Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-06-25
Low GRADE SIBERIANS.
Ignorant, Laz' and Dirty, Even
These Who Assume TO
lose as Arigtccrats.
POLICE IGNORE CLOCKS
Sccial Station IS Determined b. IL.
Style Of Shoes and Head
gear.

Fate gave us our relatives: tlau-
heaven we can choose our friends +, ,..
way the Russians regard their Sibef-,.
haif-brother. Any one familiar with t.-
over-dressed, much-uniformed society ae
the large Russian cities hardly woaIe-.
IT the air Of patrcnizing tolerance e..
Russian accords his relatives across -l-
Caucuse>. says a Traveller in the Ne.
York Daily News who has recently .-
turned from a trip through Siberia.
The upper class are much like We
fed. tame animals, lacking all the >ls.
agery and picturesGueness OF the peasant
and therefore very unsatisfactory to TIL.
curiosity seeker.
The alien finds them interesting-aai
annoying because of their SyStem,p,>
system Of doing business. They have a5.
solntely no idea of time. ANY one rXcep.
Il Siberian paying a visit 10 a Russian
bank is driven to desperation 10y the TN
winding of the thousand yards of 'rpa
tape" thar bind the drawing or depo>itn-
OF money.
The process takes from one to tw4
hours and the foreign patron is rendered
frantic by the uniformed clerks who les
urely sip afternoon tea and daiutily puf
odorouS Russian cigarettes while the ey-
citahle outsider stamps about, mentally
curSing system that knows no time.
On entering shop man must remove
his hat; an office meets with the courtesy
of dOting OyercOat. hat and OyeIshoa~.
When calling upon the governor, even
for business, one must wear approved
afternoon dress. Fine feathers make tiHa
birds. in Siberia. as elsewhere.
Amy one acquainted with the customs
of this country knows exactly to what
ola r iYt,r I,,1y, Lee.
his foot and head wear. Only an ari>to-
crat is permitted to don a hat and Kill
boots; middle class woman wears
scarf or face mantilla and calfskin shoes
the peasants. handkerchiefs on their
heads and coarse. heavy boots.
The homes of the wealthy and middle
classes are pretty and attractive in the
front. but filthy in the rear. OF house
keeping they know nothing. and are
forced to hire a force of industrious CHI
neSe peasants to do the work they vii.
not do for themselves. Their habits are
irregular end dis0rderly in the extreme.
From s to 10 is the time to rise ana
partake of tea and bread; - o'clock
sees the real breakfast served. Ans
time from { to midnight is the propor
hour for a heavy repaSt of soup, meats.
vegetables, wine and ''vodkh," the ma
tional beverage. distilled from wheat. A
meal always ends with glasses of tea,
blewed in the samovar. instead of the
black coffee of more conventional coun-
tries.
The hour for social call is from 10 to
! in the morning. Friends meeting in
the street shake hands continually I'M
til parting. no matter how many times
Il day they may see each other. Men
always bow to the women first, and on
the more important holidays-Easter,
Christmas and New Year-they are per-
mtted to exchange kisses.
OF sanitary laws they have never
heard: a bath is an unnecessary trouble
One might gain unlimited wealth by ex-
hbiting in Siberia the curiosity knowu
as a bathtub. He would have con
slant flow of curious, wondering spec
tatorS.
In the peasants, or "mujiks," the tray-
eler finds more condensed oddly than his
widest dreams ever pictured. They are
the most ignorant, the dirtiest and the
LATEST people on earth.