The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-01

A lady writing from Vladivostock,
Russia, gives this account VI the coun-
try:
Vladivostock is a queer, interesting
town TO one not acquainted with Rus
sian ways and customs. 1t Is built
partially around a bay of the same
name and is surrounded by hills and
mountains. Being i'll the same latitud
as Portland, Maine, and having an at
mosphere more like that of our own
loved land, it would make a. pleasant
summer resort for those living in
| Southern Japan and China. A new
hotel is now in course of erection where
furnished rooms a be obtained, while
the Russian club is putting up a large
building ear by where meals will be
furnished, SO that accommodations for
| visitors will be better in future. There
are IA number of stores where goods of
all descriptions can be had at reasonable
rates. Several very fine store build
ings also a number of dwelling houses
are being erected, while Improvements
are making i'll all directions. The
town boasts of a young ladies' seminary
and "a park, where on Sunday and We'd
nesday afternoons of each week, also
ON the holidays, which are numerous.
music is discoursed by the military
band for the entertainment OF the pub.
lie.
There are two Greek churches, the
Greek church being the established
CHURCH of Russia, and n German
Lutheran church. The population OF
1 thantAxxYnE 10 aulcr.t Ton eiaruanI nf
these about four thousand are Chinese,
there are some Germans, a few English
and no Americans, though when we in
quireG if there We're any American
here We were told there was one. but on
investigating his case We found he was
a Finn who had spent a year or two in
in America, therefore was an Ameri-
an. OF women there are about nine
hundred, SO | suppose in this case the
men have the control of affairs pretty
much in their own hands. In this
town and country around there are a
large number of Coreans.
The houses are built principally
of logs and are one story high,
though in the new ones now being
erected the material used is chic
fly stone Or brick, said to be cheaper at
present than wood, and many of them
are two or even three-story buildings.
In building every little Granny or ere
vice is filled with seaweed to keep out
the winters cold, which is very severe.
The bay freezes over in winter and for
several months sh1ps cannot come to
the port.
In dress, especially among the lower
classes, red seems to be the favorite
color. Men wear red shirts, made with
a yoke, a full body belted i'll at the
waist and reaching halfway down to
the knees. Women often wear dresses
in which the prevailing color Is turkey
red, made with a straight, full skirt
sewed to a plain waist, after the fashion
OF our grandmother, or else worn with
a short loose sacque fastened about the
waist with the strings of a long apron.
A shawl, or red kerehIef with large
figures in it, is pinned over the head,
another around the shoulders. The feet
are bare or eneased in boots, such as
are worn by laborers in America. The
better classes dress differently and III
styles similar to u own.
Occasionally the real Russian CO.'S
tune is seen. Ladies of all classes ap-
pear ON the streets and other public
places smoking cigarettes. 1t is entire
ly polite for Russians to pass cigarettes
and smoke them in a parlor. The peo-
pie seem very hospitable and kind and
polite and treat ladies with marked re-
spect and attention. Shaking hands is
practiced among them to a greater go
tent even than among the English. A
person going out for an hour or two
fIequently shakes hands with those he
leaves before going and again On his