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New-York tribune., 1921-07-31

Astor Cup Races To Be Held
On Brenton's Reef Monday
On Monday the Astor cup races for
the trophies offered by Captain Vincent
Astor will be held off Brenton's Reef,
and Tuesday will sec the contest for
inc Kings cup. This year there will
also be additional competition among
the vessels, the Newport Yacht Racing
Association having offered cups for
race among the fifty. forty and thirty
1ooters. This is scheduled for Wednes-
day
Virtually all the boxes in the big
grandstand facing the championship
court at the Casino have been taken
tor the invitation tournament to begin
taere on Monday. Society is usually
represented at this event more fully
tnan at any other of the season, and a
cnecking up of the list of those who
nave taken boxes shows that there
Will likely be larger and more repre-
sentative gathering in attendance this
year than for several seasons past.
some some of the worlds best players, and
altoge0her an impressively represent
aI1Ve gathering of tennis stars, are
eeeh IN the invitation tournament,
%hlcn took the place of the national
champlonships, formerly held here.
August IL has been selected as the
uaee Tor the boys and girls swimming
Iaces at Balley's Beach for the cups
onereo by w. Brett Stokes, who is
Inucn interested in the promotion of
swimming activity among the young
i ossis OF the summer colony. There
WIZ De a contest between the best girl
hnr i
oE tne day following. A cup has been
onered for shis race, but the name of
sne A,e, donor has not been made known.
nNnougn the entry lists have been
.haoe up only few days, there are
aaieaoy nearly as many girls entered
r., ~ participated in the races last year.
me ooys' cup offered this year is
new one. Only youngsters under six
seeh VIII be allowed to compete in the
.s ne new program just given out by
sue Art Association gives notice of
eohsert IN the new auditorium on Au-
Euse ~. The artists will be Bertha
Ia dramatic soprano; Keith Ryan,
sshor' and Oscar da Silva, composer
brother of Lord Fermoy
arrives TO Pass Month
Many members of the summer colony
WI oner prizes for the Rhode Island
neanei Club show, to be held on Au-
Suss IL. Donors already include Mrs.
!; oulfern Taller, Robert Gould Shaw,
.a .ars' Oliver Fl. P. Belmont, Mrs. Gus
pn,,: say ). s. White, John Aspengren, Mrs.
MNnalip Rhinelander, Mrs. Bradford
wSo,iI,mian, M. III. Van Beuren and
william Nh T. Whitahouse.
.. ihe past week has been the liveliest
- lar. There was an impressive round
ainners. and starting tomorrow
'sWport will enter upon one OF the
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the same cause, women. The priest
hood of the Greek Catholic Church,
the national religion of Russia in i'm
list in the allotment of food and
there is no provision for the mainte-
nance of the church. Some way, at
what infinite personal sacrifice only
the women are making it known.
feminine Russia has kept its church
and deeper worship. more primi-
tive religion, has taken the place Of
what in the old days was, to a de-
gree, a ritualistic observance. Under
the empire the priests were looked
upon as part of the nobility and dis
trusted accordingly. Now they have
become necessity in the fear-haunt-
ed lives of millions, for the men are
their women to the church,
es as a source, of comfort and place
OF refuge.
For their religion and their church
these women of Russia dare the boil
sheyist lightnings and defy death
mandates At Trkutsk the reds seized
the ArChpiSnOp Oh olDeTld ana OrUeTeO
him to turn over gold, holy vessels
and images with certain other ar
ticles to them. The aged cleric refused
and was promptly popped into prison.
This happened shortly before the
Easter feast and as the day 81
approached the women
Of the city. seemingly all of them.
to the headquarters of the
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the first thing the reds did when they
took over district. was to publish
and post notices announcing that all
money was contraband with the ex-
ception OF soviet paper issues, and
an explanatory paragraph followed
to say that the capitalists who had
lots Of money deserved to lose it, that
the peasants who had none could
AFFORD to lose it and that the com
mon people who had a moderate
amount should be glad to lose it for
the pleasure of seeing their hated
"capitalistic enemies" rendered penni-
less! Not particularly subtle, but
still a good working plan to excite
class hatred and infiame jealousies.
