The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-03-18
r UNDER
CANMON'S ROAR
THREATENED CITY OF WARSAW
MOST GIVEN TO PLEASURE
OF ANY PLACE IN Ell
ROPE.

Warsaw, Russia.-(By mail Feb.
15)-Poland is a wonderous land.
The nearer it is to the war the mer-
rier it feels; the more recklessness
i'm civilians; the more distraction;
the more amusement; the more insou
Giant indifference. have been
through Poland from safe Best-lito-
vsk. on the eastern fringe, to points
west OF Warsaw, where German
shells explode. The calmest part OF
the country. l find, is where you can
see the shells, and the panickest.
lnerviest part in Two hundred miles
from the fight.
At Brest-Litovsk | saw weeping
widows and pale faced crowds gesti-
culatine over war bulletins, AT Sed-
lee, d little nearer the war, people
were nervous but still not panicky.
Here in Warsaw people are as I'M
concerned with the war as they are
in New York. The war is good as
news" Some complain languidly
lthat the shell thunder gives them
headaches; but no one fears that the
shells may break their heads. West
of hero you get into y region OF
slaughter. flame and harricd villages
and people are still happier. They
are absorbed i'll family quarrels, in
The love affairs of some soldier man.
Quarrel Over Movies Amid Shells
At Jaktorow Railroad Depot, which
lis on the Vienna line, / heard two
men quarroling about q Warsaw pic
ture show hero's nationality. Shells
were falling not far Off, and you
could see flaming villages. once or
twice the disputants looked idly al
the flames. Then they resumed their
argument.
Warsaw's motto is. "Business as
usual" This means Business better
than usual Hotels are crowded
with happy refugees, landed prop
|rietors and happy ruined million
Iaires from LODI, and officers can't
find rooms. A Pole goes bankrupt
almost as comfortably as a Wall
Street man. Everywhere YOU hear
tragic-colnic tales of Pan PaskieNitch
and Pan Konkievitch's house being
burned. but you find Pan P~askievltch
:. and Pan Konkieyitch in the BRISTOL
Hotel consuming Warsaw last bot
tie of champagne. or going TO a
masked ball. Warsaw stories, especial
ly jewelers., are doing business bet
ter than usual.
Anything Nav Happen Tomorrow.
The reason is the Scriptural: let
us eat and drink; tomorrow We die.
Warsaw feels that tomorrow any
! jthing may happen. The Germans
may be defeated. and roubles in mill
lions may be poured into Warsaw TO
= repair the damage done. Or the Ger
. mans may take the city; and then,
/ what docs it matter? There may be
a siege. and as in that case the houses
will be burned. it Is best to mortgage
; the houses, and spend the money in
having a good time. Damn the eN-
pense. That is the Polish tempera-
ment.
Ii makes Warsaw, which is almost
within shell range, the p~leasantest
eayest. arrest. most adventurescme
city in harried Europe.
Here there are balls every night.
2 The big hall at the Bristol Hotel
is requistioned. Ruined Pan Pankie-
witch or Pan Konkieyitch, who has
lost everything he owns except 500
and five m~arriageable daughters,
spends the dollars and the daughters
on Il magnificent dance. At midnight
fhe guests make a trip to the hotel
! root to listen to the cannon roar. or
it is a ball masque Pretty maids turn
up disguised as b~reaalloush1s
"lhlck BertNas' Aeppe'iiis' "'i0
other toois OF murusl'
Lose h0ftuneS al .'aiiiH'ih-.
rms city fof.lts ,lodeSl means, IS
always Europe greatest saiiuilas
nell Now gahpllnS goes or WHY.
1t IS a Respectable INDOOR a~iauaeiAeht
winch ehabies ohe 10 ave y sP'ec
without NloiailhS Slflct ihall1ai i"N
amusement IN view or the SI"N4,S u
the SITUATION Also 1t Is very PEE
ant to SatlbIe away an estate III -.
Poland, whicn III any case you may
NeNCf sec again. Here IN nl4~u- i'SNS!i'-