New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-05
CHOLERA.
Eintritt Streng VerbOtcn.

to take nothing from this building"
Lingering around it also is discouraged
and. lest any one in sea oh Of another
department OF the hos ital service
should 90 laundering into the cholera
section. there is a big sign which says
that the entrance TO the Feld!aZarette
is around the corner" As you stand
beneath the windows of the cholera hos
pitaI you hear mighty sound OF scrub
bing and catch pungent whiHs of dis
infectant,. No person is seen to leave
the building. 1t is shut off from the
world.
At LODI, thrty-six miles away, the
hunger typhus" is raging, but as It
broke out IN July it cannot be charged
20 the war, I ough the war has in
creased its .avagcs. In six months 1t
carried OF more than 1000 children.
Make Villages Clean Up.
Aoralled by tie dirt and disease con-
Ting her in her advance toward
Warsaw, Germany is making the popu-
laIou of scores Of Russian villages
clean up. The people hated the ocess
al first, but" said a German officer in
charge Of the work, they are beginning
to like De; they truly are. and they
u q
will in fact, one Of the results OF
this war is that Germany has given
parts of Europe tn most thorough
cleaning they ever mad. and perhaps
before the end comes viii have estab-
lished usages that will last longer than
the treaty - neace itself.
But staggering tasks in merely ele-
mcntary sanitation remain to be per-
formed. More than the devastation, it
is the dirt in Polish Russia that maketh
the heart sick. Dirt everywhere"
cried a pink and fastidious Prussian-
dirt on the walls. dirt on the floors,
dirt on the ceilings, dirt on the stairs,
dirt IN the courts, and dirt in some
places where you would think it could
not stick. In a thousand years there
people have not learned a new thing
ABOUT sanitation"
One day in one Of these towns gives
YOU ample cause 10 understand why
the Baedecker advises the traveller 90
take his own supply of insect powder
along with him into Russia. SO much
for the sleeping rooms. As for the
kitchens, if / haven't eaten my peek Of
dirt since landing here IL has not been
for lack of being hungry.
OnlN NHurEneS hllIdClNt.
The aspect Of this town is drear and
squalid. the houses built in long, com
pact rows two stories high and the
shops like caves, their only light COM
ing through the doorway, which is
left open all day. Only the churches
are splendid. Even the least preten-
tious houses are likely to have walls
two and a half feet thick, and are
painted white, occasionally varied by
pink and SKY blue.
All day long in the doorways stand
bearded and cassocked men-Jews
mostly and always in a curious. peer
ing attitude, as if instructive furtlve-
ness were in conflict with their curl
osity to see the passing show. A
painter who had sketched in these parts
said that attitude was characteristic
and not the result of the anxietles of
war time. Always peerlng," he sci
always little crouched, as if ready
70 glide away from a threat OF peril"
! suppose II is the mark their troubled
history has laid upon them in this
weary land.
The folk are civil and cheerful
though, and in their traificking with the
soldiers they are brisk and business
like, and display politeness that is
a little more than obsequlousness and
not quite slavishness. The children
are lively and have sense of fun.
They boldly mimic the boot of the
motor horns as some generals car goes
footing by. and they run in and out
among the soldiers. The women are
mostly squat, swarthy and unkempt In
some of the villages | have seen them
scultIng through the snow and slush
barelegged to the knees, their feet pro-
tected by low, dumping shoes or a kind
of sabot-very unlOvely figures.
Many of Men Handsome.
But the men are often very hand
some, noble IN bearing when they
Strengthen up, with beautiful liquid
eyes and eager, vital, mobile faces
combining an expression OF good
nature with obvious cunning. Bland,
perhaps, Is ;ne word
The community is mostly engaged
these days in selling cakes. cigarettes.
postcards and hot tea TO the sol
diers. The tea comes from samovars
set on trestles in front of the shops
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