Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-05
IN THE DAYS NEWS
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Odessa. where newspaper dispatch | es say the flag of rebellion against the | Moscow bolshevist regime Is Haunting | It's coiorss will in week or two seal | up its houses for the winter season. | says a bulletin of the National Geo. | graphic Society from it's Washington. | D. c. headquarters.
 "One peculiarity of this important l port on the Black Sea, as well as of other Russian cities, is that during the first frosty days of the fall the hoteisl and private houses put up their double doors and windows and thereafter>9o through the entire winter without oncs opening an aperture unless it proves necessary to come in or go out of the house. Some say that the inhabitants even go so far as to stop up all the cracks with cotton batting. To Amer ican and English fresh air fends an winter season Is not an unadulterated pleasure.
 "The Odessans have another pecu- liarfty which strikes the average com fort loving American as the acme of queerness. The particularly the army officers wear their winter over coats all during the summer season regardless of how hot it gets. It is hard to imagine a flashing captain of the cavalry equipped in the outfit which he is supposed to wear in the frozen, north, promenading down the main boulevard with a charming young girl clad in dainty summer frock. 'sThe gay city.-for 1t has the reputa- tion of being one of the maddest for pleasure on the whole continent-has l It's pathos, It is one of the main en-
 barkation points for the thousands of Russian pilgrims who each year leave their country for the holy land. Many of them, old men and old women who never expect to see their native land again. and know that they are on their last earthly journey, have marched on foot hundreds of miles to Odessa. "But mad-eap and merry the city
 usually is to all outward appearances.
 In its streets, which are well-paved and nearly always shaded with long lines of trees, the people laugh and lunch in the most light t-hearted fashion. Few of them have real homes. They live in apartments attached to their places of business. Behind a hardware store,
 8 bakery or shoe shop, or adjoining
 the offices of a lawyer or an insurance agent, you will find the rooms in which his family Is living, and the public res- taurant Is in the family dining room.
 "One-third of Odessa's 60G000 in-
 habitants are Jews, and their initiative
 and business acumen have earned for them the most responsible places in
 most of the industrial enterprises in
 the city, as well as the prejudices of
 the native Russians. But so irfespon-
 sible have the younger men among
 their own countrymen become because
 of their indulgence in gambling and
 dissipation of all kinds, that Russian
 peasants prefer to do their business
 through the Jews.
 When evening drops her cloak over
 the city, the night Is filled with music
 and the cares that infested the day, il , there ever were any, steal away like the Arabs in the poem. The farmer , from the Middle West or the manu- facturer from New England would b, inclined to wonder if these night revel- ; CTS ever did any work, so late into tht |. night do they laugh, talk and play. bu' ] by the early forenoon business is hum ming in the marts of men, as 1t does | in any other big city.
 About twenty years ago Odesss
 shipped out yearly through the Blacl
 Sea nearly three million tons of grair i Or about one-fourth of that exported
 from Russia, but she failed to keeI .