The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1931, Page 8

WE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1931 Soviet Wife Does Not Have Housework Advantages Available in United States Most Families Are Crowded ine our grits). Desserts don’t bother her. to Two-Room or One- Room Apartments | I Editor's Note: This is the fifth The children may have a sweet cake or everybody some compote of fruit. ee % If you were a textile worker's wifs, |you might live as do the family of |Ivan Zubenko, his wife, Vasilisa Ki- bf a series of stories dealing with | Josov, and their three children of Boviet Russia. By JULIA BLANSHARD Staff Writer for NEA Service school age. Both Ivan and Vasilisa work in the rayon mills and get about | 65 rubles ($32.50) a month apiece. | ‘They live in a model concrete apart- ‘Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.)) ment their factory built for its work- If you kept house in Russia— ‘You would find that you consume more time and get less done than you would in any other country in the! world. You could not step to the corner) chain store and order a list of staples to be delivered. You could not phone your butcher for meat and vegetables. everything, bring it home yourseli and often have to wait in queue for hours to buy milk, potatoes, fresh fish and the like. Moreover, there might be nothing that you want left by the time your turn comes. ‘In September I saw the first truck Joad of frankfurters delivered that ‘Moscow had seen in over a year. Be- fore the man had half unloaded the truck there was a waiting line of buyers two and a half blocks long. ‘You would find it an advantage to he married to an expert machinist rather than a bank president. Ma- chinists are in the “first category” of government food cards. ‘They are allowed the largest rations of meats, fats, sugar and bread. If you are a statistician or other brain worker, you will rate only a “fourth category food card, * * * Moscow has no streets of private homes. Apartments are everywhere, big stone apartments built on the| edge of the sidewak with no lawns or ‘trees in front, but usually with huge courts between them. If you lived in Moscow, you would’ five in one of these apartment houses and would climb to your floor with no thought of an elevator. And you ‘would be lucky if you had more than ipne room. ; You would have electricity and running cold water. You would have furnace heat or a big, built-in Rus- gian wood stove. You would have no ‘vacuum cleaner, or even a modern room, You probably would use a Russian broom, made of twigs tied to a handle. If you were an engineer's wife and Sheld down a job yourself, your fam- ily might live much as do Ossip Iva~ nov Palovlich and his lawyer wife, Nina Petrova. They, their two chil- ren and Nastya, the peasant girl maid, live in two rooms of a second floor nine-room apartment that used to belong to e doctor and his wife. A * * Ossip and Nina are the only fam- My in the apartment that has two rooms! The other seven have one room apiece for the whole family. ‘There is one bathroom, one toilet, one wash sink in the apartment for 22 persons. Sometimes a queue waits 4n line for the toilet. Eight women cook meals in one kitchen, where in winter a big range facilitates matters, In summer each ‘woman has one or two primus stoves (portable one-burner kerosene lamps) on which the majority of Russian women cook. Stores where Nastya shops after she gets the children off for school are only two blocks away. Over half ‘of Ossip and Nina’s combined monthly salaries of 312 rubles ($156) goes for food. But their rent only costs them 64 per cent, their clothes bill is small ‘because there is nothing much in the way of new things they can buy. They do not worry about savings, for the government has them insured ggainst sickness and old age. * * OK Supper is Nastya’s big responsibil- fty. There is no set breakfast to ers, nearby the plants. They have two rooms and a bath- room and the use along with three other families to the kitchen on their | floor, Ivan and Vasilisa’s apartment house belongs to a group of six that have a cooperative kitchen and res- taurant. More than half the time Ivan, Vasilisa and the children get | their cabbage soup, dried fish, black, ou avoud have to go in person for pread and tea there along with 200 neighbors and take it home and re- heat it. It is cheaper and much less work, If you were an American woman married to a Russian citizen you would live as these women live. 352 Motor Vehicles Bought in October A total of 352 motor vehicles were sold in North Dakota during Cctober,' when 277 passenger cars and 75. trucks were purchased, according to statistics compiled from motor ve- hicle registrations, To date this year 7,189 passenger! cars and 1,426 trucks have been sold in the state, bringing the total for both to 8,615. A total of 12,502 pas- senger cars and 2,766 trucks were sold during the 10 months period last year. In October of last year 277 pas- senger cars and 166 trucks were sold. Cass county took the lead in num- ber of automobiles sold per county in, both trucks and pleasure cars with nine trucks and 59 passenger cars. In the passenger automobile divi- sion Stutsman was second with 21, Grand Forks third with 16, Other counties included: Morton 13, Bur- leigh and Ramsey 11, and Barnes 9. Barnes and Grand Forks counties rated second to Cass in number of trucks sold in their county with THE DOCTOR To SEE HENRIETTA - ALL SHE DID WAS CALL DELIRIUM - Tom ' TOM i) Tom! Cliemoa= IT MADE Bim FEEL PRETTY SORE - 88 t) FAKByY ABOUT OF THIS — Why DOES SHE CALL FOR TOM=WHEN SHE TOLD ME THAT GIVEN HIM UP— AND IT'S ALL OVER BETWEEN THEM=— PY CAN'T MELP BUT THINK THERE IS SOMETHING THE GUMPS—ON THE WAR PATH \F SHE CAN RAVE ABOUT ‘Tom CARR. SHE CAN'T BE SO SICK- I'M GOING To CALL ON HER AND FIND OuT NOW WHETHER IM BEING MADE A FOOL OF OR Not — \ DON'T HAVE ‘To PUT UP WITH THIS = ALL SNE_ HAD seven, while Burleigh had 6, Ramsey 4, Morton 3, and Stutsman 1. Engagement Rumored worry about. Ossip, having to travel) § ‘almost an hour on the crowded street cats out to his plant, gets his own thot tea and piece of black bread and Jeaves before the children are up. Nina walks about a mile to work, so gets herself tea and bread as Nastya fixes things for the children. They have cocoa, if Nastya got up early end went to the store after it, for there is no milk delivery in Moscow Otherwise they have coffee substitute or tea. They may have an egg, a bit of cheese or some sour cream with their hot drink and black bread. Woons they eat at school. For supper Nastya always serves Boup. After the soup Nastya gives the family a cutlet made of the chop- ped meat mixed with cereal and fried an sunflower seed oil. With this she thas potatoes or kasha (a cereal like SIDEGLANCES - Her mother insists that she go ba: hens stockings on her ‘Associated Press Photo Engagement of Princess Ingrid of Sweden to Count Nils von Rosen, Swedish army officer, Is rumored in London. The reports say King Gustav, grandfather of the princess. opposes the match. ge A | Stickler Solution Pee Aways couecl RENT IN THE x FIRST. _ TRENTON, as shown above, is the y Gy hich was concealed in the above 2? By George Clark AEG. U.8, PAT. or”. ” ©1931 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. gecd all vantev, but I always put’ the minute we're out of sight.” w WALT, PRIGGY q Waa SSS SSS SSV FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS Hou, Frecvies!/ _OSSIE'S GONNA AUCTION OFF * HIS CoG! i. BUT I-CAN'T REACH WE HALL LIGHT TRY LADDER “AND “THE GIWMIES HBONEN'T RETURN SALESMAN SAM HERE TO TAKE LORA TO THE MOVIES AND HE'S INVITED OS TO GO, 1S TELL HIM "mM NOT INTERESTED. UNCLE: WALT, PRIGGY HAS TAKEN LORA AN’ AUNTIE BLOSSOM TO THE MOVIES. 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