Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-11

snowy crest; but whose southwestern front, facing toward Turkey seems dashed into countless precipices by the titanic forces of nature.
 "Once the Caucasus was a fabled land or rivers of gold and rich vine yards, of orchards bent low with the weight of luscious fruit and of storied hills rich in all the known minerals of the age.
 'The Caucasus is the most interest ing rabbit warren of humanity on the globe. For unceunted ages, various people sifted through the secluded val leys leaving fraction of their number In some remote spot so that at one time Ell Azizi said that there were 300 tribes and dialects in the region $50 miles long and 100 miles broad, which he called the Mountain of Languages.
 "Strabe spoke of 70 races of men, some of them armed with poisoned arrows and wearing skin shoes with spiked soles. Troglodytes there were and are. The Caucasus is a sort of three ring group of natural marvels compressed between Europe and Asia, between the Black Sea and the Cas- plan.
 'On the European slope, the Cau- easus is flanked by the Cossaks of the 0 whose banks the famous Tolstoy serv- ed as young soldier.
 "On the Asiatic side, there are the new republics of Georgia, Azerpaijan and Armenia, partly carved from Russian, partly from Turkish lands. Within the Caucasus itself there are still many strange tribes Most | handsome of all are the Mingrelians l and their neighbors the Imeretians l The Gurians and Swans, the Kheysurs, l Pushes and Abkhasians, the Kabards, | the Ossetians, Lesghians, Tchetchens and Tatars,-an are huddled in a region so lacking in roads or modern | communications that each tribe is as isolated as though it possessed a con- 1 tinent of it's own.
 The people who have left tho deep- est impress on the Caucasus, although | most of them emigrated to Turkey in | 1884, are the Tcherkess of Circassians
 The loveliness of their women forms 1 the lure of countless harem tales and l the daring of the men furnishes the contrast to the houri- like charm of the Circassian maidens who made harems popular, not only along the
 beautiful BosphoFus, but in romantic literature as well.
 "The Tcherkess gave to the Caucasu. | and the fancy dress ball the Tcher.
 keska, the familiar skirted costume oi
 the warlike Cessak and the lith, Georgian gTandee. It is the erigina
 opera bouffe uniform, with a marrow
 waist and haring skirts above sef boots without heels This costume il
 also distinguished by eighteen eartr
 idge cases ranged across the chest which is made imposing not only b. 1 this perambulant ammunition dunn
 but also by the fact that the uppe
 portion of the outer garment is lief , unfasteHed so that the dark shirt be , low shows wider and wider toward tn
 top.
 Formerly, real cartridges gave
 truly martial aspect to the dress i Y which a straight sword worn diagon
 ally across the front and another jus as sharp suspended from the side ver l almost the only visible weapons unt
 the automatic revolver came int g fashion.
 But comparative wealth and peac ] overlook the Georgians and the otht
 town dwelleFs who wore the strikin
 dress and gradually these cartridge
 were changed for decorative imitation
 Some of them were made of ebony
 one end and ivory at the ether Thus the Caucasian Beau Brumni , , could, vary the color scheme by rever. ! ing the decorations so that a whir costume would be trimmed in blae