Delicacies are this year costly, salaries are cut, the city lacks a free exchange, and many fear a reduc tion of staff in summer—but those! factors only serve to. increase the number of visitors, For a man who fs unemployed or handicapped by a limited budget enn do nothing on Easter—except pay visits,.So__he puts on his best tie, sprinkles himself with eau-de-cologne, soaks—in the bathtub—the evidence' of age off last year's yellow kid gloves, brushes his hhair—and fares forth, "And jin halt-an-hour's time even fo an un= employed man the world seems kind and strangely different. Journeying on a rickshaw from house to house, ench one more hospitable than the other, our visitor, having been, treated a trifle too cordially, engages: the vehicle's puller in a philosophical debate, "And now my friend" he says cheerily, "what do you make of the theory of relativity? Nothing? Pity. 'Sa great pity, 'The theory relativity, my' friend, is a wunnerful {thing expecially in' these "uncertain Much Celebration On Saturday night and well into! Sunday morning. all Orthodox churches were packed—as they are every year—and. besides the usual house visits, traditional mutual congratulations were extended in the Ex-Officers' Club, the Russian Club, and other. organizations. Invalids, children and aged women in hostels were not overlooked in the general merry-making, and the poor were fed free of charge. Conversations during visits dealt with" the tradi. tional topic of where to go during the summer—again in defiance of the elements, Everything was the same last year and the years before that—even. somehow merrier, Art Exhibition An exhibition of drawings by Lehonos, well-known not Jonly "as an artist specializing fon Chinese themes but also as a sculptor, will be held in the Cercle Sportif "Francais from May 7 to May 17. The Russian Cathedral in Rue Paul Henry was built by Mr. Lehonos, who last year went on a trip to North China, staying long in and completing many is a pupil of the of famous Prof. RIK. Roerich, An Emigrant's Career Russian newspapers recently told an interesting story of one B, F. Savin who, arriving here from Harbin in search of a job, found an excellent, position in Siam' by means an advertisement in the press. Like all emigrant careers, the career of Mr. Savin is not devoid of interest, In Hsintsin he gave Russian lessons, then became regent of a Church choir, was put in. charge of g mushroom "hot house, "and mally became a bookkeeper in Bangkok. Besides him, the capital of Siam has only seven Russian families. He finds Bangkok an excellent city, regretting only its lack of products "to which a Russian is used." "One of the more sensational events of the last few weeks in the life of the Russian colony' there, he writes, was the receipt of a sack of buckwheat. Vodka is dearer than the best sort of brandy. In one of the! Buddhist monasteries of Bangkok' Mr. Savin met the son of Baron'
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