atop a moment and watch the traf
fic as it moves through the streets,
t is continuous and the stream goes
)n and on. There are quaint covered
.vagons, driven by ragged peasant in
'rom the country, droshkies without
lumber, and ungainly carts hauling
luge bales of cotton and cloth. The
lorses have high wooden bows over
heir necks, and every aspect is Rus
sian. There are also carts pulled by
Tien, harnessed to the , front, and
ihoved along by women walking be
hind. There are men and women
carrying on their backs great loads
svhich are sometimes held on by a
strap around the forehead. The au
tomobile and motor truck are con
spicuous by their absence. Man
power and horse-power do most of
the work. There is but little loaf
ng and every one seems on the go.
rhe Manchester Or Poland.
Lodz has been called the Polish
Manchester, after the great cotton
weaving center of England. Before
the war it had 400 mills, and its pop
ulation was about 600,000. The mills
had more than 100,000 workmen, and
the cottons and woolens which they
manufactured were shipped all over
Russia, and to the lands of the Bal
kans. Lodz was created by Russia.
When Boston was a baby it had no
existence, and it sprung into being
only at the command of the Czar.
