St. Petersburg, December 26.
British subjects living in Todia, Australia and other parts of the Empire sometimes complain that they do not get real Christmas weather at Christmastide; and for that matter, the inhabit~ ants of the British isles often make the same complaint. But no such drawback is ever mentioned by Britishers living in Rassis. This year the weather in St. Petersburg has, in fact, been too Crater degrees Reamur wind thet seemed to penetrate to the low freezing point scoompanied by a
marrow of one's bones. Like most foreigners here I wear furs, a fur cap for my bead and on my overcoat huge far collar that, when raised, covers both sides of my face but, in spite of that, I was stopped on the street yesterday and the day before by passers-by who kindly told me that my nose was getting frozen. By timely friction I managed in both cases to save the organ in question, but a cor-tain amount of swelling still remains to show how narrow has been my escape.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.