New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
Nob!cwonan lsales
Russian Men: Calls
Then, WisIay-W as'ay
Saw Reds Have Made Na!ion
Land Of Doesn't Matter,
.Io-morroW, Perhaps
Women Only Salvation

ilXRAN-ON- TIE NcLGA Feb. 10
BY MMll -IC Russia ever amount 20
anything 1t viii be through the Of
ganization OF her women. which has
not yet taken place declared sprght-
IL. merry llttle woman 80 tho corro-
spondcnt on the through rain from
Tashkcnt. IN Furkcstan- 10 Moscow.
Before tho resolution she had borne
the title Of princess.
81 hate Russian men sho went on.
"Thoy arc wi.hy WashY. They have
given us land made Of nitchcyo tit
doesn't matter) aftra tomorrow "a
nicznaNu II don't know) aud avos fpef
h9pe1.'
She had hcen to Tashhcnt 20 suecu-
late IN gold. Everybody had TO %
something to live nowadays
She was tho wife of a Mue uman.
once owning thousands Of acres Of
land. with am income Of 100000 a year.
She had warned him 10 get out Of
Russia three years ago. soil his lands.
but he was obstinate. and now ne was
wandering She know not whore; boih
he and she were separated from thor
children and she bad nearly died In
Soviet prison.
Taxing one thing with another. She
didn t regret hcI sufcrings and losses.
II had taught her a lot She had known
court life. that Of Pars and London.
Nov the revolution had dropped her
into abiect povcrty.
She was tired Of tho struggle. The
prison had broken her spirit / se
many Russians. she was morally bank
rupt She had had hcr nlng in Doitics
and al times had 4 lot Of fun at IT,
She wanted to get abroad, but she Won
dcrcd IL Sc could ever settle down in
calmer atmosphere; she had become
50 used 10 excitement.
Some Of her family had been cNe-
cutcd through the efforts OF aroth er
woman politician. and She had tried to
have that woman and her husband exc
cutod i'm their turn. 1t had been a
struggle between the Reds and the
Mussulmans of the Caspian Sea coun-
try The Reds had won. and she was
made a prisoner by the woman she had
tried TO have executed. 1t was klsmet.
Rather than satisfy ner woman en-
cmy, she had tried to commit suicide
in the Cheka prison by taking an over
dose of cocaine It had failed.
She had been put on the prison train
and shipped north with several hun
dreds Of others. destined to an Arch
angel prison. after the Soviet manner
Of locking up people i'm places distant
from their people and homes. She had
to sell even down to her undcrclothes
10 ErG tUou
Fortunately. She was able 10 make
herself i'll. She put snow on her chest,
caught cold and then the typhus. and
had to be put of at waysidc hospital
There a sister of charity recognized
and bofricnded her and she was brought
back to a semblance OF health, and
through friends in Moscow was hnally
freed. How long her present freedom
would last, she couldn't say. She knew
she could not endure a second impris-
onment. not even for a week. so she
carried about her enough cocaine tc
feat the prison.
Meanwhile she was working. trying
to keep anoat She had sold most OF
her old jewels and things. Sometimes
she did odd Jobs as a scamstress some
times she won't to the country anc
brought in baskets of egg to sell Just
now she was prosperiug. She was send
ing money to her children. She hac
stored away some family jewels in
distant place to keep them as q reserve
for the futurp