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KEATING'S

THE WOMEN OF NEW RUSSTA

LIFE IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

Mrs. Francesca M. Wilson writes in the Manchester Guardian :-

When you first come to Russia you have a notion that you will fad life radically changed by the Revolution Then after

you have travelled for some days over monotonous and douce country of mines and birches and gentle undulations ami, farther east, over vast análtering steppes, you fut

FRIDAY, JUNE 28TH, 1923

BUFFERS FOR DANCERS, INGENIOUS INVENTION.

modern

PARIS, Maynd. Terpsichore as well as politics has her parties and groups, ranging from high- and dey Tory to Commnuist, and the mote- worthy feature of the International Con- gress of Maitres de Dense which is just concluded its sitting in Paris has been the determined attitude adopted by the con servative element in the

the face of the centricities

ic of the

with laud can never change that goes on, you feel, abia seriousness, and far the most part they indifferently and monotonously, however set their faces sternly against anything that cataclysmically the Government of their is not exactly comme il faut Thas, as stated already, the congrey has listend country changes

But this is not altogether true. Into the sympathetically to some strong denuncia- remotest village the Revolution has brought tions of the present-day abandonment. some change--Narodny Dom where there of the classic and the graceful in favour of are plays and concerts on holidays, a little movements which are certainly not classic,

and which some go so far as to label school which the Government has encourage the peasants to organise, a Soviet elected graceful,

One of the most interesting proposals by themselves and not so different from their

brought

forward by those whose motto is old Mir, but with

standing and im kex

is the wearing by stateliness and decorum, portance.

At the moment, of course, the main ladies of a special belt, invented by Professor difference to the ordinary pensanta mind is Rossi, of Roooo, and christened by lim the Princess Lily belt. In front of not the schools and the Soviets and the Narodny Doms, but that life is harder the Finces Lily belt is a metallis plate, and more cruel than it was in the days of on, which are fixed' three very prominent the Tur

After the Revolution a large to preserve a suitable distance between the

and terrifying buttons or studs and their animals of their portion

stocks requisitioned, and on

of this came partners. This frontage to the belt were

P de their lives host appropriately be ming that inde

to the be likened t the years of famine

engine, though & railway. as naked as the parched land around them.in front of a

an attempt has been inade to conces! To most of them the whole disaster is

of ribbons bound up with the Bolshevik regime. They its crudity by an artatic wealth

and bows, and its inventor claims. do not realise that it was the long con- that ita

would inevitably tinuance of war that devoured their stores and made them helpless before famine more banish what he than anything else and blockade that drove Away from their markets the simple wa tarinks they had been used to purchase.

an equally "firm' conviction that the life professora regard their ball-room The

only

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This attitude of wiatrust is increased by the bud administration prevalent in most parts of Russia far from the centre is paki for meat work is

not badly but irregularly, and usunily when the rouble The its value.. has lost a great deal of Bolshevik officials in local government jobs aro as corrupt as their forerunners and les educated. It is the bane of all revolutions to their that they attmet the unscrupulous to banners as well as the idealists. The mesango of the Bolshevika, comes to the country people, therefore, through muddy channels. and fails to strike them as an inspiring ideal Indirectly it has an effect upon the gatlook eyen of people as slow-moving as peasanta

THE HARD LIFE OF WOMEN,

not

lopibed as some of the

Jay

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of of dancing te l aspects rupellent instrument is, in sort of an anti-bunny hug, and it will be interesting to see whether it will be taken with alacrity by the dancing enthusbut and his sweetheart. It appears that the Princess Lily has met with the unstinted. of the clergy and ruedical approval

to wen

when Professor si bas

it-but who submitted bappily be called upon to encounter its painful contract. It would be a most in- spiring and edifying spectacle to see young ladies who frequent the Moulin Rouge, the Bal Bullier, or the Bai Tabarin, all equipped with this chaste cointure.-Daily Telegraph.

nove?

ed to me that the peasant women have a freedom, an emancipation, that we know nothing of.

Of course, na far as Governments are con

You come across other women with cerned, the Russian peasant was always an Anarchist. If you make him if it was better cropped air and young faces, weather beaten from rough experiences-they are under the Tears be shakes his head nul sighs. Cossack girls who followed their husbands In was no golden age then, either there the war and tended the wounded on the were heavy taxes and dues to the landlord

battlefields. Now dry live demurely in and Bng

for moreover,

enough fand

some little brown hot and weave, or work the

They have no desire and pensant.

the tin ds like other women. And their in no incentive to make a 100vement to hring the landlunds back again. The anti-menfolk are proud of what they have done Semitic riots in March in the Ukarins were in their past or else Recept it passively, as the usual time-honoured pogroms, and in they accept the women who are any case such movements are very isolated presidents of their village Soviets. and have no repercussion in other parts of

Russia

When you come to the women you are inclined to assume that their lives will be

•You su water

Lass changed even than the ment

Juas

WEATHER REPORT.