This same idea, manifested in slight
ly different terms, is disclosed by the
handling of the red army. Lenin and
Trotsky know that they have a wild
beast on leash and unless it is kept
busy killing 1t will turn and rend
them. so their lion is loosed on the
populace. But it may turn. 1t only
needs a man to. lead it, and Russia.
from my observation. is woefully
lacking in men, and. there are no true:
leaders. In all the bolshevist move
nent there Is no leader in the sense
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The Salvation of Raced Russia Rests With Her Womanho(

marks of distinction must not be like
those of the old regime.
Take them off"' ordered the Of
ficer, pointing to the hated marks
of authority. 1 refused and he
threatened We were in the midst
of an argument which my judgment
told me I was going to lose when the
little girl appeared suddenly. crying
in English:
DO not obey him.
She turned to the officer. now
speaking Russian and showing by
her choice of words that she was
educated, saying. ''He is an English
man, a gentleman, too. and not the
mud under horses feet like you" He
replied by cursing her and again
ordering me to remove the marks
of rank. Now the girl was superb.
Measuring the officer from heel to
crown. she dissected him, verbally.
with the skill of a surgeon working
with scalpel of glistening steel on
an interesting case. The officers
waving sword seemed TO mean no
more than a straw to her and she
traced his ancestry to "a gray ape
that died from starvation because it
had not intelligence enough to dis
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MACMILLAN After Two Years Travelling Back Forth Across
L Domain Shows That the Female Portion the Population Not
Supiney Bwing Beneath the Are the Work Men
Refuse DoThey Seem Be mbud With the Idea That the
of the Country Must Be Kept in Some Manner

children from them, because they
were mothers; they scorned red man
dates which tore them from loved
ones. because of womanly gentleness,
and they struggled to hold the fruit
of their toll. because they instinc-
lively knew that humanity cannot be
reduced to the level of it's lowest
member and then plod forward at the
gait of the mentally halt and the
blind. They know that neither law
nor the sword of persecution can
eliminate the personal equation from
the problem of human advancement
All over Russia the men seem to have
accepted the bolshevist theory or if
they have not accepted it they su-
pinely bow.
So far the only concerted part
played by women, and apparently it
has been spontaneous, is in saving
the church. But for them and the
priests every vestige of religion
would have been stamped out by the
reds. In fact, Immediately after the
revolution an effort was made to do
so, but it died the same as the plan
to nationalize women had and for
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the home or the child and then they
fight, fight to the death IL need be.
feel certain that this spirit of oppo-
sition will crystalline as the days go
by. What will come of it?' you ask.
1 cannot say. l try to give you my
Impressions of r <ssia today and let
you form conclusions. But this can
say: The women Of Russia and their
spirit are the most helpful indications
of sanity and humanity in that mad
land
In the rural districts most Of the
work of the fields is done by the
women. They are the web which is
holding together the woof Of this
crazy pattern of blood and mud. It
must be understood that 80 per cent
of Russia is illiterate and the spread
of any unforced movement is corre-
spondingly slow. It is only by word
of mouth that one peasant woman
knows what her sister has done.
In the market bazaar Gala meets
Tanya and Tanya learns that Gala
has saved her butter and eggs from
the red who came to confiscate them
by the simple expedient of refusing to
deliver to him the. food. Tanya caps
this with her story OF a redraider
who went empty-handed from her
farmstead. AS they talk, telling how
the reds threaten and many times do
resort to the sword to enforce de-
mands, Ludmila calls:
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Honey, Food of Ancients

cause Of its whiteness and flavor.
The bees make this honey mainly
from rosemary and related plants.
Bee raising and honey making for
carried on by man from remote times,
and there is a wealth OF classic lore
concerning bees. In ancient days.
and also in modern times. honey has
been extensively used in medicine.
Our ancestors in Europe, even as
had great faith in the medicinal
value OF honey and the old medi-
cal books contain many interesting
recipes. In the far east new honey
fective laxative and old honey rs
an astringent. The Bible makes
many references to honey and ref
erences to it may also be found in
the Koran and the sacred books Of the
Hindus.
The beverages made with the aid of
honey are almost without number.
One was mead" name derived
from the Anglo-Saxon name of honey.
