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The city of the Czars and the city of the Soviets is not to be de-
scribed in a few words, for while the present government is busy undoing
the social mistakes of the past, it is also occupied in preserving the
artistic achievements and is more than ready to acknowledge them.

In the Crimea, where we spent a week or two, we saw the fairy
palaces of Czars and nobility on the Black Sea turned into sanatoria
or summer homes for factory workers. Private property has all been
confiscated on the theory that the land belongs to the working people.

Whatever we in a comfortable democratic country may think of this
overwhelming experiment and glad as we were to have visited the land
where it was being tried, we admitted that seldom in our travels had we
met with a more absorbing problem. Never had we enjoyed a visit to a
foreign country more, never had we been less comfortable, never had
we met more polite but more chaotic people, never had we tasted such
excellent caviare and never did we want to go there again—for at
least ten years.

Elisabeth Underbill says she doesn't
want to no back to Russia very soon

Russia is essentially oriental, rather than
loiekie i'deanptpael,arainvcheich accounts for the Hindu
of this native Russian
learning to use the telephone.

Western ^Atmosphere J^ends 3\ovelty to a

Upsilon's *Best Tarty

U PSILON'S most successful rushing party was an Indian Powwotf
The guests were greeted by Indian maidens and given shingl'
slabs, cleverly decorated, with the name of their reservations ol
them. The reservations were groups of pillows placed at various spots <*
the floor; each one bearing a sign with its name on it.