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Show THE CITIZEN - lntonvenience lilm. as he did nut frozen wait for me. He kissed my 4 Put tw0 chairs for me by the ft0 for me and one for my feet on all the r had melted and turned D candelabra he Baid, of the crystal quite busi- HI have an agreement, like I sliall come and stand by the for five minutes every of your work X1 meat ve mi ' mu ow 1 of course the five minutes and we talked and very enlarger, all track of time. When ,ked and lost Have I he asked, telephone rang were manners His permission? i said to him: "I can not Ing. courteous Qover it, how amiable and A 1 understood you were a very am I to say to What Agreeable man! ask me, Upie in England when tney is monster Trotzky? W sort of a look he said: Tell mischievous h a " (But I in England, tell them I said to him: You not tell them!) The not a bit like your sister ow of a smile crossed his face, but he ur answer. not threatened to gjd Mrs. Sheridan as a hostage, but d explained to him that it would be jfiio use. If he threatened to shoot becauv Winston Churchill would say was v tiSoot. He himself was of the same uind aft as the Bolshevists, with fight, frotzky. humorously am liief tie: lie sal: l Se, jrotzky said suftir "us at e is that England was the enemy of Bolshevism. France was jjst a noisy, hysterical woman, mak-Si- f scenes; but England that is dif-tae- Ml this and fanaticism." t Mi nt altogether": lan ! n-hil- He e then busied himself I worked & pipers. ever spoke. But md at his table with for an hour and we he never disregarded as Lenin did. I could walk round nr Lanin Te Iftiii- - and look he nce. Whenever I go near Trotzky he his work, with up sharply from apparently oblivious of my I Ihat he at him from all sides, remained absorbed in his read- - while ! ooks saif in iteming di jface it-- eyes, and I prese- forget which part of I was intent upon. Towards the the ndjOf evening, when even my tiptoes tiling has aroused him, he asked me, "Afez vous besoin de moi? I replied wk as always. He came and stood by hcjclay, but he is very critical and ntches It and me all the time, and makes nijnervous. I undid and did over again i Mod deal. The room was hot, and the got dry; it was uphill work. Never I done any one so idfficult. He is e and irregular. At one moment the looked like Sciplo Africanus, and I iminiiM st It linst il see he was dissatisfied; then when bid altered it and asked him what he boight, he stood for some moments in with a suppressed smile before he go; it looks like a French Bouregoois. who admires the woman bo is doing him, hut he has no connec- Communism! nwlth It veet, iirity Re jn. Minim i i i i't . i.ane ; ! : : , 1 author arranged with Trotzky then when she N ready to go home she remembered order against being on the streets She asked Trotzky what she do about ?yld it and he said that he work at night and tateelf would take her home: ' n a nuarter to midnight when I to stop work and looked desper- jMred 7? ! Cliy ! ! .iiiimf' vi 1h rlock: "What about this order am I to he home at midnight? I 11 take you myself. f i after midnight we left. A in1 iUt unIfrm Joined us and sat next to He had in his hands a very r holster- - We started off by , n PPOsite direction to the right had to try to describe to them ay 'Ve turned back, and crossing were stopped by five ft5 with the holster had to our papers by the light of the qar jg 4 il T sol-m- Cltf an lamp. It delayed us several minutes. I said to Trotzky: Put your head out of the window and say who you are. Taisez-vou- s, said Trotzky peremptorily. 1 sat rebuked and silent until we were able to pass on unrecognized. He explained afterwards that he did not want them to hear a womans voice in the car talking English. I was talking French as we always do together, and what does it matter to any In this country whether there is a woman in the government car or not but I did not argue. Trotzky had made himself rather a nuisance by his critical attention to the progressing work. It made the artist nervous and she complained. Trotzky apologized profusely. All he wanted was to help and he promised to behave better: 13 ; Buddhist sheaves of idols; dice ior use in divination; sacred temple banners tnese are among the religious objects collected COLLECTION t'HUM TWlT. prayer-leaves- Out of Tibet, the secret, remote, and forbidding, there has come to us a treasure-freigh- t to which clings a poignant and somewhat sinister atmos- phere of Oriental mystery and barbarism. Once again has been lifted a little corner of the vast curtain of silence behind which the strange and colorful drama of Tibet goes on, and we have been given a vivid revelation of life in the secluded land. Often before missionaries returning from far-of- f countries have brought back costumes, weapons, and implements which have thrown light on the customs and culture of the people who had made them. And now again a missionary Rev. H. Marx, for sixteen years attached to a Moravian mission on the Indian side of the Tibetan border brings such a collection large and rich in variety and interest. Through funds provided by J. P. Morgan the collection has been secured for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and has been placed on exhibition and examined by many visitors. There are 230 pieces in the new Tibetan collection, and they cover probably every phase of the life of Tibet. by Air. Marx. Supplemented by what we know of Tibetan religious practices, they invoke a striking picture of the sacred temples, the pilgrimages and mortificasacrifices, the tions, and the great religious communities in which lamas, living thousands strong as in a vast, barbaric monastery, carry on their weird traditions and ceremonies. Of weapons there are in the collection daggers and sabres, ancient bows and arrows, and poisoned implements of war and the hunt. And there is a heavy Tibetan gun, with its attached rest on which the Tibetan always supports his gun when firing. The spark for shooting off the gun is struck from The favored of all his the tinder-box- . gods must be that Tibetan who is able to hit