Show II T- T c- c Laughing Eyes o of Olga j y- y Of Ot the many many- hundreds of women who came Into prominence In diverse ways during the war one stands out before all others on account of her wonderful dual Not yet 26 years of age she has accomplished more things in her young life than many an adventurous man i double her y years ars I I She has seen the terrors of death in every form and yet with all her ex experience experIence ex- ex of the hell of war and its ac- ac horrors abe atie still retains that thai quality which is every womans woman's pride pride femInine feminine charms Her name is a household word in Russia's vast for tor her deeds deed during the war brought her a fame shared only by such women as Joan of Arc and Catherine of Russia lussia The daughter of a poor landowner Olga off was born in Central Russia the district from which grain was exported to every country in tho the world Her parents though the owners of ot ext extensive property were comparatively lt poor and it was only with the greatest difficulty that they were able to give their daughter a proper education Olga was no ordinary girl Even In her school days she had strong feelings on the tyrannies of the autocracy which oppressed her country Long before be before be- be fore she had reached her twentieth year she had become a public speaker er on behalf of the Cause freedom Cause freedom of speech for tor the oppressed masses More than once she served a term of Imprisonment and on one memorable occasion her crime was rewarded I with the most drastic punishment I rUE LASH I She was taken into the prison yard forced to strip to the waist and a a few seconds later her fair tall back was streaked streak streak- ed with red lines the mark of the tho lash Is It any wonder that there grew up within her an Insane desire for re revenge revenge re- re Vengeance is mine mine mine- but I Olga paid no heed Her one thought I p as was to have her revenge on the tools I of autocracy who had haI subjected her to such indignities But her efforts were nipped in the bud for one of f RussIa's Russia s frequent 10 le volts broke out and soon and soon a large area trea 0 or o the country was overrun with the c ar czars czar's a soldiers who left no stone unturned unturned un un- un- un turned In their efforts to restore law and aId order Hamlets villages villagE's and towns were set 1 on fire fare and hundreds of ot people people many man of shot o ow them h down w innocent noi Those Thosa e 0 of who any escaped crime r 8 made were for the Steppes there t to die In hunger and poverty poverty and and this in the middle of ot wl winter S SAmong II Among the man many who fled from their homes through the blinding snow scantily clad foodless and buffeted by the biting winds were well Olga's Olga s parents Hardy though they were wert their privations privations priva- priva I were too much for them and they dropped by the wayside wayside victims victims oi ot shock famine and cold I And as Olga still In her teens tens bent over their frozen forms hoping against hope that a breath of life remained in the emaciated bodies she vowed that I she at least would mo lIve and take tal Vengeance yen en on their murderers This took place during the war ana it was some weeks later when Olga a shadow of her former self staggered Into Moscow just at the time when Hindenburg's Prussian forces had pushed the Russian steam roller into the fatal marshes at the great battle of the Lakes in East sla sia Russia's war minister had betrayed her and every man and woman in that tha vast country was called upon to rally to the flag in Russia's hour of peril And here the Russian women showed showe their mettle Hundreds enlisted in the Battalion of ot Death Death because 1 It was composed entirely of women each I of whom carried a a. little dose of poison which If overcome by superior forc forces s she was to take rather than fall a prisoner in the enemy's hands All Al vowed never ne to return to their homes home until the last Invader had been driven from Hussian anil Olga was one one of j the first to answer the call She became a member of ehe Battalion of ot Death and her extraordinary extraordinary keenness and efficiency soon raised step by step until she became commanding officer the founder and ana an commander of the battalion having been badly wounded When the battalion bat bat- tallon was in rest Olga preached communism com corn and soon had man many converts Came the revolution and the overthrow overthrow over over- throw of ot the czar czar Then Lenin arrived on the scene and Olga took her battalion battalion batta batta- lion to Petrograd ad where at an Interview interview Inter inter- view with Lenin she offered him two thousand nd women heroes They are at al your service she said to act at your will whatever you command we will obey But Lenins Lenin's only rep reply y was to stare at the girl in amazement Ho He had often otten heard of ot the amazing exploits credited to Olga and naturally had thought her to be masculine In the ex ex- ex a virago a something between a cave and a Russian guards- guards ri man n M Instead there stood before him a slender beautiful joun young oung girl with a lovely figure noticeable figure noticeable even beneath the rough soldiers soldier's greatcoat and laughing laug blue eyes which shone with laughter e and happiness ness And Lenin the man h In him m 1 fell I And now Olga Is the power behind R Russia Russia's s government government-a a position which she has held since the day she marched at the head of ot her battalion and offered of ot- to Lenin its services to the countr coun coun- tr try Day pay and night she has worked at I Lenin Lenins Lenin's s side planning suggesting or ordering ordering or- or dering dictating I I Y FOILED When the time came that Lenins Lenin's n I overthrow fellow dictator planned to his comrades it who was Olga checked his 5 schemes I engaged Sitting f is In in the state kremlin busIness one day busily with head bent forward his mass of eyes peerIng at a documents became became aware vore of a slight rOOm JI lie He looked up movement Quickly u in the I startled for he had heard no one enter him stood Olga a grIm look look- on her face Dressed pie le costume poking looking In iii a sImple aim sm- the picture of health she might have been a nUrs nursery ry governess or a government typist But there f s about was her something which hid had di distinguished distin- distin always terror and Trot ky t and hith ft wa was w with r th her In her amazement hand she that held he JIe ie gaVed at Or 01 S ra rather her dangled it It a revolver S I To 10 i r amazement beautiful his I visitor tossed the onto his desk deak where weapon It thud just by his rIght hand fell with a The owner of or the hand half halt rose lose and ami glancing I come visitor uncomfortably at his unwelcome unwelcome was Just about to make protest when a the girl Irl broke In A i Ah my mv friend frind I can fee see schemes T i know through game your our your here she bared her game And 7 teeth teeth- and mal In her the animal ani ani- came out Take that pointing to the that revolver yourself behave or And as quickly and as silently as she had come so she left knowing the man sitting there was beaten ne that |