Show jJ Ji r I t r kr v. v t t r t I 1 r s 's in m t j r Serge Sergeant ant i h oU pas Fe Feminine s. s i i I 5 ng Group t 1 0 I of c Ed T i- i V u. u nf of Death 1 i i I. I f r Sa SaI VA OH a I WhIch Performed fi f- f J J i Heroic Service Servie t te Eastern on OD the e s front in the Early j Days pays of the tho War x 1 r rW rY W Y 1 J 6 r 1 I I f fY fa ft t Y a i- i it a t 1 1 k kt t r y yo o 4 J r f rV t 4 dt 4 W I I t r I tl fr 1 i 1 r T T a af f w 1 I ry 7 II 1 o t L I r iBy By Elizabeth Van Benthuysen en AGAIN AGAI turned and the eyes eres of oC the world have toward Russia 1 and no glance in into to ID D th rice t obscure e murky mucky vastness can linger linter nn an accompany r in the ern wonder as to cn of of af the if tortured land What of or the lue women Battalion Wr Were WI w rIght in thinking that the thee the or of n Death the th was characteristic And It if e w women explain the T lighters were typical how shall we wo 2 tallow f collapse of ot the tho sl spirit shown in the then irl ot of Death f h What of Russia's n average lIon lIow dare ae toil follo ed o d i Ill WI she fare in th tit the upheavals that ono ouo another in 1 frightful iteration t. t 1 Ras l far n interested in these lase F of ot a hn bea quo ques ques- s of 01 ot R la 3 YOt young younS woman who has haa seen Y Ve-a Ve sm 01 Russia Russ la h high Sh and anil low Smi art ot of the mo a once the favorite singer o at th the e and tId the Czar title or of All 11 tho the before foro the fell Cell Is before befog o a squad uart ot of f the Bolor Bol Bol- no now n ork or who Rho have havo one Oue Uh-e Uh noted visitors to New ew tries Fro From m in this been f to eek seek safety In Ith vi tho rho Woman in Intimately acquaint acquaint- an inters social set that one once o ruled Petrograd interesting Sl story ry of at f the rice 5 P position of the le s the he and of at f the eyes eres through which u changing map of oC society 1 t Th The Thc c Drama if j of Ft a It U jr is a t uro that v th the tho AmerIcan it II hard to woman will tb the e tie i t ot of with Uh tS It H deals deal tot destroyed a social al pace now eclipsed ed 1 a e once eure of ot i a had the remarkable Do held hel eld l p g the Black Monk Mon hl I md and s grasp ra p and a goodly part of or nus Russia a te downfall nr of b being a Str strong r nB factor actor l ln In rhoe tho rho o ot of M e that lilacs YOU uncanny i Person I It t w was as et V rnO al oval of oC n sou pot P V Who was Accredited wIth It n ran 0 and 1 It II was v to to tic Prince hen t the e breathless with soli le noted roue In all 1 her b ill in his arms Russia attempted e of the yr Was as When hen they y had 8 warm h Ul in n a been to 0 a i ban ball a alho t Pe Petro fro Wit rho o W sine sinSel s r ducal lie He K a as Usual at such events end and her tried to take talo her hc in fn hl his came reSPonse e was a slap In tho the face Orla ec onton news ens to the tho Prince and princ Yoe said tot to th the he Dutiful beautiful P s and will tiiu IU be L woman lA le lea is than a aVenged in hours I that time Prince v a aI 4 I aw w t. t i a aVera B Beautiful eau t lU F t f LU I Vera V T era S r ova v Who T 7 no 0 Sl Slapped r appe d I th the e Face race L' L ace o of Oj I I th the e V Vera era and Who o Who Met Watched the Czar the tho and of Struggle Czarina U t tand 1 r Women Hated Haled Black Monk De Describes 4 0 the he Long Distresses of oj oj t the Upper Classes r S ar a- a I m r ff I I if in in inic the ic Torn I orn I Remnants Rem nan Is oj of 7 R Russia and the Lb e S Yv t Dazed Situation 1 I r r fir r 7 of the P Peasants y 3 t T Teressa ra ss an Officer v j in the t. t f wS k Battalion rr d df f t i of Death t L v x th a Y Jr M r c r 4 ax r K 3 J 4 61 p r rr Y r a kYt J y tJ f t N r a j C r lv l J v La n lays das ays when gallants might RO go o abroad without l fear ar arof of b being in felled b by those who button their collars on tho 1 side Bide It was a fairy picture that was presented presented pre pre- by Petrograd rad society There the most gifted men and women In the world went for or the brilliance of ot night scenes that have been rarely equalled even in Vienna and Paris It H was the Roman court without the gladiator and without tho the man at arms in his bare brutality I Courtiers were of tho the mode modish and polish was the symbol of the tho regime Out of or the tho great groat ignorant background of or Russia with its thousands upon thousands of or who ne never r thought beyond beyond be be- yond ond the terms of or a plow stood the scintillating circle of ot the capital rich accomplished and beyond beyond be be- yond rand the dream want t In a moment the picture was blotted Machine Machne guns barked ed on the corners comers Men were killed A 1 because they clean Women were starved because the they had not evidence of ot previous acquaintance ac with st starvation T atlon It was as though the fanciful pictures of at the Creation In which Chaos Is first shown and the then the gradual evolution o of Order comes had been reversed in a black blac Instant instant In in- stant and Creation had been wiped out with a blow O Out t of the Darkness And out of this chaotic blackness comes nova to say j what she thinks of or the lot of at the Rus Rug Russian sian clan woman and of or their future The Thc Russian woman she sho said to me occupied occupied occur pied pled a peculiar place whether you take ta the tho aristocrat aristocrat aristo aristo- crat or the peasant as ns tho t type pc Both were secluded se sea se- se eluded to a degree that the tho American woman cannot cannot can can- not understand Both were under the direction of at tho mon men to an extent that one living In a where a wife wiCe ma may vote the Republican ticket while her bel husband registers with tho the Democrats can hardly be bo comprehended The he