Show S ORlES Of NEW EA RUSSIA if Elementary Mentality of the Masses Demonstrated by b Y Amusing Examples FISH MADE FREE BY TROOPS How Pretty Woman With Dogs and Red Ribbon Turned Hostility to Enthusiasm Man Enthusiasm Man With Red Umbrella Becomes pcr Per Per- I Political happenings have succeeded one another er so rapidly In Russia that French correspondents there have had little Time lime to do more than occupy themselves with them j and descriptive articles from those Journalists j Jour jour- our our- nali have been few regarding the effect of the revolution on the massof muss mass of or the people and its results in the provinces and among the peasants One or two articles however have appeared appeared ap ap- which throw some light on the mentality of the Russians regarded regarded- as ns asso I so different from that of other Euro Euro- I I Robert de Flers Piers associate editor of ot he time Figaro and now at attached ached to the headquarters staff of ot the i 1 army has had months of stud study of the lie Russian troops serving in conjunction with those of Roumania Here are some anecdotes from his latest article There Is a fine lake somewhere Inthe in inthe the he south of Russia which is connected connect d db b by y a channel with a smaller lake I where huge carp are raised The channel channel channel chan chan- nel was barred b by nets to prevent the carp from passing into the lar larger er lake and as food does not reach reach the troops In n the district too plentifully nor In great variety the officers were glad 1 to vary their mess with the fish One day some hundreds of soldiers were gathered in a meeting one meeting one of those meetings which have become a regular institution in the Russian army this ills year plunged year plunged In deep discussion there Suddenly Suddenly there was a l rush toward the he lakes lake and with cries crips of Sloboda I 1 Sloboda Liberty I Liberty I the men began to pull out the burners barriers and nets and destroy them The officers cers wished to prevent the destruction but nit the soldiers took little notice f 1 their heir reprimands be beyond ond crying Sloboda Sloboda Sloboda boda I Sloboda for the fish l I IA lA A noncommissioned officer explained the matter Fish are Gods God's creatures as ns men are Like them they have time the right to liberty But men can talk and so have made the revolution re while fish are dumb and can never make theirs It Is therefore our duty to aid them because it is contrary to nature to pen them up in order to capture them and easily kill them A Personage and Didn't Know It A middle class functionary a man who occupied a modest position in one of the tax-collecting tax offices and who was imbued with the narrow bureaucratic bureau bureau- cratic reactionary spirit generally found Cound in that class chanced to go out one day with a red umbrella under hl his arm A group of tants going to toa ton toa a n meeting meeting begged him to open his um um- brella lie He willingly complied and at once found that his bright umbrella umbrella- rod red being the lie revolutions revolution's color color made ma-le ma him a personage Women threw him flowers children were lifted up for him to kiss and he was at once made president of the meeting When that lint was over he lie was conduct conducted urt- urt ed In la triumph to a banquet and there too he lie made an nn speech eloquent having havIng having hav hav- ing discovered himself an orator without without with with- out having haYing ever suspected It Finally he lie was conducted to his home at a late hour by b several thousands several thousands of his free flee If not enlightened fellow From that day after Inscribing his name nume on the revolutionary committee he has hns never gone gone out without his red umbrella always s open For months every material from rom silk to the commonest cloth colored red has been sol sought for and made Into cockades flags streamers etc The smallest fragment of red serves senes as in an excuse for a manifestation Here Is It a astory astory astory story of a squad of Russian soldiers a 1 pretty woman a pet dog and a bowknot bowknot bowknot bow bow- knot of red ribbon The pretty woman was walking up and down the he platform of a little station station station sta sta- tion crowded with soldiers The men whose opportunities of seeing a pretty woman had been limited for many a month gazed in admiration and were prepared to make a manifestation In her honor But suddenly their feelings showed a change and cr cries es of oC discontent discontent discon discon- tent began to be heard A A group of soldiers sol sob diers Biers went up to the woman and severely severely se se- se- se verely upbraided her because a bow of red ribbon was fastened over the ear of her Pomeranian dog Such a use of the true symbol of revolution was shocking they said as It showed a wish to ridicule ridicule ridicule ridi ridi- cule the great movement The soldiers 1 shouted shrieked and jumped about t I i excitedly to the utter astonishment of I the time pretty woman and of the Porn But the woman extricated hers herself lf I from an embarras embarrassing position with the guile of a true daughter of E Eve e. e She took the ribbon from her dogs dog's head and placed It in her own hair Once more the crowd changed Its tone and it was amid enthusiastic cheering that she and the dog took the train a little later A certain general was suspected by his men of being only lukewarm toward toward to to- ward the new movement so a delegation tion of soldiers waited on him to ask him his real opinions Ill Til tell you Just what I am he said to them and you can tell It to every one I look upon my men as my chil chil- children children dren and so have no reason not to tell them the whole truth I am a Maximal