The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-20

And Anna had friendly
relations with the society +.
which with one hand lays fast hold
of the Court lest it fall absolutely in
to the demi-monde which it's mem
bers affect to dispise but whose tastes
are percisely similar
Anna Kareninas intimates were of
this circle in St. Petersburg society.
Practically forced into a loveless mar
rage with Aleksie Karenin, twenty
years her senior Anna had been a
faithful wife for eight years. Kare-
min held a high official position and
everything in his life was subordin-
ated to his career. He was a tire
less worker and such social hours as
he enjoyed were spent in circles best
suited to his advancement, but his
charming and adaptable wife made
friends in all quarters. While man
OF damira BILE character, Karenin had
an Utterly unlovable personality. He
was very calm, cool, absolutely just,
but love-warm, human love-was a
stranger in his household All the
affection of Anna karenin's heart was
lavished on her seven-year-old son,
Serozho, who adored his mother.
Into this setting, socunningly fash
Toned for it. stepped Trouble, in the
most attractive person of Aleksei
Vrodsky.
In the city of Moscow lived Annals
| brother, Stephan Oblonsky. Stephan
lovable and popular, had a wife, chill
dren, salaried official position and
some money, but, being always in debt
this fact and his little "affaires du
! clyff in
ried to enable him to really enjoy
! life
! While on visit to Moscow, Anna
Karenina met Vronsky.
Count Vronsky was rich, handsome
loved his regiment an dhis horses. and
was voted capital good fellow" He
had appeared in Moscow that winter
and had been attracted slightly ia
| Stepan's sister-in-law, Kitty. Kitty
was a pretty and popular debutante
daughter of Prince Scherbatsky of the
old nobility. Among many admirers
she was sure of two serious sutors
One was Vronsky, the other Levin.
konstantin Levin was also of the
old Muscovite nobility and had known
Kitty all her life. AS his mother had
died in his baby-hood, the family life
Of the Scherbatskys had appealed tC
him strongly. He was determined to
offer himself to her HIT was really
splendid match. He had a magnif
icent country estate of eighty-one hun
dred acres, plenty of money and his
sare of masculine fractions. He was
| a thinker. always immersed in the
! deepest problems concerning the world
! everything in it, on it and beyond it
He had been brought up in the Ortho
dox faith, but, since attaining man
hood, had been assailed with all kinds
| of doubts, until now he was practically
an unbeliever. He could not believe
/ he was also equally unable to disbe
lleve." After completing his univer
sIty course, he spent most of his time
on his great estate, wrestling with
his problems of agricultural and pea
SAINT labor. He came into Moscow
on occasions and dipped into it's so
cial life, but his own life was so clear
and simple that he had little patience
with the designations of his towr
p friends.
Kitty's parents had many quarrels
over her prospects. Her mother fav
ored the brilliant Vronsky; her father
said Levin was worth thousand
men" Kitty, herself, had set hel
heart on Vronsky, although fond O.
Levin. In due time, she experienced
the pleasing pain of refusing Levin
but, to her chagrin and deep humilia
ton, the proposal from Vronsky die
not materialze. The latter did no
dream that his attentions to her were
regarded seriously. Poor Kitty me
with her crushing disappointment a
a large ball, when instead of choosin,