Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-20
[From the Red Cross BuIletin.1

[From the Red Cross Bulletin.1
MEXICAN soldiers who have
u just returned from six months
- service in Northern Russia
have brought back enough inter
esting impressions from Archangel
and the surrounding country to re-
gale their friends with for many a
long day. An idea of what our
fighting men, mostly from Michigan
and Wisconsin, thought of Arch
angel, its girls, its customs and
things in general at the top of the
world is found in The American
Sentinel, the wSpaper published
up there" by the American Red
Cross for their entertainment.
Copies of The Sentinel show that
the Arctic weather was not severe
enough to freeze the humor out of
the soldiers or clog their rhyming
apparatus. The following descrip-
ton of Archangel, pronounced by
the editor of The Sentinel as the
best pen picture of the place writ
ten by an American soldier" proves
not permit the job to get on his
nerves:
Lost Moon Comes Back
I'VE are so far north that the dog
gone sun works only when it feels
inclined to do so, and in that way,
it is like everything else in Russia.
The moon isn't so particular, and
comes up, usually backwards, in any
part of the sky, it having no set
schedule, and often it will get lost
and still be on the job at noon. Yes,
we are so far north that 80 degrees
below will soon be tropical weather
for us, and they will have to build
fires around both cows before they
can milk them. Probably about next
month someone will come around
and say that we will be pulling
out of here in a day or so, but then
the days will be six months long.
Now, up here in this tough town
there are 269,S31 inhabitants, oil
which 61,329 are human beings and
20S,502 are dogs. Dogs of every de-
scription, from the poodle to the st,
Bernard, and from the wolfhound
to the half-breed daschund.
THE wind whistles across the
Dvina like the Twentieth Century
Limited passing Podunk, and snow
flakes are as numerous as retreatinS
Germans were in France.
1--WE read in The Stars and Stripes
that the boys in Italy had some
tongue-twisters and brain-worriers,
but listen to this. Confines and
sous and francs may be hard to
count, but did you ever hear of a
rouble or a kopec? A kopec is
worth a tenth of a cent and there
are a hundred of them in a rouble.
AS you will see, that makes a rouble
worth a dime, and to make matters
worse all the money is paper, coins
having gone out of circulation since
the beginning of the miX-up. A
kopec is the size of a postage stamp,
a rouble looks like a United Cigar
Store Certificate, a 25-rouble note
resembles a porous plaster, and a
lOO-rouble note, the Declaration OF
Independence.
Dramways Are Jamways
Every time you get on a street
car (dramway) You have to count
out 60 kopecs for your fare and
most of us would rather walk than
be Jammed in the o-by-four
busses and fish for the money. Be-
tore boarding car, each passenger
usually hunts up a couple of five
gallon milk cans, a market basket
or two, and a bag of smoked her.
ring so that they will get their ko-
PEGS worth out of the ride, besides
making the atmosphere nice and
pleasant for the rest of the pas
sengers.
When soldier in search of a
meal enters a restaurant, he says
to the waitress, 'Barishnia, zaka-
zeetie bifstek, paZalouista,' which
means, An order of beefsteak, lady
please. You see you always say
barishnia,' which really means
girl and until a young lady is
married she is always addressed in
that manner. She will answer the
hungry customer with, Yah ochen
soJalayu shtoo mas MET yestnik pre-
pasov' siechas' Ca simple home
cure for lockjaw), meaning, I am
sorry, but we are right out of food
to-day
When a Russian meets another
man he knows on the street, both
lift their hats and flirt with each
other. If they stop to talk, they
always shake hands, even If they
haven't seen each other for fully
twenty minutes. Then they SIM
ply must shake hands again when
they leave. When a man meets a
lady friend, he usually kisses har