SOVIET ADVERTISEMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1922, Page 12

SOVIET ADVERTISEMENTS

Of late "the Soviet newspapers have Aeen interesting to read. The advertisements alone are most entertaining, says "i correspondent of tho London, Daily Telegraph. AWhat with parrots offered for sale at 200,000,000 roubles and rewards for lost cats at 5,000,000, a box at -the opera for 20,000,000, and a typewriter (slightly used) for 1,000,000,000, Vhe papers must find; their' stocks of -noughts hardly- equal -to the : demand. rEvery day there is an average of twenty advertisements of passports and other • identification documents lost or stolen. V'Losing" such important documents seems to have become quite a habit. One wonders what it means. Then there is ft large advertisement of a wonderful toilet soap called the "Royal." For a Communist regime this is rather a dar--ing departure. Another manufacturer ,j_E" a "splendid face cream" hus the impudence to put tho Royal arms of Great -Britain at the top of it. Evidently he 'thinks he can ensure a quick ' sale -through such "patronage." He also -mentions the fact, most interesting to "Communist ladies, that in the olden days he was awarded the Emperor's medal at ■ an exhibition.

There are many thieves in Moscow.. Here is the Moscow Water Board plaintively letting the public know that eight typewriters hove been stolen hi one night from its offices. It lay. stress on the "in one night." Evidently when it Is only one typewriter at a time people »rie.;a«c_stomea to. such a thing hajjueji;,. eg*. " " '