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

selves that cold feet would be the least
of Russian Christmas sorrows.
And as Russia has no organized as
ISOLATION of nurses to protest against
amateur. knd-hearted nursing, hun
dreds of Russian girls. students, court
personages and workwomen were wei
coined into the six weeks course OF
training that entities them 70 become
Sisters" and wear the grey gingham
dress and white cap of the authorized
nurse.
A nursing story which has set Petro,,
grad laughing is told Of the Grand
Duchess Olga. sister OF the Car and
wife Of the Prince Of Oldenburg. With
soldiers and with nurses rank has no
place in simple service, and in the hos
pital at Rawa. like any other sister,
she was busy with bandsgcs and
making beds and serving soup and
tea. But she did want TO go 10 Lem
berg, and one day she was telling her
troubles to a newly arrived lieutenant
81 do so want TO go 20 the 'front.' she
said. "but my husband and my brother
won't let me-" The lieutenant was
SYMPATHETIC. "Well, Of course he
comforted, perhaps you ought to
listen to your husband; but, | say,
don't take any notice of your brother"
And then a fellow officer identified the
archduchess for him.
The Empress herself and her daugh-
ters. Archduchess Olga and Archduch-
ess Tatiana, in their life, show how
simply and firmly the women Of Russia
have cone about il to help. They have
taken the same grinding six weeks OF
etudv as the other women who have
wanted to serve, and now, in the same
plain gray bingham and white head
drese visit. sometimes MS early as D
o'clock in the morning, the hospitals in
The shadow of the summer palace NJ
Tsarskoye Selo. ann,
As for the Russian soldiers, They
are like children" a Russian nurse In
Moscow told me, as she led me through
the hospital that has been made out OF
the Governors house. And when we
came on a whole roomful of men hug
cling themselves with delight, and final
~ discovered that the whole joke was
over a man in the corner bed who hap
pencd not to belong TO the Greek
Church, and whom they were calling
"Tartar. Tartar" they did seem so.
Certainly, they had none OF the city
sophistication that one noticed In tne
German and Austrian wards OF the big
military hospitals. -,
In their muslin hospital clothes, with
their feet bandaged In linen after the
fashion a moujik adopts in place OF
socks, often at the approach OF visitor
they would rise and, even with ban.
daged knees and broken arms, sing and
dance the Russian folkdances they had
learned along the Vol ga.
1t Is a curious sight to see groups
of these bearded men in the streets as
soon as they are able to be about. Al
WAYS accompanied by sister, one sees
these little parties making their way
about the cities, visiting museums and
cathedrals; then the clucking OF the
little figure in gray gingham as she
marshals her charges and takes them
on a tram back to the hospital. such
a little general wasted said mill
tary man, as he watched serious
Young student line up her party on the
corner of the Nevski Prospect.
As for relief work that is not nurs-
ing. Russia has a problem no other
country has. IN the cities ii is not 80
difficult 10 help the soldiers families.
The law which requires employers 10
take on the wives of men absent on
dutv has made places for hundreds OF
women whose doorkeeper husbands
have gone 10 the war. II is the coun-
try of across the great plain, ten hours
and sometimes couple OF days, from
the nearest railway stStlon, where the