Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-30

girls had not the snme ide@s. Some
sought 10 do good for gootlS sake, TO
care for the wounded and S help the
Red Cross save as many Rck as they
could. Others had a less admirable
motive-to keep close to the regi
Inent Of n favored individual, who
was not always husband or brother
third type was represented by the
yestals of anarchy, nihllism, or ter
rorlsm, red nuns, who sought to offer
the feyer.strlcken the soothing
draught with one hand revolutions
nry pamphlet with the other.
They hadn't Louise Michel's red
flag In their pockets, but they might
as well have hnd. Following the ex-
ample Of other Russians of both sex.
os, they declared that It's cory color
was the only OIic they liked. They
said this to any one who would listen
to officers as welt as troopers, TO
strong men as we'll as to the sick and
wounded. So this is how the army
OF Manchurin was poisoned.
Many anecdotes are current regard
Ing all his and one of them tells how
when Llnevltch had just decorated II
wounded soldier with tho Cross oi
Saint George in the hospital after a
battle the iOnical sestra came up to
the fellows cot and showed him the
absurdity OF the bauble, the useless
ness of war, the emptiness Of the
words Country" "hUnor" and "em.
peror." Think of it. And IL wasn't
an isolated case. Daily repcated.
these haggard men. for they didn't
want TO fight since in the first place
the cause Of the war was so obscure
AMI i'm the next place they were al
ways beaten.
During the Moscow Outbreak.
During the outbreak mt Moscow In
December, the sestras became the
valkyries of the riots. Heaven knows
how many others had hand in the
looting and burning that has terror
lied the provinces. And you should
have seen the Russian girl students
In the streets OF Saint Petersburg
grasping at the brides of the horses
of the Cossacks and calling them cow
ards and assassins, and daring them
to fire. a clear initiation of the Tri-
cotenses. The French Revolution ov-
err again. while the influence of Cor
ky's books is also evident.
The Russian woman's brain is I'M.
questionably of superior order But,
for that reason, it Is prompt to sub
nit to hypnotism and powerful sug.
sestion. 1t is the brain of a neurO.
path. Hence, the legion of revolu-
tionary maids, who are not always
maids. and who loudly proclaim the ali.
surdity of marriage, the need for free
unions and other outrageous doc.
trines. Hence the generals daugh-
tiers who declare themselves anti-mili.
tarists and the Cars chamberains
who own up to desire to STAY the
eZar. Hence the women who travel
about Russia with vulises in which
Finnish knives and Browning rcvolv-
ers are found instead of toilet artic-
les (whose necessity they refuse to
admiD. Hence the hysterical crea-
lures who kill for the mere sake of
killing, join secret sects, and melo-
dramatically appoint themselves to
| execute romantic sentences.
Women Aid In the Looting.
Wives of Moscow businessmen
hasten to support the revolution by
contributing their jewel and money,
thus facilitating the footing of banks,
which will sooner or later he follow
ed by the looting of their own proper.
~. What motive do these deranged
people obeyI The instinct of imita-
ton. The influence of the press is
well known, and it causes more mis-
chief than 1t cures.
Russian society. whether revolu-
tlonary or conservative, still produces
women whose ideals are wholly diff
ferent from those of the red nuns.