least one adjoining nationality, and all of them wanted to go to America. In these things they were alike.

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