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Show BEGGARS MBWY AS TEA'S SERVED j Moscow Mendicants Sit About Campfire Like American Hoboes MOSCOW. Oct l The beggars of Moscow have been enjoying resumption resump-tion of free trade under tb sovlot rpplno nearly as much aj) the profiteers profi-teers and speculators. A year or so uro, when the government gov-ernment doled out everything to everybody, ev-erybody, the aristocrat and the beggar beg-gar alike, and mono )as of very little lit-tle use, mendicants virtually disappeared disap-peared from all their haunts at the various street corners. Rut with th-: reopening of trade, and when the dally parade of shoppers bogan anew, the beggars returned an.l apparentiv brought a lot of relatives and friends with them. APPEAR HAPPY LOT. The professional beggars of Moscow Mos-cow are a happy lot when off duty. They congregate In vacant lots and In nooks and corners of tumbled-.lu tumbled-.lu v. n Lulldlngfi, where they gamble among themselves; Joke and laugh, hold their tVasts .apparently oblh -lous of the pant or the future, and have quite as Jolly n time as apy group of average Individuals. The noh-profeMlonaia the men and women of the better class of other days who Leg only as ft last report, do not participate par-ticipate tn these gatherings which are made up of tho class which has always been beggars and knows nothing noth-ing else of life. Tea Is served regularly at th be-rar.V be-rar.V reports, the walyr being heated In big black kettles TJlth a wood flic underneath. Tin cox- and broken, f I cups are brought Into use by the various var-ious Individuals, the scene In some ( respects resembling the camps of American tramps by th- road 'Side lo Ml III MOT BOSS bf.,(;ar cooks Lata In the day or during the eve-i eve-i nlng substantial food Is served, tlx?. I beggars palng the boss beggar Inj kind, or with a few rubles, for what-I J ever they may eat from the mess. The' i boss beggar does not actually beg I himself, his c hief duties being to I COOk the food brought by the others and to carry to and from their placc3: of "work" some of the beggars un- able to walk or crawl because of the.r I deformities. When a beggars' feast Is at Its height. In Moscow, as much laughter and as much merry-making may be; .heard as nnywhere In Russia. oo |