One variety of mead was made by
fermenting liquor obtained by boiling
honeycomb in water. In making
sack k-mead' hops and brandy were
added. 'Metheglin" was mixture OF
honey. hops and yeast Chaucer tells
of a drink called "clarre," which was
Of another drink called bracket,
made Of ale and honey. The Romans
drank "mulsum," which was wine and
honey boiled together. Honey Is also
preservative and when the ancients
had such perishabIe things as birds
eggs to ship long distances they used
to pack them in honey. With the
Egyptians honey was one of the ma
teriaIs used in embalming. 1t was
also used in many ways in ancient
heather religious rites.
Much adQlteration of honey has
been practiced. Imitation honey has
been made from the strip of sugar
cane and from glucose. elm leaves be-
ing boiled with it to give it the honey
flavor. Starch. gelatin and many
other things have been used as adul-
terants. Pure honey when kept for
any length of time in "a cool place
will "granulate" or ''candy" into
solid mass. Some people like it in
that condition. but most prefer it in
the liquid or semi-liquid state. Gran
ulated honey may be restored to the
fluid state by the expert use of heat.
In the commercial production OF
honey as much work as possible is
saved the bees. The making of the
wax cells or comb" requires hard
work by the bees and considerable
time. so the bee-raisers take the
comb from the boxes. slice OF that
part which is called the Gaping,
put the comb in a fast-whirling ma
chine and the honey is thrown out.
Then the comb" is put back in the
hive and the bees resume thek
work Of packing the cells with honey.
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birth and the plan of the bolshevists
to hold them chattels Of the state
made the dull, phlegmatic peasant
girl see in her big-boned, powerful
body an undreamed of tie binding
her to the slenderly formed. delicate
lady. Men suffered, or prof1ted. un-
der the red regime as individuals.
but all women felt the scourge and
as a unit they are standing. a latent
power which the slightest impetus
looses.
have told you of the peasant
girl who defied and scorned the red
guard in the little Siberian village.
She was as big and as powerful as
any man. but it was not the strength
Of arm or body that was her shield;
it was her womanhood. At Omsk
1 saw a child Of fourteen, slight, with
the delicate oval face and wide eyes
of dreamer, rout a red officer. He
had stopped me to demand the re-
moval Of my epaulets-I was wear
ing the uniform Of an officer in the
English army-and il there was one
thing above another that stirred the
bolsheyists to a roaming pitch it
was epaulets. There are, Of course,
officers in their army. but their
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Of female protest to an, order of
things meekly accepted BY men. high
and low. was in a little Siberian VII
lage at which our train 5stppped. A
peasant girl. she may haxs been nine-
teen or twenty years old STOOD near
the rails evidently keenly' Interested
tr these strangrs of whon.I was one.
She was not pretty or even prepos-
sessing in her looks. but there was a
steadfastness in her gHze 1d a GER
tain purposefulness in herr face that
commanded attention. -
A red guard saw here and, advanc-
Ing with a drawn sword. ordered her
away. A slow flush mounted the
girls face, for the guards words
were Shiny with disgusting filth. The
girl sprang toward him and the
guard, sword and all retreated. Then
Z storm of words broke. 1t was mag
nificent, and though I did not under
stand every word 1 could feel that she
was, as one might say. adequately
meeting the situation.
x +
secHES burning him up" whispered
~ companion who Understood
colloquial Russian. "She hasn't said
. thing that might not in
a drawing room. but, she's. making
even that lump cringe.~ II WAS true.
Tho red guard lost AhisnseW in the
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BY e. A. MACMILLAN.
yopyffght. iss,. by Public ledger Coz

Copyright. iss,. by Public Ledger Coz
TT WAS a woman who gave the
bolshevists their first serious
jolt. She fought the nationaliza-
tion of her sex and her sisters
rallied quickly and womanhood re-
mains womanhood in Russia. while
manhood seems weakening. At first
the bolshevist theorists attempted to
etem the rising tide of opposition. but
soon they saw the disgust and abhor-
fence of their plan, for the state own
ing and allotting of women was like
~ to bring them on the rocks. Ma
tionalizing women dropped from the
program, not through any direct pro-
aouncement, but because the women
would not have it. 1t is significant
TO note that the sinking efforts to en-
force the provisions melted before
the flames of opposition and that
women have spken their minds, as
women will with fine disregard for
consequences, on other phases of boil
shevist rule.
