The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1931, Page 10

~ 10 Wooden Shelf During Eight- j Day Trip in Siberia ‘Editor's Note: This is the ninth of a series of stories deal- ing with Soviet Russia. By JULIA BLANSHARD Staff Writer for NEA Service ‘Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc. translation of the third class, “zhost you travel in a third class carriage. ‘wash rooms; and “soft” (“myakhkt”) “provdnik,” three rubles ($1.50). Third Class Passage, Popular in Soviet Russia, Found None Too Comfortable * American Woman Slept Biles an old, fat-peasant woman and P | her two children a piece of gum which she chewed with great energy for several hours. The next day each child in turn got the gum. xe * If you travel first or second-class lin Russia, you must also revise your | traveling habits. At the border the lintourist guide tells all Americans i that they may get a stranger of the | opposite sex in their compartments. )' Coming out from Moscow I drew a When you travel in Russia, you) lower berth in a “soft” compartment should travel as the Russians do, and! for four, with an American engineer that is “hard.” “Hard” is the literal] and a Russian chemist as my com- -|panions. When I was ready to turn ky.” It describes quite accurately the|in, I merely said so and they both board shelf on which you sleep when} got up and went out into the corri- | dor to smoke. ‘There are two other choices for you I closed the door and then I un- besides “hard,” the costly wagon lits| dressed, opened the door, crawled in which afford you luxurious, spacious and turned my face to the wall. When compartments, with semi-private] the last person in was ready for bed, »{he shut and locked the door, and, or second-class cars, which have up-| turned out the light. In the morn- holstered compartments that can be| ing the plan was reversed. made into presentable beds with dis-| @¢—————_——-__—- @ infected sheets, pillow slips and blan- | Schrunk | kets by paying the train guard, ——* ‘Traveling third is a distinctive ex-| By MARGARET MARCHANT perience for an American, as I dis- covered when I occupied my wooden) mr, and Mrs. R. G. Marchant mo- shelf for eight days crossing Siberia|tored to Wing Wednesday. from China. These third class cars| Jacob Heimbuch was @ caller in have no enclosed compartments. A|wing Thursday. worridor runs down one side of each} Wenzel Kozinlk spent Wednesday var and at right angles to it, across|evening at the Carl Johnson home. the car, sections of wooden seats are] werman Neiters motored to Wing puilt, exactly like wide pantry shelves, | Thursday. fn tiers of three on either side of the) wr. and Mrs. R. G. Marchant and ‘windows, with each shelf far enough! son LeRoy and Mrs. Kate Plattner @ tall adult to sit erect. * * ‘warm, « great national drink, tea. ‘Wotvetir * * Small apples or two plums, 50 cents. black bread. xn aR jabove the one below it to allow even|snent Wednesday eveng at the Her- man Neiters home. spent Wednesday evening at the Her- * «. Leaving Moscow for the Ukraine,/man Neiters home Thursday. tmy next-shelf neighbor, a stenogra-| 1, ©, Marchant called at the Orby pher, took off her new pale gray kid/pailey home Thursday. shoes, tied them onto her belt s0) Wenzel Kozinlk was a business call- no one could steal them, pulled her|er in Wing Thursday. coat over her and lay down to sleep,} Mrs. J. E. Witt spent Thursday with having put her stockinged feet in-|;iss Mabel Lytle in Wing. Bide her food basket to keep them| sunday visitors at the Fred Smith home were: Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy The Red soldier on the shelf over/yzarchant and son Lloyd, Mr, and me put his new kodak, his pride and) Mrs, R, G. Marchant and Mrs. Kate hy and the envy of the whole train,| piattner. mder his head for a pillow. On the] yr, and Mrs. Philip Wah! and fam- #helf under me a fat peasant