Not a little has been heard of late of the changes in Bolshevist government in Russia, of the freedom regained for individual trading and the gracious permission now extended to the bourgeoisie to exist. Also the Dalta news sheets contained, only yesterday, a tremendous list of various articles available for export. The pathetic little letter that we publish to-day from an old lady living in Russia suggests that the facts of life under Bolshevism need a great deal of gilding before they are fit for foreign consumption. There are one or two sentences which specially appeal: Tea and sugar are seen sometimes by a few people"'—as who should say, in a museum, too precious for use. And again "Oh, if it were possible for me to have some natural tea with sugar, and then, die." One would like to send her some, but would she ever receive it? Incidentally, a question' that must have presented itself to many people. What will Russia do to reinstate the rouble. Will she ever be able io do anything. Or will she henceforward think in thousands of roubles as the Portuguese think in thousands of reis and the Chinese in strings of cash?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.