The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-10-28
CREATES
MORE BUSINESS
FORCED SALE OF Personal POS
SESSIONS USUALLY LEADS TO
REGULAR LINE OF TRADE
Russian People In Many Instances Pro-
nj AZ Result OF Food Short
age And Poverty BY Sale
OF Personal Effects

Moscow-Food shortage and power
b in Russia has coated a new type Of
people-the spectators, az the Rus.
slams call them. One finds them In
great numbers at the Smolensky IA
mock (market), but also at every street
corner. A certain proportion Of them
are professionals, but the greatest have
become peddlers or street traffickerA
during and since the revolution They
come from all stations Of life, and one
often comes across a duchess, q coun-
tess, not to speak Of a baroness, who 10
quite an ordinary figure within this
line.
1t is usually happens this way: A.
housewife, worn out by the sOrrOws
Of daily life, moneyless and hungry.
collects all her courage and goes to the
market to sell some odd article OF her
probably former luxurious household
She stands In line In the market for
hours and, If she has luck. finds buy.
er for her stuff who either II just In
need of such an article or scents O.
bargain.
The seller, happy to have some
money to keep her going and glad to
escape what she still considers q
humiliation, promises herself never
again will she go thene. She don't unr
II the money Is gone. This time she
rasise her price bit, witted by ex.
| periehce. So it goes on until she has
perhaps nothing more to sell. BY this
time she has lost all false shame and
starts specializing by buying articles
from her less courageous neighbors and
selling them at profit, thus making
an otherwise unbearable life somewhat
easier.
/ met many women on whose faces
were written better days who had es-
tablished regular booths, displaying all
kinds of odd articles. The market goes
on daily from a. m. until p. m.
had a hard time to get away with
my own camera, which at least a dOz-
en- persons insisted In buying from me.
~Skolko?" chow much) they asked,
taking hold of the camera dangling
from my arm, and were utterly aston
lshed when they heard the camera was
, not for sale.
A different type are the thousands
bf street traffickers budding around
svery corner offering poorly made
weets, bread, cigarettes and pastries
made at home. Haggard-looking house.
, wives either sell these articles them
selves or send their children. German
Sacharin seems to be much-asked-for
. article.
Since the reintroduction of free
trade, enterprising youngsters have
:, taken to the flower trade. If you ride
! drosky-especially with female
compartment is next to impossible to
get rid of them unless you decide to
use hard words.
Money can buy everything today in
Russia, just as everywhere else in the
world. With the exception Of booze
u perhaps, here is hardly an article which
e one would not find either at the mar
u kets or in the 1000 newly opened shops
le in Moscow, be 1t French perfume or ,
toothbrush, silk stocking or smok
: ing jacket, a safety razor or American
condensed milk. saw many pair O
brown army shoes with the Unitet
States stamped in the soles. Their
also were samples Of genuine Ameri
can underwear, trench coats and man
other articles familiar to an American
Besides the dozen good restaurant