My first glimpse of the sharp steel
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Walter Irritated.

TT is, perhaps. unnecessary to give
the name of the New England city
which is the residence Of the lad who
figures in this story.
There had been visitor and to this
lad she said. And so this is little
Walter? My, my! What a big boy
you've gzown to be, I wouldn't have
believed it possible"
Mother" said Walter when the Wis
itor had gone, doesn't it pass your
comprehension how persons in whom
one would naturally expect an urci-
nary degree Of Intelligence appear to
believe. all history and nature to the
contrary, that the children Of their
acquaintance win always remain in
fants and persist in expressing sur
prise when they observe the perfectly
natural increase in ones stature?"
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tinguish its ear fom its mouth" I
gained courage, and. when she stop
ped for breath. began TO fight my
first battle. The officer walked away.
but not because of me. He was
afraid of that slip of a girl, who
turned to me, saying:
Don't you ever take them OF,
ever" and she, too, vanished in the
dusk.
A peasant girl of the fields cowcd
a soldier: gentle-bred child awed
an officer. All. those Russian wom-
en-. Is there a northern Joan of Arc
in their midst awaiting the voices"
to call her to free her land? do
not know. but 1 am certain the
women Of Russia are learning their
strength and they are no friends of
the bolshevists.
In my next installment. treating
of the economic situation, / shall tell
of the conditions as I found them in
Russia and compare some of the
production figures of the present
with those of the empire.
The third article of this series will
appear In the magazine section Of
next Sundays Star.
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commandant and demanded the arch
bishops release SO that he might cele-
brate the Easter mass. So insistent
and determined were they that the
commandant weakened. His naughty
bluster failed. his arguments were
met and squelched and the archbishop
was liberated. Again the bolshevist
theory failed to work and again
women were the rock on which it
broke.
j. X 4
N ATURALLY the bolskevists are
long on meetings. That is the
one thing they do well and enthu-
sIastically. for by them they hope to
spread and then root their propa-
ganda in the people. Women, al
though they have an equal voice with
the men. take but little part iH
them. Despite the fact of their So
called emancipation the home and
children are still the Russian wom-
ans kingdom and subjects. They pay
little if any attention to the fine spun,
theories and mandates until they touch
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r ONEY il one of the human
foods which has been well re-
garded by mankind since the

r YONEY il one of the human
IL foods which has been well re-
garded by mankind since the
beginning of the race. and its
present consumption, while not so
great as it might be. or perhaps as
it should be. is quite general through
out the world. And there are more
kinds of honey than a man who has
not pursued the subject knows of.
There is honey varying in shade from
clear white, through all the degrees
OF yellow to brown. Most of the
people Of the United States know
this. but the probability is that they
do not know that there is honey
which is black and sour. that there
is green honey, rose-colored honey
and that there is honey which is the
color of walnut liquor and honey
that is red. There is also honey that
Is poisonous.
Honey is of many different favors,
according to the kind of blossoms the
bees feed on. Light honey is gath
cred from clover. apple. locust and
other early blossoms. while the dark
honey is made usually from the bios
SONS of buckwheat. goldenrod and
other autumn flowers. Honey also
varies in color and flavor with the
breed of the bees, which take the
nectar from the flowers.
In Brazil lives a wasp which pro-
duces red honey. and this is de-
scribed as being poisonous. though it
is very sweet. 1t is said that in va
rious parts of the world where wild
bees make their honey out of the
flowers of the rhododendron and the
wild azaIea and mountain laurel the
honey of those bees has an irritating
and narcotic effect on men. There is
IN extensive literature on honey and
"a IL one may find many references
10 honey that is harmful.
Honey obtained by bees from the
blossoms of white clover is usually
'-roenish- yellow in color and, this
Is accounted as excellent honey, In
the British Islands honey obtained
by bees from the blossoms Of
heather is ranked high in the honey
scale. The color of that honey is a
Lark, rich yellow. '.
