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Show PAY NO ATTENTION TO SPRING FASHIONS ODESSA, April 15. Spring fashions fash-ions do not bother tho women of Odessa. They have no new fashion Journals nor cloth with which to make dresses. Women sometimes have a hat and a few yards of rough cloth to clotho themselves. Underclothing Is an unknown quan- , tit' So are stockings for the unlucky. un-lucky. Women who have cloaks or furs' wear them In daytimo but at nlfchl leave thmi home. If thoy did not they would he robbed In the darkened streets. People who go to the theater travel trav-el homewards In groups for protection. protec-tion. This lack of clothing hits very h.ird the younger girls. One of them said to the correspondent' "I should like to go abroad, If only to get nice clothes." Tho older women In RuaMa, when talking of the chance of over getting abroad, say, "After all. If we got 1 broad we would be very poor and 1 frol our poverty moro by the contrast. con-trast. Here we are all dressed alike ind more "or less In rHgs and so long 18 wo can get food enough perhaps l la best j that we stay In Kusala." |