'Then, there was a farm, with poultry and livestock to be' supervised, and a small corps of field workers and less well-fixed peasants to care for the house. That took all the time of the young couple. They dreamed of somehow educating their children, when children should bless their marriage, But' when children came, there had been years in the Russian Army for Afanasy Maximovich. A lithograph of the Grand Duke who commanded, neatly framed, still hanging "No. Herald" Photo Mrs Zaltzeff, widow of the watchman who hanged' himself on the premises the YMCA, with one! of her face of greater financial diticulties than ever. "As the representative of the ""North-China Herald" rose to go, Mrs. Zaitzeft reached out a worn hand, and with perfect courtesy, shook hands and bowed. Over her head burned the all before the ikon which symbolizes her faith.
"Perhaps yet, somehow, the children can be educated in an English school where they will learn handcrafts, and practical things that will make the world want them because they are useful." she smiled. It was soe first smile she had—attempted throughout the interview, and the reporter could only echo with as much encouragement as could be rected from the sight of her "home," "Perhaps!"—and stumble} back down neck-breaking stairs fan airless corridor, and out into. the clean, fresh air, via a black hole of 4 Chinese kitchen.
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