husband is 16 master over there The rho wife wiCe merely morey follows She directs only where whore by force u J 7 S a k dt r Sr 4 Ras Ra utin rs f i the I Black Bla ck Monk Who Had Sf w Y x r r Entree to the Court of the Unfortunate Czar Ozar I tk A R r rand Y r w and Whose Face Was r w t s Slapped by Vera 5 A r r rr a j ji i 1 ii oJ J of at business of ot practical politics or of at the tho material things of ot life It was important that the tho child know her modern modem languages but not essential that tha she know whether tho the premier of England was wai wasa a Liberal or a Conservative When then the break came camo the means menns of or providing provid- provid Ing the kind of life Bre to which such women had been beon I s y g I 3 f t Y sk 4 r rw IW w F r Y li 1 w r r. r i r 4 raSA e A S 'S a h t w Y Y t vY f t R. R Russian Women of the Battalion of Death in Camp dog was found lying over oyer the dead bod body of at Tho The Black Monk The Tho monster Is dead said a message that came cam to a shortly after With this prelude one ono may mar take talce this Russian 1111 singer as an expert witness on matters touching the tho n Russian l court and tho the regime that existed when the Jr great at upheaval al came She was in jn the tho theay gay ay set iet when It held sway without question and she sho moved under tho the myriad lights during the tho of at brains and charm rm she can act net without having ln the appearance of or doing so 50 The da days s 's preceding the tho revolution found tho the Russian woman of the aristocratic class dass as ns tho the mistress of her bel own establishment She had her servants She was 1 provided ro jd d with funds She was dressed according to the tho laws of ot fashion anc her hor sphere was to be turned on as ns a light when the time came carne for tor social illumination Her education was entirely of tho the polite Kind taking little heed z pcr J Service Sr 1918 I i I accustomed vanished he There was no bank to which did not notre not respect re- re one might send for funds Tradesmen the command of or an aristocrat or the order of one of the elect an any more than they hoy did that of the unknown n stranger within the city's gates They respected only the bayoneted order of or a 1 common cornmon com corn mon soldier without a head from the duea educational For Par the officers who came mp Honal institutions of or Russia had bad been largely l displaced displaced dis dis- placed In the first tumult The Tho world world wa wag tu turned bottom side up and the bottom was In control Thus thrown at the tho bottom of at an order that she shedid shedid did not understand the Russian woman found round her her- herself self struggling to make malo tho the best of at a ball bad situation I believe bellevo that women adapt themselves to such conditions more readily than men and that there Is less of oC regret for the past and more of or making the best of at tho the present presen t expedient among them L L d wan there mere lucre is 15 among the toe stronger er sex So women who had been accustomed to command command com com- mand the daintiest service in their homes sought eagerly for black blac bread brend and soup and In some somo cases ases waited in lino lin with baskets for such supplies as the they might get when It would have meant In In- start slant death for one of ot their men to havo have gone rt forth In quest of them Thus it chine dune that man many of or the best besl known women In all of or the fhe empire were forced to immure im im- mure themselves in the Institutions of or the tho Greek Greel J chur church h. h There they did such small work as the they might and received receive the simple taro faro that the priests of at the tho church might still command 1 S Hiding from the Storm J. J With heal is a case of living In a social H cave e until the tic storm IB ie pa set They must watt walt until some new order ceder Is established for tor the master mastor mas mas- tel tor minds of or the revolution do not regard gentle i birth and breeding n 13 as any passport savo S1 to th wrath of the elements that once were held in check w r 7 y Many ran of the leading women of the tho court and of society social were seized and thrown Into prison Many Inn of oC thorn them died through exposure and through I rough treatment Many nn were wem clever cr enough to 4 disguise ulse themselves so 80 that tho they faded into tho the v it general picture cent and attracted no attention On the tho other hand the peasant peasant woman found l la a n new Id kind lI of oC freedom She might dare where whore her gentler s sister might not Sh She had nothing othin to lose and there was nothing about her manner manner or V f appearance to suggest that she belonged to the 1 hated cla class a against ain t which the tho bottom hallam had hail arisen r rOne t One of at tho most interesting features of the tho J change came me when Mlle Mile Vera Vora led to J the tho front her Battalion of Death It was not well J 1 armed and not well equipped but It was composed com corn f posed of or women who thought that Russia's place was as with the allies and ond that the men ought to o remain facing the German foe They went ent into 1 battle with will tho the men and went ahead of at them whoa when the tine men disgruntled b by German A ganda panda dropped their arms and started home k There hero is if no woman In the world who needs i f more mor the tho relief o otic of or t the outside worlds world's help than tic the Russian woman no matter what her previous i t status tatu She Sho dl did not JI live In the samo same world hat that r t we know Imo She was a creature of or protection and V site she he needed it When the chaos camp came and lInd th tine the prate protection had vanished hers her was indeed a s sor or J 1 T tk r ry l plight t |