Maximal- 1st anarchist After that brat I am run sure you ou wont won't want any further details The Time men went away delighted They declared to the regiment that held ul sent them The general gener l Is absolutely all right He Is KO so 0 tremendously revolutionary that we couldn't even remember remember ber bel the name that he said Logic of Freedom Two soldiers had happened to speak to a general and one had used the term your excellency as was the custom before the revolution The Theother Theother Theother other soldier afterward rebuked his companion for such a lapse from new principles You said excellency I Well of course I said excellency But dont don't you know that now you ou say excellency And why we say excellency and more 7 What Why Because we have made the revolution and now we are all free The first soldier was silent for a minutes and then remarked But since we are all free we are free to say excellency If we like to to The other soldier In turn reflected for a minute and then lien declared true after nil all The moment we are free we can do what we like Its It's that you ou see that's so difficult to understand But as that's really so I Iam Iam Iam am going to say excellency myself Then he added But all the same It wont won't be the same thing as before Ludovic Nadeau has found time line to tos s send nd to the Temps some Gome anecdotes about events in Petrograd after the I great revolution In the carl early days of the revolution a I strange-looking strange street sell made his I appearance on the Prospect As he wore a n scarlet cap a crowd soon gathered He was offering pamphlets at 50 kopecks apiece and could hardly 1 hand them out quick enough The natural natural nat nat- I ural Inference would be that the work worl treated of the revolution but as ns a n matter of fact it wa was a a History of I II Buddhism bought bou ht doubtless for n a I nominal sum as a n publishers publisher's er r One soldier as he carried awny away his bargain was heard to say I cant can't rea read but lots of oC comrades com In the barracks bur bur- racks can can I Before the revolution people bathed naked In the Neva but outside the town I Now the they are arc bathing entirely stripped within the town and walkabout walkabout walk walkabout about on the bridges and quays between between between be be- tween the French and British embassies sies The Tho men of ot 1703 were christened sans without trousers the tine themen themen men of ot 1017 1917 are suns sans without with out drawers dr The Petrograd soldiers anxious to Instruct themselves and occupy the leisure that the revolution has haR given them are great visitors to the mu mu- Their anxiety to Investigate everything leads them to pass their hands over the pictures and caress the statuary often otten marking It with their nails Notices Notices' have hare been put up beg bt ging comrades to 0 toun nothing Th The founder and curator of the Ethnographic Ethnographic Eth Museum l recounts that his staff starr caretakers cleaners etc has petitioned the government or for the suppression sup of oC his office on the ground that a curator Is useless In a museum that he does loes nothing costs money mone and amI andIs andis Is of no service as the they who carry corry the le keys s wield the feather brooms and clean the lie floors are the lie real cura cura- tors How to Be a Civil Engineer In a manufactory the workmen In a n bod body waited wafted on the civil engineers to tell them that the old order having leaving passed away there here must be no more slavery Everyone must work In turn So you will kindly some of you rou gOdown go godown godown down Into the tile mines and others fire the engines And who will do our work asked the engineers Some of us will take turns In your offices But what will you do there The IThe same as you you sit sit around sharpen pencils and smoke ciga ciga- tf tr trOn On Sunday July 8 M. M saw sawa a crowd moving along the Prospect carrying banners half blue half yellow ellow all right said a nJ middle class citizen to him Revolutionary RevolUtionary Revolutionary red seems to be bc going out of date When the column had bind approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap It proved to be composed almost almost al al- al most entirely of soldiers enough to form two or three regiments Their banners for the inscription Long Live the Government which seemed to show that It was WIlS a patriotic manifestation manifesta manifesta- tion but others had Long Live the tIle Ukraine Long Live Independent Little Russia Long Live the Independent Independent Independent Inde Inde- pendent Ukraine p Time The soldiers lJ to the grad garrison and were natives of Little Little Little Lit Lit- tle Russia manifesting their desire to tobe tobe tobe be enrolled as soon as possible in the purely Ukrainian army that is being formed In the south No one Interfered with their separatist demonstration Some soldiers whose whose bearing was anything but martial were taking up too much room In a tramway to please the female conductor who rated them vigorously with all the extraordinary authoritativeness which women In Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia always display toward men You soldiers I Go on 1 You only have soldiers soldiers' soldiers soldiers' soldiers soldiers' sol sol- diers' diers clothes that's all aU Its a shame to treat a poor wounded wound wound- ed man like this murmured one of themY them You Y ou wounded retorted the con con- ductor If you are wounded It must be In the left nostril and by a- a cork from a bottle These Illustrations of Russian temperament temperament tem tem- are declared to Indicate the difficult task confronts to direct such a people and ond to keep them steadily In the path that he would have them follow |