New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-07

phrase goes, will boast to you, "By and
by there Will be no more Of them
and there are always more Of us"
Then. too. the peasant has made a
fetch of the weather. No wondar, for
Russian winters are bitterly cold II
is no unexpected misfortune for the
market men to freeze to death as they
drive in the morning into cities as far
south as Kiev.
A Russian officer back from Poland
who knew something of other armies
of the world, said, alluding to his men:
1--WE marched them two days on one
meal, and they said. Thank you actu-
ally. when we finally had mess. They
never snarl. They Just bear things"
That they have TO bear things is due to
the not altogether admirable organiza-
ton Of everything Russian. That they
do bear all manner OF horrors without
ANYTHING but silence is the everyday
story Of the Russian army. They don't
expect much, and when they get moth
ing why, "NitchewohI cit doesn't
natter.
"Nitchewohl." by the way. may be
called the national word of the empire.
ANY Russian will tell foreigner that
he need only speak that one word and
betake himself comfortably TO any
part of the country.
But the word and the attitude are
fading during the war. It may not
have mattered last year, but II was
very exasperating to the carefree Rus
sian suddenly TO discover how many
things that he never troubled about
for himself were tended to with excel
lent profit by the hundreds OF thou
sands of Germans who made their
fortunes in Moscow and Petrograd
Owe must learn this" eve must learn
that" is what one hears every day
"Oh, yes" said the dvorniks wife VINO
took her husbands place while he went
to the war, "the Germans are cleVerer
than we, but we have the bread She
chuckled as she repeated, We nave
the bread, and after the war we snail
see if they're smart enough TO eat US
up in the old way" Her way or put
ting il is one way, but the sentiment
is the same everywhere.
The feeling among the Russian peo-
nile against Germany is not sheer
hatred. but IL is the resentment OF
worm that turns and suddenly remem-
hers how many times the German
bdd called him a dirty Russian" and
cheerfullv taken his money at home
anu y.
Petrograd-one pays five kopecks
into the family Red Cross bank II one
saws st. Petersburg these days-takes
the war far more like Paris than Ike
Iondon. It Is the Red Cross signs that
make the difference. For. besides the
big military hospitals and the remod-
elied clubrooms and gymnasiums, there
ia hardly a block in Moscow. Klev or
Petrograd without its lazerette, from
which hangs the great white square
and its crimson cross OF mercy. =,
With true Russian hospitality ana
great heartedness, from the very open
INC Of the war, everybody wanted TO
do something. Families stayed in the
da.cba Summer house, along the FIN
nisb railway and turned over the town
anartment TO the Red Cross. Or quick
~ one room, two rooms, three rooms
wore turned over hastily into quiet,
hare Iazarettes for convalescing wound
ed soldiers. ,.:,,
In October all Petrograd was divided
into 900 districts and house-to-house
Collections were made OF mittens, mui-
fers and fannels of all kinds. The
Russian knows his winter and respects
Il, "The ice is on our side" the mouJlk
Will tell YOU, quite as though he were
naming n seventh ally, and the women
of Russia lost no time, even while the
autumn was still here, to assure them-