The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-09-11
YANKEE HUMOR FINDS PLENTY
OF MATERIAL IN ARCHANGELl
"Dog gone Sun" Works Only When II
Feels Inclined; Like Everything
Else There.

IN retrneu from slA HioHtis SN' s'NN -
Northern Russia have brought back
enough interesting impressions OF peo-
ole and things in Archangel and the
surrounding country to regaie theH
friends with for many long day An
idea OF what our fighting men thought
of Archangel, its girls, its customs and
things in general at the top OF the
world is found in "The American Sen
tinei", the newspaper published BY the
American Red Cross up there for then
entertainment.
Copies Of the Sentinel which recently
reached Red Cross national headquar-
ters show that the arctic weather was
not severe enough to freeze the humor
out OF the soldiers or clog their rhym-
ing apparatus. The following descrip-
ton OF Archangel was prominence by
the editor of The Sentinel as the
best pen picture of the place written
by an American soldler.
Sun is Bolshevist, Too
"We are so far north that the dog
gone sun works only when it 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, it
having no set schedule, and often it
will get lost and still be on the job at
noon. Yes, we arc so far north that 30
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 day or so, but then the days
will be six months long.
"Now up here in this tough town
there are 269,S31 inhabitants, OF
which 1929 are human being and
20S, SOP are dogs. Dogs Of every de-
scription from the poodle to the st
Bernard and from the wolfhound to
the half-breed dachshound
'The wind whistles across the Dvina
like the Twentieth Century Limited
passing Podunk, and snowfakes are al
numerous as retreating Germans werf
in France.
"We read in The Stars and Stripes
that the boys in Italy had some tongue
twisters and brain-worriers, but lis
ten to this. Confines and sous ant
francs may be hard to count, but die
: YOU ever hear of rouble or kopec
A kopec is worth tenth of a cent ant
|, there are hundreds of them in rouble
AS you will see, that makes a roubl'
worth a dime ,and to make matters
worse all the money is paper, coin'
: having gone out of circulation since
the beginning Of the mix-up. A kope'
is the size of postage stamp, roubl'
} looks like a United Cigar Store Certi
J ficate, 25 rouble note resembles por
/ Gus plaster and 100 rouble note, th'
/, Declaration of IRdepenence.
!, Every time you get on street ca
(Dramway) you have to count out q
kopecs for your fare and most of u
would rather walk than be jammed il
the two by four busses and fish for tn
= money. Before boarding car, eacl
passenger usually hunts up coupl
5 baskets or two, and bag Of smokes
e herring so that they will be sure the,
a will get their kopec's worth out of tn
r ride, besides making the atmospher
nice and pleasant for the rest of tn
passengers.
: Ordering Dinner Quite Strain.
I "When a soldier in search of mes
: enters a restaurant, he says to tn
d waitress, 'arishnia, zakazeetie bifstel
s pazalouista, which means, An orde
n of beefsteak, lady please You Sc
: you always say 'barishnia' which rea
ly means girl and until young lad
is married she is always addressed
that manner. She will answer tn
n hungry customer with: Yah ochen 81
jalayu shtoo mas MET yestnik prepaso
siechas' Ia simple home cure for loci
: jaw) means 4 am sorry, but we az
e right out of food today
when a Russian meets anothe
i man he knows on the street, they Iii
/ their hats and uirt with each other
= they stop TO talk, they always shas
y hands, even if they haven't seen eac
n other for fully twenty minutes. The
" they simply must shake hands aga
when they leave. When man mee'
e lady friend, he usually kisses h
. hand and shows her how far he ca
! bend over without breaking his su
n penders.
y. All, he will say, Yah ochen "a
e vs. veedet, kak Wi pozavayetie