The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-01
RUSSELL Tells HOW habit
MAKES EVEN DEMOCRATS
ABOUT RUSSIA

thing. Good radiance. They've
gone and that's the best thing ever
said about them"
"But think of the cars poor
children," she walled. Surely
you haven't any animosity against
the children. Think how they
have been reared! Always accus-
toned to ease and comfort and
now what will become of them?"
Opportunity
WELL" said Jim Duncan, 81
should thing they would now be
blessed with an opportunity to
earn an honest living. Miss Olga
from all ! can learn, might make
a first class typewriter, and as for
the boy 1t is far from too late for
him to learn the carpenterine
trade"
1t was plain she was inexpress-
IDLY shocked. She called herself
a democrat and yet she could not
possibly get over the prejudice
with which she was born. Royal
blood was still royal blood even
when it's possessors had lost their
royal job.
The hold this absurdity has
upon the human mind is one OF
the most amazing facts in Life.
Always Cropping Out
A hundred years of free insti.
buttons haven't extracted 1t from
some Americans. From some!
Why, 1t actually survives enough
to create one of the serious diff.
culties of the situation, because
1t is continually cropping out IN
American writing about Russia.
We had some manifestations Of
1t in Russia itself, some that were
odd and some that were just com.
zeal.
When Mr.. N. Romanoff got out
of the Winter Palace and quit thu
whole palace business, which hi
did with considerable suddenness
you may remember, most of the
imperial servants were left behind
Shocked Servants
We found them there, still
wearing the palace uniform Of
imperial blue with imposing silver
buttons. They seemed to me q
melancholy lot, but doubtless
more sinned against than SHINING
Who could learn light-heartedness
In madhouse?
| cannot pretend that we made
much of hit with them; in fact
fear that to the last they regarded
us with solemn disfavor.
They had been used always tc
waiting upon grand dukes and the
barons and that sort of creature
that waited upon czars, and to
see this herd of common slobs
tramping thru those sacred halls
was little too much.
They were mostly old timers
and thoroly drilled to the old
regime and not keen for any in
|novations-least of all for Amer
lean persons in sack suits.
There were two of us that got
in bad the first turn of the box
with some of these worthy but
stilted guardians of vanished dig
nifty and we never got right again
SO long as We were there. 1t was
like this:
Soldiers Sing
We arrived about three In the
afternoon and the baggage came
soon afterward and was piled un-
tremendously on the first sacred
imperial floor.
A squad of the idle soldiers out
side was impressed to carry 1t up
to our rooms.
AS they came down stairs after
performing this function they be-
gan to sing. l thought the SER
wants would burst into tears.
They looked at one another and
shook their dear old heads in de-
spair. Common soldiers singing in
the temple of the Romanofss!
This was indeed beyond endur-
ance.
One of them could not contain
himself but broke loose with q
vehement protest. He looked SO
cut up that we were moved to ask
the interpreter what allied the old
boy. 1t seemed that what he was
saying was this:
Put to Use Now
There it is! There 1t is! Sing
ing in the cars palace! And that
is what they call liberty! I say
again as l have said before, this
liberty will be the ruin of Russia!"
But the soldiers, they just
laughed and sang the next stanza
and two of US laughed with them,
and that settled us in the minds
of the servitors. We we're evil