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Show ARISTOCRACY PEELS POTATOES AND CH0PSW00D Five Thousand Fugitives Seek Ordinary Occupation Occupa-tion in Warsaw WARSAW, March 5. Iriven from palace to hovel, soma of ihs members of the aristocracy of old Russia, now are peeling potatoes or chopping wood ere for a living. Five t hot: sand men snd women and children, aume of whose resounding VasnW titles once brought th-m homsga of rourtiers, are clustered here after hav-f hav-f uig fled to Poland before the bolshe vik!. Hrlpins; them to help themselves k Madam Iudmlla l.ublnoff. hernelf a refugte; though born a princess of one f the oldest RusaiAn houses and the hife f the former civil gorernor of "-" H'grpaw."" This remurkaWe woman Is conducting conduct-ing soup kitchTi-. sewing rooms and workshops for members of her unhap-y unhap-y class and taking orders from her are men who once commanded the arm ad forces of the Russian emporor. On har staff are admiral, generals, governors, mayors and members of tha old I'etrograd court, while har husband has laid a-'ide his gubernatorial dutirs ti become her secretary. SKTH KXAMPI'K, A beautiful 'woman, she hides the tragedv of her life under an optimism that is an example to the unhappy folk to whom she ministers. A woman of action, ac-tion, too. for she escaped from r'etro-grad r'etro-grad with her two sons after freeing her husband from the fortress of Petar and Paul and arming him with a fic- t itloua passport that enabled him to flee to Warsaw. Hera the family was reunited. Selling virtually alt she possessed to aid her fellow countrymen, Madame l.ubinoff, organi-ed the Warsaw branch of the Russian Red Cross, which Is being aided by the American: lrganiBStion. I sparing not hsrself, Madame i.ubln-sff i.ubln-sff has not spared the colony of refugees ref-ugees which included many or the former for-mer Russian nobility. In the soup kitchen and wood yard, which she ha ; Hta.bUahe4 -hi Husslsn nrttvndoxi 4 hurch at & podwal a squalid property prop-erty placed at her disposal are. work-Ingmen work-Ingmen and women of title at ia"ks which once servants performed for them. 1HII.IT-HY WOHKKH.l. In the dlniry little) courtyard r,en-erl r,en-erl t u lotiMky. formerly arihitecl at the Russian court, chops wood for a living wiih several offlcera of the crai-k Imperial guards, ona of whom has lost his reason and must be watched. In a small and dirty b-iWtng. Prince Mes-hcrsky, who was master of care-munies care-munies at the imperial court, peels potatoes po-tatoes for his dally brelt'l. In the crowded rooms the meals are served bv women of tha Russia-n no- v blltty Princess Rukoff, widow of Ad- miral Rukoff,. who was executed by tho ik bolahevikl: Princess Ouchtotnsky, whose husband was reputed one of the richest men in IVtrograd. and Is now cashier In the next room at 400U Pol- - )h mark- a month, the nqiitratant of $4 todav, and Madame Koudravwtskv, widow of the vice mayor of PetrogiaU, who waa put to death by the red revolution. R1K GRJIAX1I. Colonel Kessetaef f .f the Imperial Russian guards runs errands for Madame Iublnoff and refugres who collapse from pyfiTrsnoir while waiting for their food are attended by Mile. Caragesoff, a former wealthy resident of Petrograd. now a nurse. Working in an American lied Cross warehouse are twenty officers of the Imperial guards regiment headed uy M Ki-k''nsk , a lawyer of K iev. who arrived in t heiishupltIwith- nut li n iTe r cToTli i n g or fo o I w - r. He A.TtT his sister had been killed this winter bv Ihe bolshevik and that the capital of the Ukraine had become a city of the ilead. Madame lublnoff boasts a storehouse bout the sine of an American housewife's house-wife's pantry which Is in charge of Michael Shamchenko. the son of the governor of Tchernljoff, who whs killed hv the bolshevik! The ssslst- ru. et ore keeper Is Victor -- Horse nk a ho was governor of Novgorod. j |