Show WEALTH AND POVERTY IN ST petersburg I 1 think tho the first impression that it a bight of st petersburg creates on the mind Is that of size the second it lct the contrast between the rich and the poor when you first look on the broad streets and open places on the fine quays quay along both banks of the revas reva fringed with stately palaces and residences and when you see the extent of ground that these palaces and barracks and pub ho llo buildings occupy you are rather carried away with a sense of the magnitude of the city the glided gilded roofs and spires of the churches glistening and glittering in the sun light rive vive an air of wealth too hat that strikes the mind very forcibly but when you walk through the streets and see bee the poverty that slinks along in the shade of the palatial edifices when you see face after face on which ignorance and vice are imprinted in type that he who runs may read reads a revulsion of feeling comes CO mes on and you are saddened it is unfair perhaps to judge of any place at a seabon beason when the upper are away in the country count rys and I 1 dare say that in winter st petersburg may present a much gayer appearance than it does in summer only in winter the condition of the poor is doubtless worse a and thus the contrast must be even more striking than at this time of the year yeary when it la Is marked enough there Is a sadness too on almost every face a cold hard look in those who are better ot off a look of dull despondency spon dency in the lower classes that is almost painful you yoa rarely bee aee a smiles smile oven even on young faces you never hear bear a hearty heal arty laugh even the children seem beem subdued and do not tumble about and shout about and j whistle as is the wont of children in i other lands so go that despite its I 1 palaces and churches churchea chur chun chea and statues and its broad and well well filled stores the Ru asian aslan capital Is not a happy looking place pince S JF catow oie ole |