Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1917 — Everything in Russia Is New Since the Revolution; Even Smile Is Different [ARTICLE]

Everything in Russia Is New Since the Revolution; Even Smile Is Different

Everything is new In Russia As one correspondent sees It, and Petrograd in particular, he declares that even the smile is different. It is without sickness or hypocrisy. The ladies are wearing revolution-color skirts, red feathers in their hats. The Nevsky prospect has become a kind of Quartier Latin. Book hawkers line the pavement and cry sensational pamphlets about Rasputin and Nicholas, and who Is Lenine, and how much land will the peasants get Returned Axlles flit through the crowd, recognizable by the Rue Bertolet cut of their clothes and their hair. Even that ancient institution, the five-o’clock procession of Chinovniks going home from government offices, has lost its typical coloring. One misses at first the staid, familiar figures, till one suddenly realizes that those rather long-haired young men, swinging or slithering along with portfolios under their arms, must, of course, be the new Chinovniks. Newsboys used to carry papers In a bag. Now there are so many papers and such a demand for them that the hawkers have had to improvise stalls at the street corners, and one may pause there and watch the play of political sympathies and antipathies as the hard-faced young workman buys the Maximalist Pravda, or the dreamy student buys the Radical Den, or some stout elderly gentleman buys the Novoe Vremya with a melancholy air of resignation.