Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-27
SOME QUEER STORIES TOLD BY FRENCH
JOURNALIST OF PEOPLE or new RUSSIA
elementary Mentality of the Masses Of Great Republic Are
Demonstrated by Amusing ExampIeS-Russan Workers
Idea of Liberty Brought Out in Anecdotes

Two soldiers had happened to speak
term. your cxCellency." as vas the
custom before the revolution Tie
other soldier afterwGrd rebuked his
companion for such lapse from new
principles,
You said 'exccl!ency
w II, 0. course | said '"XcnIicnc.'"
But don't you know that nov YOU
mustn't say excellence"
And why ustnt we say excel.
lency' and more
"What? Why? Because We have
made In" revolution. and now we arc
all free"
The first soldier was silent for d
minute, and then remarked:
But since We are all free We are
free to say 'exCellency' if We like to"
The other soldier in turn. reflect "a
for minute and then declared:
That's true. after all The moment
we arc free We can do what we like
It's that, YOU see, that's so difficult TO
understand. But as that's really SO, |
I'm going to say 'exceIlency myself.
Then he added:
But. all the same, it won't be the
same thing as before
A Street Sell
Ludovic Nadeau has found time to
send TO the Temps some anecdotes
about events in Petrograd after the
great revolution:
In the early days Of the revolution a
Strengthening street-eclier mIde his
appearance on the Nevsky Prospect.
AS he wore a scarlet cap. crowd
soon gathered. lie was offering pamph-
lets at so kOpeCks apiece, and could
hardly hand them cut quickly enough.
The natural inference would be that
the work treated of the revolution,
but. as a matter of fact, it was His
tory Of Buddhism" bought, doubtless.
for nominal sum as a publishers
remainder. One soldier as he carried
away his bargain. was heard to say:
Il can't read. but lots of comrades
in the barracks can"
Before the revolution people bathed
naked on the Neva, but outside the
town. Now they are bathing entirely
stripped, within the town, and walk
about on the bridges and quays be-
tween the French and British en-
bassies. The men of 1898 were chris
tened sans culotte without trousers.
the men of 1917 are sans calecon"
without drawers).
The Real Workers
The Petrograd soldiers, anxious to
instruct themselves and occupy the
hn hor ry;,
them, are great visitors to the mu
seums. Their anxiety to investigate
everything leads them to pass their
hands over the pictures and caress the
statuary (often marking it with their
nails). Notices have been put up beg
ging comrades to touch nothing.
The founder and curator OF Eth
nographic" museum reCOuntS that his
staff (caretakers, cleaners, etc. has
petitioned the government for the sup
preston of his office. on the ground
that curator is useless in a museum.
that he does nothing, costs money and
is of no service, as they who carry the
keys, WELD the feather brooms, and
clean the floors are the real curators
How to Be Civil Engineer.
In mandatory, the workmen in a
body waited on the civil engineers to
tell them that the old order having
passed away. there must be no more
slavery. Every one must work in
turn. So you will kindly some of you
go down into the mines, and others
fire the engines"
And who will do our work." asked
the engineers.
Some of us will take turns in your
Offices"
But what will you do there"
THE same as you-sit around sharp
pen pencils and smoke cigarettes
Nobody Cared
On Sunday, July s. NJ. Naudeau
saw crowd moving along the Nevsky
Prospect, carrying banners, half blue, |
half yellow. That's all right" said a
citizen to him. "Revolu- |
red seems to be going out of
date" When the column had approach |
ed, it proved to be composed almost |
entirely of soldiers, enough to form !
two or three regiments. Their banners |
bore the inscription Long Live the |
which seemed to show |