Show I Snap Shot of 1 the Great fifth m J ExploIted In W and 0 RII r in 1 r o j n 1 II i roi r 1 11 n I I I i il Ih 11 ollie trip nt I lib libon on Q J tune wl tt the ervol 1 t 1 bl I j III tl A wc V V I tor L ester i HIS Is Leo Tolstoi the man who 10 l hat has done more than any other lIh Russian for the he betterment of off r JI f f the condition of the peasants In the czar ari domains The portrait shows 1 well the rugged honesty the Innate nf j simplicity and the he that are sr the main characteristics of Tolstoi 1 7 aristocrat by birth democrat by In Instinct InI I I 1 n t Needless to say he Is a man manof I I of strong convictions which he has hasby tt nt I f i by b Y means of his novels noveli made ma d e known k throughout the he world He Is one of ret the most loved and also the most l t I hated men In all Russia the t carries his teachings te Into TOLSTOI 1 his everyday life Ho Is an ar ardent ardent dent advocate of manual labor especially of labor In the fields There Therefore Therefore fore we find him following the plow digging harvesting The camera hill has caught him In a characteristic atti attl attitude tude Scythe In hand he has paused to consider some new theory some flash of Inspiration that has just come cometo cometo to him Tolstoi Is always thinking and energetically as he may wield the scythe the sickle or the spade his brain Is working even more rapidly and to greater purpose rom the field Tolstoi has hastens hastens BACK tens to 0 put pul on paper tho thoughts that have taken possession of him while at work Seated on a a low stool before the simple desk In his equally simple study he transcribes Ideas Idea that tha are later to be given to the world to the he Increase of his fame It may be that tha he has just Jus conceived an another another other Anna or Resurrection tion It I may be the germ of a new phase of his famous sociological phi philosophy philosophy It II Is certain to be a ames mes message sage that will be listened to 10 by the civilized world of the tho most striking tributes ONE ever paid to Tolstoi was by the theartist theartist artist who made the great teacher the central figure In a a painting depleting depicting a group of fisher fishermen fishermen men Tolstoi as a the Illustration shows U Is represented holding the end of a a net The painting was exhibited In St Petersburg where It was muti mutilated mutilated by a fanatical opponent of Tol Although the picture was purely a work of the Imagination Tol Tal Tolstoi stol Is no stranger to the th seine and the river bank and takes keen enjoy enjoyment enJoyment ment In this avocation who know the of to tobay THOSE bay would never recognize this picture as a portrait of the tho count but It Is a characteristic like likeness likeness ness of him taken iken many years ago In those days Tolstoi had not had his second birth and was the gayest of the gay He often orten looks back with regret re reo gret to the vagaries of his youth but at the same time admits that the ex experience gained then was a powerful factor In his development deve Another strong Influence was hit his young bride for his early marriage soon steadied him I of strongest beliefs ONE Is the necessity for physical recreation to keep n man In per perfect perfect condition The count Is an adept In horsemanship and nd when his health permits Is a strenuous tennis player He Is also a bicycle rider of no mean order but the machine beside which he Is standing belongs to his aristo aristocratic cratic son the count coun having given up his own wheel for the characteristic reason that hat since lees favored morta Is could not afford to possess a bicycle he had no right to one Needless to say his son has other Ideas better Idea of tend tendency tendency NO ency to run to extremes can be obtained than from this Illustration tion which shows the count In the garb of a Russian peasant blouse girdle and all At the same lame time Ume he has an air of authority which involuntarily involuntarily commands respect and stamps him as above the whose at attire I tire he affects Tolstoi may be at all II times a peasant In dress but he Is never a peasant In thought although no man has a fuller understanding of cf the soul of the great Russian under underworld underworld I world I |