woman] ijy spent Wednesday evening visiting ‘and her little girl slept, one heading] at the Dave Hochhalter home. ‘one way, the other the other, with) awin Triebwasser recently spent b dirty, gray woolen comforter com-|» few days as the guest of his cousin, pletely covering them both, head and) Gust witt. ell. A surprise party was given Satur- i When morning comes, odd-looking| day for Mr. and Mrs, John Bailey who ‘bundles, are opened to reveal black|recently were married. It was held bread, sausage, cheese, hard-boiled) 9+ the John Fode home. eggs, tea, all wrapped up in shirts,| fdward Stroh was a business caller towels, baby clothes or right in with|9¢ the Gust Frey home near Denhoft the family bed clothes. Real democ-| sunday, eg holds sway. You take your place)” tom Novak, Herbert Hoffman, the ‘line for the toilet, you take /Gust Witt and Emil Stroh were Sun urn standing corridor at the Marchant king out the windows and heat svbdaag viet ead train stops you rush for a go ‘Tracy Johnnie were in the line in front of the “iD-|gunday viitor® atthe Pred Smith ” the hot-water faucet which| nome, 4 )Russian stations keep steaming|" mil Stroh motored to Harvey Sat- urday. Gust Witt, Edwin Triebwasser and When you travel as the Russians man spent Saturda; = you learn to avoid the diner. Rus- bitinld sapctnaey: vee vests es are ee Srenegonany and! Henry Seibel was a Tuesday eve- more expensive than our Amer-| ning caller Marchant: diners. Hod acca ee Laie ‘home. Se nts s ways dingy. ters look exact ‘Miss Rose Ryan spent Monday vis- the train guards with khaki sults! iting with her sister, Mrs. A. F. Novy. caps that have the Communist|’ peimer McClellan and E. Stroh mo- kle and hammer on them. A g00d|tored to Bismarck Thursday. eal costs several dollars. I pald) wr, and Mrs. R. G. Marchant mo- {1.50 for a tureen of indifferent fish}tored to Wing Wednesday. ip, sandwiches were 50 cents and! wrs Emil Zelmer and her sister Miss Esther Johnson spent Friday At Sinelnikov we had a three-hour’ Hochhalt i ccciasire get taicis for Aacich, Zealt| Worl wre, Deve ee ree atte, the waiting room was used for a cafe-|is spending this week with her sister, feria. Three long tables, each with) yrs, Emil Zelmer and family. ‘worn oilcloth, filled the center of this) Margaret and Irene Marchant Yoom. For 60 kopecks (30 cents) Welsnent Friday evening at the Dave got tickets for a hot plate which @/Hochhalter home. waitress in a soiled white apron! sunday supper guests at the Fred Speen’ aes ee Smith home were: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hewed tomatoes, and two slices of|eract ama som Lloyd, and hire, Kate Plattner. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Stroh motored At Kramatorsh, in the Don Cos-|to Wing Thursday. _ country, moe sen Crd tac-| ¢———______________@ les are causing a boom, blocks of women sold broiled chickens for 50 | Stickler Solution | cents each, round cheese, fried fish |= * pf several kinds, 15 cents each, in- luding & tiny searlet fish that looked loulve T sh, ly tals mio ; er and tasted even better,) | twlzleur ; Some cheese, pats of butter, 50 cents, wu He fase whe ° ay Ean hard-boiled eggs, {0UF) | eter viak, clecelve sul, ) Here I saw a little barefoot boy| | zleur wiups, lw slaniua, With a big brown earthen jug of] | civ; Tit elsive selawr, boiled milk he was selling, running 1 if lech / if his fingers around the inside of the| |N/GHT‘S ViRciIN PiLarin Yug and sucking them and then stick-| |swiws Iw vivio elewr. ing them in again to repeat the pro- ess as he ran from platform to plat- ‘When the letter “I” is inserted 40 | form to offer the milk for 15 cents a » glass. i One day, down in the Caucasus, I “After 30 years of laying ’em in the aisle, yqu play me below a flock of fish.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1981 DON'T LAUGH WELL- '! 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