In Brazil there is a stingless bee.
whose honey is sour if obtained from
90 rtain flowers and of good quality II
obtained from other kinds of flowers.
one of the famous varieties of honey
js that called Maltese" because pro-
uuced in Malta. where the bees are
said to feed principally on orange
blossoms. There is another famous
money called "Narbonne," which is
held in high repute in Europe be-
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leaders existed In the French reign of
terror, for instance.
X
DUT the women! The spirit Of
Charlotte corday seems alive in
every one of them. They hate the
tyrants of the land as bitterly as the
maid of Caen hated Marat, and it is.
to my way of thinking. more than
possible that a knife thrust will do
for Russia what it did for France,
rid it of a monster. An invisible
bond, strong as steel and tough as
copper, seems to bind all Russian
women into body that must be
reckoned With, fT9o appSsaiattss attssn thi{.
sisterhood it must be recalled that
in the old days feminine Russia was
divided into two classes to a more
marked degree than in any other
civilized country. There was the
gentlewoman3 and the peasant. and
between them a chasm About all
they had in common was their sex.
The revolution leveled the barrier of
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girl resumed her inspection of US.
Were you not afraid he might
strike you with his sword?" asked
my companion.
Bah, the son Of a swine has no
heart" was the response; none Of
them has"
AS our train moved on I pondered
the incident as an example of cour-
age, but did not consider it as being
typical of Russian women until had
witnessed several episodes of SIM
liar character in which women. from
the peasant in the field. with her bare
toes buried in the brown soil. to the
lady who had graced a palace had
outfaced. outgamed and dehed the
bolshevists. 1 saw women, gray and
gnarled with toll; women, slim OF
hand and naughty of face; women,
and yes. bad, too. stand steadfast be-
fore their oppressors. How can such
women mother a race of Such spine-
less men?
In Irkutsk 1 saw a red guard scat
ter a peasant woman's little supply
of foods she had brought in to barter.
On the pavement were few pounds
of butter, an overturned can Of milk
and maybe half dozen eggs.
Through her tears she cursed that
man to the pit; him, his ancestors
and his children, all were reviled. He
did not strike because he was afraid.
not of anything the woman might
have done to him, not from any hesi-
fancy to slay a woman. but because
she cowed him.
"An old fishwife," you say. Maybe.
but she put the fear Of woman in the
heart of a man who knew the fear
Of neither God nor man, and that Is
some achievement. But listen to this:
In a prison van was a father and IN
some way his daughter. a girl OF
about fourteen-her appearance be-
spoke gentle breeding and good blood
had managed to reach his side on
the hour he was to be taken away.
The red guards clustered, shouted
and tried to drag her away. They
threatened to kill her. and her trem-
bling lips. which she had just pressed
to her fathers cheek. stiffened into
hard lines as she Kissed pigs at
them. 1t was a picture. this little
girl with her arms clasped about her
fathers neck as if she would hold
him despite all the red guards in
Russia and the man trembling and
ouavering., At the threat she turned
SO that could see her profile and
every vestiEe of tenderness. grief and
fear went out Of it. Pig" That lit
tie girl did not fear the boishevists,
and she walked out of that prison
pen with as much dignity as Marie
Antoinette went to the guillotine.
THE second test of strength be-
tween the bolshevists and women
came in the enforcement of the at
tendance of children at clubs. In ad-
dition to directing the instruction of
children in schools, the bolshevists
insist that they attend clubs at which
the red doctrine. brought down In
words Of one syllable, is taught every
evening. The mothers are resisting
and 1 believe their resistance will
force the abandonment of the scheme.
They demand. and fight il necessary
to enforce that demand, that their
children shall be left with them in
the home. even II it is only a hovel.
)They fight for the home as an institu-
ton.
So far I have tried to show you
Russian womanhood from a purely
personal side. They fought and foiled
the plan to nationalize them. because
it was abhorrent to the Individuality;
they. defied the reds to take their
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Here is a ukase" Gan. order). rs
there one here who can read?"
Such one is found and word by
word the order is spelled out.
What. the old, money is no good,
We must take those slips of paper of
the bolshevists?" the. women cry.
Ludmila, you have wool and / have
butter" And thus barter is again
in vogue and they are back to the
old moneyless days.
The Russian peasant woman has
learned how to circuinvent the reds.
In this connection let me say that