The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-31

done. 1t Is as II He, the Father, looks
and looks from heaven at the earth
and sees how often we weep, how often
we sob and says: My people. my dear
people. how sorry I am for you.'"
From that time her God became
still closer and more comprehensive
to me-"
It was a turbulent and violent
household for a young and sensitive
genius to grow UP In. His grandfather
was u prosperous dyer; his two son
and their families lived with him and
quarrelled because the property could
not he Immediately divided among
them. Their jests and pranks were OF
the widest order. To neat white hot
the thimblc Of the old. half blind work.
man Gregory SO that when he ran
his finger into 1t he would be burned
was their idea OF merriment. Women
existed for them largely az creatures
whom they could beat when they we're
III tempered. All this fitted peaceably
into grandmother's philosophy.
Eyes, he beats her, but not very
hard--the dewitt" she said, speaking
of her son Michael and his wife.
Grandmother does not object so long
rs he does 1t al night. He is i'll
n~atured-and shc--shc Is like "A jelly.
But he does not beat her as much
as he used to- she continued In Ia
cheerful tone. He Just gives her "a
blow on the mouth or boxes her ears.
or drags her about BY the hair for a
minute or two: but at n time he
used TO torture her for hours to-
gethcr. Grandfather beat me one
Easter day from dinner time till bed
time. He kept on: he just stopped
to get his breath sometimes. and then
started again. And he used a strap.
too
"'Why did he do it?'
~ forget now. Another time he
knocked me about till I was nearly
dead and then kept me without food
for five hours. was hardly alive
when he finished with me-"
The strange part Of this to the little
Maxim was that grandmother was
much bigger and stronger than grand
father. When he inquired why she did
no. defend herself. she answered.:
He IL not stronger than me-. but
older. Besides. he Is my husband, he
has to answer to God for me: but my
uu's W oe"s pa',en,s. ,nus ma"
~. 'N.e' -,
INK "''n N"'s.' "'
| worked disaster there.
me characte. {, 'ne srdnuia'ner u
almost as wildly Grawn. only II Is not
30 taking a picture. The two BROTH
ers, Michael and Jaakov, stand out,
separate' HEihS oi's ot Por'ra''"re
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whose uea.h inc doom Closes. 49,.
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VI oe~seF'p''oh' NHh'er IL as poe.i'a"!
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VI ~ 'a''e' wv "'o'""
~ was peasant 20 listen 10 'nese kin.
80, ,,.a. ~, ~. ,Tn'
c,oud a, s,nam rh,c, ro.s from Tho ,ats
and settled Ike a dark blue rlmc on the
sian;!ns boards Of he roofs. through the
uneven chinks OF which the shy could be
seen me strands OF blue RIBBON Tn. w.ni
'"r ~ w ~" 80 "
usy. ,n-.n .h".n son,I as ,hsy n..ssJ
Nm N, street; a blue s,nok. ro,. from IN.
chimneys OF the house: faint shadows
siided over the snow-s'so 'eiiing a story.
! Gorky since his III fated visit to this
country. when one of his deares, illu-
| s!,ns was mercilessly shattered, has
! been living. a victim 10 a slow and vast
ing disease. in Capri. Al the outbreak
Of the war he enlisted in the Russian
army. Whether. then. this marvellous
tale of a life will ever be taken up and