Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-14
INSIDE VIEW OF
LIFE IN RUSSIA
BY PEGGY HULL
Correspondent Says
Fighters Better Company
Than GossipS of Society
BY PEGGY HULL
(Staff Correspondent Covering Russia
and Siberia,l

VLADIVOSTOK.-Here on the edge
OF the worltl-frozen in-eXisting
thrIugh endless days and nights of
human tragedy, l have found con-
dition Strikingly similar to the ord1-
nary routine of small town life at
home.
All the petty. narrow minded, un-
visioning synicisms of the untravel-
go, the unread and the unthinling
are represented in the people who
flock around some of the tea tables
In some of the homes of the foreign
colony.
''Oh, haven't you heard about it?"
asks one prominent woman.
mo, please do tell u.s."
They weren't suspected at first on
account of his important position"
begins the first woman. she was
absolutely impossible. OF course we
aren't sure there was anything wrong
but"
"She never came to tea at my
house" triumphantly announced one
woman. 81 have always found that
good looking girls who go wandering
about alone are not always Just what
we would wish them to be-"
riled up ct this rank injustice for
the girl of whom they were speaking
had come out here as war worker
and I knew there were many splen-
did girls who had gone to France
alone as war workers long before
we entered the war.
Anyway sic wasn't married" said
another woman. land that is more
Just terrible the way she is carrying
on with the army officers MRS:
Blanks grilling ended with lot OF
spicy details contributed by other tea
drinking attendants.
At a luncheon a young womans
name was mentioned. She was ab-
sent and someone asked for her. In.
s:antly one Of the girls looked ur
from her plate with that eager eX-
preston one sees in the eyes OF
hu,,ter when he's scented a fox.
"NIis?' she said conterlptuous1Y
what right has she to call herself
miss-why she has been married
four or five times"
And then a lurid and entirely un-
truthful history was related.
l have come in for my share also
and it is so amusing 1T. is worth re-
heating. NV uniform formed the ba-
SIS for a conversation at a tea party.
The sleeves are long, the neck choker
high and my boots come almost to
my knees over my riding trousers.
The short skirt bellies any attempt
to make it mannish. But one agile
brain finally produced thrill.
IN a property SllOShCu WHO H'iiS
said 81 know a woman who saw her
ir San francisco and she was sure
sac wore pink tights under that uni
acknowledgement wasn't it?"
Many people have asked me where
7 spend my time. [ prefer to NIKE
across the ice at the lower end OF
the harbor and drop in on Hi Benton
Of Mule Shoe Texas, once a good
COW puncher and now a good sailor.
FEe iuggles his English something
CIV ful, but l am quite sure he has
never used it to maliciouslyy and
sreakingly assail the reputation OF
a man or woman.
Or I cut across the hills In the
teeth of western wind and have tea
at East Barracks with the officers OF
the Canadian expeditionary forces, all
heroes of that great conflict over
seas. ,
More often follow a, narrow path
along the wharf to the U. S. S. Brook
!yn. where the men of the seas swan
Yarns with NE that would make Jack
I.ondon's hair curl I have found,
Invariably that a man whose life has
been spent on the ocean is consplcu-
cus1y free from small prejudices and
that he views life in the same broad
way that he sweeps the horizons of
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