a moving target by means of this clumsy firearm. Harness and trapping for their horses, drums and bells are also included in the Tibetan military outfit. Here also belongs the imitation skull, trimmed with artificial teeth and long hair, in which the warrior catches the blood of his slain enemy, which he drinks to gain new vigor for the fight. In his calmer moments the Tibetans savage breast is charmed by the self-inflicte- - ' The worst difficulties were surmounted. Trotzky stood for me in a good light and dictated to his stenographer. That was excellent. His face was animated and his attention occupied. I got all one side of his face done. Then came the quest of the other side. He laughed, suggested another dictation, offered to stand in another position, and called back his stenographer. When we were alone again he came and stood close beside the clay and we talked while I went on working! We talked a little about me. He said I should remain in Russia a while longer, and do some big work something like my VicAn emaciated and exhausted figtory. ure and still fighting and that is the allegory of the Soviet. I answered him that I could get no news of my children and therefore must go back. I must return to my own world, to my own conventional people whose first thought Is always for what the world will think. Russia with its absence of hypocrisy and pose, Russia with its big ideas, has spoilt me for my own world. Ah, that is what you say now, but and he hesitated. when you are away Then suddenly turning on me, with clenched teeth and fire In his eyes, he shook a threatening finger In my face: If when you get back to England vous nous calomniez as the rest have, I tell you ." I will come to England et Je vous He did not say what he would do, but there was murder In his face. I smiled: That Is all right. Now I (Then know how to get you to England. I go can to fall In with his mood): How back and abuse the hospitality and the chivalrous treatment I have received? He said, it is not abusing, but there are ways of criticizing even without abuse. It is easy enough here to he blinded par les saletes et les souffrances and to see no further than that, and people are apt to forget thatt here Is no birth wtlhout suffering and horror, and Russia is in the throes of a great accouchement. al--rea- dy There are native costumes the mens consisting of a small hat trimmed with artificial flowers, long woolen .gown, shawl, and belt, coarse woolen trousers and shoes with heavily felted soles. The womens civil dress is much the same, but includes great brass pins and silver filigree ornaments set with turquoises and coral. There are large earrings and finger rings also of silver and set with turquoises. The necklaces, made of very large beads of amber, coral and turquoises, are worn as ornaments, but also have a religious significance. For their colors are recognized as symbolical. In some parts of Tibet there are three, in other parts five colors recognized as symbols; yellow for the earth, blue for the water, red for light and warmth, green for the wind, and white for the clouds of heaven. The five colors are used in the elaborate costumes of the Devil Dancers, and in the masks used in the ceremonies for driving away demons. Of these, Todgam" the five-skumask, is especially celebrated and sacred. The five skulls surmounting the mask are supposed to be the skulls of slain enemies, trophies of the Devil Dancer, who represents a warrior of the old Tibetan mythology. Also of great religious significance are the dorje purbu, representing the thunderbolt. These are powerful weapons for the exorcism of demons. They are hurled into the ground by the lamas or holy men, to whom they are the most sacred and revered of all religious objects. Regalia made of human bones, carved elaborately; potted lamas, made of clay and crushed lama bones; lama-isti- c rosaries of shells; amulets and charms against bad dreams and fears in the dark, sickness, and the snow and leopard and wolf; prayer-wheel- s ll m On this occasion Trotzky sent her home alone in his own car. He kissed her dirty hand and said that he would always preserve a memory of une femme avec une aureole de cheveux et des mains tres sals. Mrs. Sheridan tells us that she and Trotzky read with much amusement the accounts then appearing in English in newspapers of a counter-revolutio- n Russia. CAREFULLY EDUCATED. My daughter is carefully trained." said she, To marry among the nobility. As to languages, she knows no less Than seventeen foreign forms of 'yes. M d strains of his primitive guitar and banjo, the double flute of reed or bamboo, and the oboe, which is particularly the instrument of the beggar. And for his enjoyment he has three-stringe- . d fashioned pipes for smoking tobacco (both dry and colled through water) and opium. These are all represented in the new collection in the American museum, as are also hooks in commercial and the more ornate classical Tibetan writing, and the first Tibetan newspaper, which was pritned on the Leh Mission Press of the Moravian missions. THE ENGLISH SPARROW PEST. We may admire the liveliness of the little sparrows, but they have driven away so many of our really beautiful and useful birds that we cant exactly like them. And the old nursery rhyme where the question is asked: "Who killed Cock Robbin? is well answered in these words: I, said the sparrow, with my bow and arrow I killed Cock Robin! Though quite small, the sparrow is a most quarrelsome creature, and seems to delight in annoying other birds. It also destroys much valuable grain, fruit buds, blossoms and even the fruit itself. Because our sparrows were brought from England, we usually call them English sparrows, but they aro the same birds that give trouble all over Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. The fact that they were thought to be eaters of harmful insects caused some New York people to bring some back with them after a trip to England. This big mistake has cost us millions and millions of dollars every year since, and should bo a good lesson to remember. Even after they drive off |