The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-06
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1882

Formerly strangers were welcome, especial
ly il they were inventors, or added to the
gain Of The country in the way OF enter
prise and new ideas Now if foreigner
enters Russia with patent OF any kind he
is not encouraged to manufacture or sell,
and the government, if the invocation is
worth anything, will buy it and let the
foreigner go about some other business. The
result is the enterprise and push that was
constantly infused into Russian life by the
Germans and other foreigners who settled
in the country, has subsidized. The native
Russian takes things easy, aud is not ener-
getic. 1t must be remembered that they
live entirely under different conditions from
what we do. and therefore a large al
lowance can be made for their slowness to
take hold Of enterprises and carry them to
successful completion. A Russian is meth
cd cal and sure in what he does, and is not
trammeled by having too little time to do
anything. | can truly attest to Muscovite
politeness. AT first IL is ali formal and
seems very rigid, aud decidedly cold; but
when you come to know them well, and
they accept you, they are friendly and ge-
NAL, and boon companions. They have not
the extreme courtesy Of the Frenchnan,
however, but more than enough to make a
man feel entirely at his ease.
Are the Russian women beautiful
NO. not as nation. They are tall, many
Of them, and devoid Of beauty. Some are
handsome and queenly in bearing The
most beautiful women under the rule of the
rsar are the Polish. They are healthy,
have fine forms add regular fea'ure or
course there are some exceptions both as to
the Russian and Polish women, but | am
speaking OF them as nation. There are
many highly educated Russian women,
some Of whom 60 - swell the
ranks of the nihilists, Thoy cannot, how
ever, DO said TO represent the typical Rus
ian woman."
What do the people have to eat in cary
st. PetersburgW
well, st. Petersburg is not dreary,
but a very cheerful city TO live in, and the
market affords many deicacies that people
in a warmer climate would imagine could
not be mad SO far north. Nearly all the
garden vegetab es that they have are raised
around ST. Petersburg Farmers have
their truck patches and the market IN the
city is beautifully supplied. Fruits Of
course have to be imported from Italy,
Turkey and southern countries. AT this
season of the year in ST Petersburg the
grapes are most luscious. They are brought
by fast freight trains from the south and
TO me always had a del. -htfui flavor. The
favorite dish # peasant aud noble is cab
bage soup. The Russians take pride in
| their Cabbage soup and make the finest In
the world. In the house OF noble where l
dined occasionally the special dish was cab
bago soup. They have way of making it
hat gives it an excellent flavor and alto
gether it is very palatable. The black
bread so famed in that country is TIE chief
article OF food with the people. 1t is healthy
and nutritious. The tallow-candle eating
Russians | did not see. / presume the
story is largely one of pure fiction. Strange
ro say some of the finest cabbage soups and
other special Muscovite dishes are not
cooked by Russians, but Freuchmeu. Ths
mobiles employ French cooks and it is not
very long before they know how to prepare
Russian dishes letter than the natives.