Show GEORGIA BALKS AT CONTROL BY SOVIET melville chater gives N vivid picture of country washington agton with nearly dearly till all of the republic of georgia in the hands of insurgents seeking to throw off soviet russian Ilus control that country save in the capital tiflis and the black sea port datum batum Is in much the condition that it was in its independent days following the world war viar what the country was like before it succumbed to soviet influence Is told in a bulletin from the washington headquarters of the national yat ional geographic society quoting a communication from melville chater though one has penetrated fairly tar far into the east bast at tiflis says the bulletin if one expects vistas of caravans camels and at the well niel lie he will suffer disillusionment in his first impressions the golovinsky which runs through the heart ot of the georgian capital Is as handsome a bit of modern us sis can be found an anywhere with its resta restaurants arants and ca cates fes its je jewelers elers art shops and opera its vice regal palace the kt especially when ilien seen in the lounging hour Is undeniably deni denla ably bly elite chic wasp males here stroll russians georgians armenians Armen ians and the representatives of a score of mountain tribes who have business in the new capital there Is a splendor of uniforms arld and of sidearms the he caucasian national costume dominating the picture A very long swa swagger ger of brown or ray gray padded square at the shoulders with waist find and descending as a smartly flared skirt this together with high heelless boots a square astrakhan cap a clanking sword two magnificently chased daggers a brace of pistols and sixteen fount fountain alif pens strung across his chest represents what I 1 would term the picturesque tur esque scenery worn by your typical georgian in war in peace and in the bosom of his countrymen what I 1 have called fountain pens turned out to be more weapons hollow tubes anciently designed to contain ponder and shot one looks at these magnificently accoutered accouter ed swaggerers swagger ers with ihOr their stiff mustaches and close shaven skulls and thinks of comic opera and of the dear old kingdom of zenda also one trembles fobbe for the league of nations re fearing firing that the georgian will never consent to a reduction of his armament mere militarism hanri no mortgage on uniforms at tiflis everybody everybody wears one including school children and their teachers according to russian custom and hundreds upon hundreds of civilians are thus attired because clothes being scarce and es expensive pen they prefer buying some soma castoff cast off olt outfit the lounging hour bour Is Import important rini in georgia in fact there are some sixteen of these tr 0 the georgians day find and perhaps it be simpler to speak of the wolling hour two and three in the afternoon after noia down go 0 the steel lattices which guard lie silo shop op windows then tiflis resume its national pastime of jole de aivre vivre until six of the fol following loIng morning tor for that Is the hour when the georgians allm all M night lit parties break up break up I 1 mean with shots ex es hanged across the table the Geor georgian glan la Is renowned for ills hl hospitality ills his customary gre greeting etina Is while in tiflis you will consider my home yours fin an offer which was waa tendered us so regularly that we suffered I 1 may almost say from an embarrassment barras of homes dinner parties all night affairs tire the georgian dinner party a mighty matter of courses and am kinei begins at in the afternoon and lasts until 5 then there will be a lance dance in the ev evening eLlIng refreshments commencing nt at 0 and continuing between dance numbers until the lie company reels homeward in III the lie down dawn occasionally the floor Is cleared for a dagger dance it a picturesque find and barbaric business performed to a rhythmic accompaniment of handclap hand clap ping pine by sonic bome tall be skirted native ho prances murderously about with from five to seven ang daggers ers held beld be 1 tween ills his teeth I 1 the Geor georgian glan public function Is 19 a superb affair of uniforms heal healtha hj drunk buz h huzzahs celebrities carried shoulder high about the room and 1 a chorus of liveried trumpeters trum peters who sound fanfares fan fares at the lie close of every toast once again one realizes that hat though the georgians have gone red republican bendas dear old comic opera kingdom still lies iles deep in thel cheti hearts 1 |