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Show m u I STARTING LIFE AT FIFTY. H "It speaks well for the resiliency of the human race H that Mr. Romanoff, erstwhile czar of all the Russians but H now not even a district leader, should be able to adapt H himself at once to the new business of a new life. In ask- H ing the provisional government to let him in on the Loan H of Freedom he opens up the family budget as frankly as H a commuter tells of his bungalow venture. His request H seems all the more genuine because tho size of his sub- H scription list is to be contingent on future receipts. It H may be that he has boon reading one of a hundred Ameri- V' can "books on Living Without One's Income Without Pain H Mr. Romanoff himself is down and practically oui having only $450,000, but iLs wife has a little more than that nnd his daughter Olga has $1,500,000. We're ro y "" ' f organ. Sure, snys Slattory, but our wives are do' fine. Ib the new democracy going to help out a family which has, altogether, rm nora than $ 1,000,000, and which is, politically speaking, 'down to its last mujik? At this ('i1 i-n TVf ,nrf) inclined to guoss that the favorite rni' in V a leading dgar si. vm of the Nevbky ProgpekMs N with consequent and r;con:pqnpntial remarks about tht 1-icV of some persom.:n being alive: but that has UttU todo with the main issue. The fact is the Nicholas Roman- otstdmsvon of his prtemal acres. by a back to tho lam1 Pigl";Jjwid his ctmrpis tfeiuj $j amintorin wisely and patriotically the pinch of change that was left in the cracked cup in the pantry that fact is encouraging to every man. Starting life all over again at the age of 50 is no craven's task. Without knowing Mr. Romanoff's immediate plans, we suggest that while is own government, through no advice of his, is in an unsettled condition he call upon the United States for any little guidance he may need in new ventures. ven-tures. A postcard to the department of agriculture in Washington will bring him that delightful pamphlet "How One City Family Managed a Farm," or "The Home Vegetable Vege-table Garden," or "Poultry for Profit." Selling neat boxes of friend chicken to passengers on the Serbian railroad might eke out the family income, and German wives are famous cooks. Seven acres and liberty! With 900,000 rubles a good bargainer ought to be able to pick up the seven acres in some quiet suburb of Nijni-Novgorod. As for the liberty end of the prescription, that must be left to young Dr. Kerensky and his consultants. New York Sun. |