How

them throughout the year.

27th at 1964-Warning to Hong from, the wells, doing their washing at the kong. Coast Ports, &c.:-Depression or riverside, baking bread in their great ovens, typhoon of auksown intensity within: 12)

And pancakes holidays, in the miles of

and working in the fields and in.

-summer

mov .ng

13 deg. N. Long. Tia ; eg, t..

kong Coast Party do:-Depression or typhoon of unknown intensity within 120 miles of Lat. 15 deg. N. Ling. 126 deg. E moving NW... - E

the winter henting out their honip Janeth at 9.50.-Warning to Hong and flax and spinning and weaving in to cloth for the family. You see them bearing and rearing their children along sire their other labours, and you feel that this is what they have done for thousands And thousands of vars!

And

yet the change that the Revelation has brought is perhaps more, raclient for them than for the men. When you find the mothers sending their little girls to school and even sallying forth themselves to at- tend the adult classes which are everywhere springing up in peasent communities; when you and them perfectly passively accepting another, peasent woman as president of their village Soviet, you feel that the change is greater than they realise. How, one won- ders, have both men and women sccepted it an easily f

June 28th at 11.31-Pressure has decreased slightly at Soanghai and over N. Indo-China. It has the Videred slightly from 3. Formosa to

At 6 m

at this morning the typhoon was about 3 0 miles E. of Manila moving N.W.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours coding at 10 am, 28th June, v.10 inch. Total since 37.89 inches, aguinas 35' éversga January of 37.93 ind

The form for the 24 hours ending at noon, 29th June, is as follows...

DISZKIOZ

FORECAST

Hongkong to Gap Rock S. or variable winds,

moderate; fia;

Formosa Channel

8. or variable winds, fresh ning from

N.E. later.

The great strength of the Russian people is that they have to assumption," Kaid a wise English woman to me once Perhaps this is the secret of their power of Accepting change. Just as they have no regular hours. for raeals or rest or work, bat eat and sleep and tuil when they feel. Bonih sonst of China between The aims the

have Bongsong and Lamooka i No. 2 assumptions as to what can and ought to do and change in this line as readily na they Accept bave in the famine area adopted camels for ploughing or harnessed cows to their waggons to do their hauling, although no peasant of their district had seen these beasts in this capacity before.

ved doing, so they ne

A PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM."

癯

Bouth coast of China between. The mme sa

Hoogkong and Hainan. No L

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

It is certainly true that women of the nineteenth century had less a senso of barcier and bondslip here than in Western Europe, that public opinion did not assume fur them so exactly how their lives should Earometer

led as to hinder them from doing what Temperature

If they did have ambitions Humidity they wantediary

Women of the in-Wind Direction out of the ordinary. telligentzia entered the professions, becoine

Force

Hongkong Observatory, June 28th.

Previou On Date On Date

“Thije. attum-dam. 9 p.m.

71 29.73 99.70

78.

lawyers, M

0.10

women, like

tion, as the universities and

felaheritas, doctrlier

even.

gronomes, and Weather and more Bain

printesels than they did in our country

0.22

like peasant inen, were Hightest open-air Temperature, on 27th

practically debarred from all higher educa. Lowest open-air Temperature on 18th ... 81.

were for the pri

*privileg d' classes.

ambitions seldom led them

very conscious of

so that they could not be very

COOK ATCE

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE

From June 29th to July 4th, 1923. HOH WATE..

impediment. If they wanted to see the world, to make a pugrimage to the holy places of their faith, or even to follow their nra into battle, they could up and do it

Sonia,

the one of our Quaker

out pusts in the

weathor woman, who. can' youth went on neitige read nor write, in frer foot with another woman all the way to Kier, and from thence proceeded to Jeru- salem. It is stupid to stay in one, little village all your life,

sho ani, we wanted to see the world and wa wanted to king the

Batur 80 Blossed Lord." he did not

Sarine of

of our

tch of Jerusalem as a place. It was gi

People wente, 10 verits for good

wanter and sold it at high prices in the Mon

streeta But it was a marvellous pilgrimage

Hoog Stanslard

*Time

2 m

all the same. When I thought how we Tacs 3 m 180 sbould make suoh a journey,

of the trunks

Height

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