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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 221, 17 September 1919, Page 12

Miss Louise Bryant ie a capable and enterprising American newspaper woman, and in her ".Six Red Months in ■Russia." full of information and enter- , tainment. ehe states slie reached Petro-p-ad early in September. 1017, and left after 'having seen the Bolsheviks in power for several months. Her picture of a scene in the Peter and Paul Fortress, in the cell of a rich Russian, woman charged with plotting against I Kerensky, is bizarre and comical. She. I fitted her cell up with pink satin, and . wore pink satin robes and had laec I covers on her cot: in one corner she j had arranged a shaded electric liphtthnt i looked like a stase moon. In the , evening she -would He back among fie cusiiirme. and the soldiers anrt ' fruards ■would come in and *he would discourse cleverly on literature and art. . Ts it any wonder we cannot umleTstan'l . the Ttussiaus-? Even those who have i lived with them are still nmnzed hv the workings of a temperament so utfpvlv unlike our own. Vet they rnnn-.nl likinc ac nn other xwo.rvle tlo. Mi*a Bryant is another witness to that. J Mosquito net dyed in plain bright ! colours is just now a fashiona-ble ma- ' i terial for window ourtaiia, »reeji being j i-oeonimended for oountry houses, where ij it makes a kindly link between jrardeu ' and house. To>vnfo!k axe often desirous i. of screening windows while aduiittinsr as i much lijrht as possible. One girl in a i third-flood Gat solved the problem by . pastijijr strips of blaok passe-partout ■ bindinij on the window So as to I smiuLite an old-fashion-ed lattice. In 1 aiiotiier room, "liore the lower pan?* had . an ugly view nf opposite huildiius. she • liUod them with la-rge -Tapmiese stencil*. I rhnr>sinj: as l«r<re a pattern ns pos=:li!.--j≤o that iu!lk-k-nt ligUt «•*« admitted.