Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-04

months-pmtting aside ~ each meal
one Of the two humps served with the
coffee IN the restaurant that there
might he bit Of sweet FOR this first
party. There was no bread.
"Souya Is not drinking her tea"
her pale little admirer went on. yet
she fnlnted this morning at the fac
tory aud the foreWoman said she WAS
hungry
Were MI hungry was the mo-
notouous reply. "It wasn't that"
Something stopped tie laughter and
talk suddenly but the hush that fell
In the dlmly 1T room was rs joyous rs
the gaiety. One Of Russia's greatest
singers stood by the piano and lifted
up her glorious voice filled with the
tears aud heartbreak that people ut
peace call thrills.
They went away early when the
music was done-these sad-cyed half
starved little guests Of the Blue Tri-
uugle-for danger turks IN the dark
of Pctrogrnd streets. robberIes and
murdcrs-sharp little hy-products OF
a nations chaos and a world ut war.
Souya fingered after the others
WEIR gone. She was standing close
by the secretary-hosiess' chair when
sire turned from saying goodnight 10
the Inst one of the other girls. The
laughter had died out Of the girls
eyes and the gaiety from her voice.
WIN you give me note "a the
factory superintendent" she asked.
"tclllng him I'm attending classes
here at nlghtf She spoke IN French,
for she knew DO English. and the sec
Rotary. no Russian.
Yes. II Il will help you The sec
Rotary was glad 20 give her such n
note but she was curious. Tell me
why"
II he knows the girls are going 10
night classes he won't put Us on the
night shift lie viii let rs work days
50 We can come. Yesterday asked
for the night shift. Today | have
changed my mind"
The secretary wondered Sonya
bad not brcn Ia any Of the classes,
Had the brigh, little party given her
an Interest IA the work OF the aszocia-
tiong Had the friendllncss Of the
American secretaries reached herr
Was Il the music that had given her
an impetus h study toward something
beyond factory?
what is IL that interests vOuT the
secretary asked her. You are not In
any II the classes now, are youf What
Is Il sou want 10 take upI'
This morning | looked out The fac
tory window" and Sonya's voice re-
minded the secretary OF the call Of a
night bird before storm. Down in
the courtyard was a crowd and three
men were killed. Killed by the po-
lice-the bosheyik police, while |
stood there and watched. They said
they were anarchists one was my
brother. Another was my sweetheart.
came here tonight 10 forget. But /
cannot forget. Always / will rcmep-
Der. | want nothing now but to car
rs on their work. and 10 70 that must
study and learn-f must learn English
sud many other things. | want to 20
the factory knows do thai. he viii
help He viii let me work days"
In the dark. the hunger. the cold
and the terror of petrograd. the Blue
Triangle Is sending out its shining In
vitntiou to the bewildered women and
young girls Of Russia. II Is offering
little oasis IN the midst of the
chnos where they may come and rest
and relax. play games, listen Il
music, study English. French. stenog
raphy, bookkeeping, or music, and as
hne tired gtfl expressed H. forget foi
the moment that they are in Petro
grad. Most of the girls who gather
at the sign of the Blue Triangle ar,
bookkeepers and stenographers, but
scattered among them are factory
girls, domestlcs. and girls who never
have worked.
''In Petrograd aud elsewhere IN
Russia" says Miss Clarissa Spencer
world secretary of tine Y. w. c. 4
who started the work In Russia, girls
formerly employed in government of
fees come to us who have strucI
against the bolsheylsts. They're on
of jobs. They're hungry. One cir
told me she couldn't take gymnasium
work. II gave her such an appetite
But they refuse 20 return to work fol
the bolsheyists."
Miss Helen ogden, one of the Y. W
G. A. secretaries who was forced I,
leave Petrograd on account of the Ger
man advance writes home that: "lt''
like living on the screen of melo
drama To be In Russia. Bnllets an,
shooting are almost as familiar stree
sounds here rs the clang of the stree
car and the honk of the automobile n
home. Here we learn to ike and worl
under frequent shooting and stree
battles and to flee only when we are
sold by the authorities that We must