Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-26
AMERICANS In ARCHANGEL
Soldiers Write OF People, Customs
And Climate.
their SPLENDID HUMOR NEVER FAILS

Il Sun u dHSs iUtI9e LOtouioiy aHo ShoV
Flakes Always Falling-Tribute II
Russian Girls Who Preserve Theil
Good Looks in Spite Of Hardships.
New York Sun.
American soldiers, recently returned
from service in Northern Russia, hav,
drought back with them interesting
Impressions of people and things ir
tArchangel and the surrounding coun.
lItry. An idea of what the American
soldiers thought of Archangel, its peo-
Iple, customs, and things In genera
lis found In The American Sentinel, the
newspaper published at Archangel BY
the American Red Cross.
i Copies of The Sentinel which have
reached Red Cross headquarters show
that the arctic weather was not severe
enough to freeze. the humor out Of the
soldiers or clog their rhyming appara-
tus. The, Following description Of Arch
angel, pronounced by the editor of The
Sentinel as 'the best pen picture OF
the place written by an American SOL
dier.r proves that one Of Uncle sam's
boysSdidn't permit the job to get on his
nerves:
u A Description Of the Weather.
We are so far north that the dog
gone sun works only when 1t feels In
clined to do so. and In that way 1t Is
like everything else In Russia. The
moon isn't SO particular, and comes up
usually backwards, at any time Of day
Or night, In any part Of the sky, II
having no set schedule, and often II
will get lost and still be on the job
at noon. Yes, we are 30 far north that
so degrees below will. soon be tropical
weather for us, and they will have to
build fires around both cows be-
fore they can milk them, Probably
about next month some one will come
around and say that we will be pulling
out, of here in day or so, but then
the days viii be six months long.
Now up here in this tough town
there are 269SS1 Inhabitants, of which
81, 1929 are human beings and 20S,502
are dogs. Dogs are Of every descrip-
tion, from the poodle to the st. Ber-
nhrd and from the wolfhound to the
half breed dachhpund,
The wind whistles across the Dvina
like the twentieth Century Limited
assing p. lunk. and snowflakes are as
Numerous as retreatine Germans were
IL France -
TWe read IN The Stars and Stripes
that the hovs in Italy had some tongue
ti,istars and hroin n'worrias ,but Listen
II thss Sanfimes and ao,1s and francs
a. he he I'd 10 count but did Won ever
hEar of q r1,ble or a kopec? A kopec
nj worth a tenth of a cent and there
are hundred of them in ruble. AS
y6u wiz sees that makes a ruble worth
a dimet and, to make matters worse, all
the money is paper, coins having gone
oiit of circulation since the beginning
of the mix-up. A kopec is the size Of a
postage Stamp ruble looks like a
ciaar store certificate, q .25-ruble note
resernbIes a porous plaster, and 100
r,iGse notA the Declaration of Inde-
~ -. s.;s-..a.s,--
every time YOU get on a street car
ftramwayj Won have to count out sixty
kopecs for your fare, and most OF us
would rather walk than be jammed In
the two by four, husses and fish for the
money!, Before boarding a car each
passenger usually hunts up q couple
of Ave Gallon milk cans. market
ha slot Or two and a bag of smoked
herring so that thew will get their ko-
necxs' worth out of the ride, besides
mailing the atmosphere nice and pleas
ant for the rest of the passengers.
When a soldier in search of a meal
enters a restaurant he says to the
waitress, "Barishnia, zakazeetie bi-f
sick, pazalouista,a which means, AN
order OF beefsteak, iady, please; ,os LoS
see, sen, you s a,ms Ss,,rI% T ond mill a voune
lady is married she is always address
ed in that manner She will answer
the hungry customer with, yah ochen
sojalayu shtoo mas MET yestnik pre-
pasov slechas," "a simple nome cure
for lockjaw) meaning i am sorry' Out
we are right out OF 1000 tooay
When Russian meets announcer iiaIl
he knows on the street DOtn htL tneil
stop to talk they always shake hands
even If they haven't seen eacn other
for fully twenty minutes. Tnen tney
simply must snake nands again When
they leave. When man meets lazy
friend he usually kisses her hand and
shows how far he can bend over with
out breaking his suspenders.
vas veelet, kak Vui pozaVayeue
which in the United states means
How do you do?" To which she Will
reply, "Blagadaru vas, yah ochen khor-
oshaw." of, "Very we'll, thank YOU" II
Is the knockout. A fellow has to shake
hands so much that some of us are
getting the habit around the company
D'>e -. ~ ..ountod .ha follow.
RUSSIAN sh"
ing tribute from one or the AMERICAN
boys.
uo,sor utt,e s,ster az ace Won
80 no hy
pass ,ie o.o A., e+tino oarmants
WIN sout ,'noaioi,, faet
70 nno iot yt" of ft tbinss aren't trne Of Won,
The which your looks BELLE,
II some very minor changes
Wouidnt make you iiieh'S "e"''
Lnow q lot of damsels with twice the
chance you've had,
Who are twice as prone to grumble as
you ever seem to be.
Who are twice as quick to anger, and
As their husky Russian sister ever yet
appeared to me.
r. Won could change your clothes for
imagine they would envy you the