WHERE tHE EAST
MEETS TIE WEST
‘ For East is East and West is West,
And never the twain shall meet.”
—Kipling.
By William Philip Simms.
TORNEA. Russia, June 4.— (By
Mail.)—And Rudyard was all wrong.
Here, under the Arctic circle, where
May blossoms are still out of sight
under the snow and fishermen must
chop holes through the ice to fish,
East meets West and West meets
East every day of the week.
In the frontier town of Tornea,
the new gateway to Russia, there is
a railway station eating room, and
in that room daily not only does
East meet West and West meet East,
but they eat out of the same dish.
Since the closing of public traffic
across the Baltic and the Gulf of
Finland the only open door between
Western Europe and the great em
pire of the East is Tornea, on the
left bank of the wide and rapid Tor
niojoki. Population, 1,700.
There is one train daily in each
direction—east and west—one dip
ping down through Petrograd and
Moscow and on across Siberia to the
Far East, the other down through
Sweden, thence to the near and Far
West. '»
The Russian customs examina
tion—and passport formalities take
place here whether one be coming
or going, so the arrivals from the
East and the arrivals from the West
are at first kept apart. But once
formalities are complied with. West
and East mingle in the big dining
room which, at the same time, serves
as first and second class waiting
rooms.
Usually customs and passport reg
ulations are tedious, because the
military take minute care of each in
dividual passenger's papers, ever on
the watch for spies. So by the time
all these are attended to one is usu
ally pretty hungry. One is tempted
to whinney like the family horse
when, the halter off, he is allowed to
shake his head and make for the
feed trough.
In thp middle of the waiting room
stands a table laden with steamin?
food. Also clean plates, knives
forks and spoons. In Baltimori
dairy lunch fashion East and Wes
help themselves out of the sam<
dishes, then retire to stand or sit
face to face, eating their fill.
There are all kinds of food, Ori
ental and Occidental. Caviar sand
wiches. cold roast beef, strange litth
hashed-meat balls resembling sail
sages the size of the end of one's
thumb; there are pickled herrings
sardines, head cheese, goulash, whit<
bread, black bread, French rolls
Finnish and Swedish rye cakes, dr>
and thin as a soda cracker and quite
palatable: coffee, tea, milk, water
beer, wine—for wine, you know, can
be had in Finland, though not in
Russia proper. For dessert there are
cakes and pastry and something like
our mothers used to call “floating
island,” only the cream turns out to
be smear cheese and a disappoint
ment. Tarts, too, can be had, and
other sweets, strange and without
names.
When one has eaten all one wishes
he tells the Finnish lady at the
desk—by'word or sign—what dam
age he has done to the center table
and pays. His word is never dis
puted. He is taken to be an honest
man regardless.
When West and East first accost
each other over the hash balls it is
perhaps noon. Neither the train for
the East nor the train for the West
leaves before around 5 p. m., and
walking about the town is discour
aged both by snow and officials. So
they sit around, visibly interested in
each other. An American mission
ary and his wife are in the throng,
returning from China, and he has
two Chinese women as nurses for his
children. He plays waiter and serves
all with food and drink—tea; he
won’t trust the water and his edu
cation is against liquor. A Japanese
youth is munching an egg sandwich.
The big Siberian is tackling the her
ring and black bread. Swedes, Nor
wegians, Chinese, Roumanians, Mon
golians, Spaniards. Tartars, French
Russians, Finns, Poles, Americans
Armenians, Greeks, Italians, Portu
guese, men from the Indies, East anc
West—all are there feeding aboui
the common table. There are al
sorts of clothes, all the tints anc
shades; there are men wearing
skirts and women wearing pants;
some have white faces, some yellow
others red, bron and blacR; some arc
cultured, some are not; there arc
pretty women and ugly, grown peo
pie and babies, civilians and soldiers
all the extremes—the West and
East. But everybody answers the
call of the table; they come 'from
every corner of the world, mingle
here for a day, eat and drink to
gether.
A great Russian oflicer appears in
! the door. He speaks a word. The
] crowd begins to stir. The trains are
leaving. East and “West go their
i ways. In ten minutes the eating
; room Is empty of voyagers, and the
Hired help begins-to clean up the
sausage plates, to prepare more food
I for the earth’s extremes tomorrow.
KISSING PASTOR
IS NAUGHTY BOY
CEDAR GROVE. N. J„ July 7.—
, Having resigned after confessing he
! was a “naughty boy” for kissing
pretty 19-year-old Miss Maud Ja
cobus, the Reverend J. Lewis Evans,
■ 55, “the kissing pastor of Cedar
Grove,” left here today with his
I wife, his luggage and no regrets.
According to the story told by
I Evans, Mrs. Evans and Miss Jacobus
j at the time the kissing incident was
j probed by the Congregational church
standing committee. Miss Maud was
helping arrange the parsonage and
| found Dr. Evans among the furni
! ture in an upstairs bedroom. Dr.
Evans admitted that it was then he
kissed her. The standing committee
sat down on Dr. Evans, demanding
his resignation. His reverence is not
i without friends among the church
folk even now, nevertheless. Lewis
| Evans, no relation, who formerly
j was treasurer of the church, said
, that "even if Dr. Evans has been an
; ass, he has been treated too harshly
; uy me cuuruu.
Dr. Evans said he was glad to
| know Mr. Evans said that. He said
he agreed with him; he “guessed he
had been an ass.”
Miss Maud had been secretary of
Dr. Evans’ Sunday school. She
caused all the row by telling about
the bedroom kiss.
MERCERY NONE TOO FAST
FOR THE YELLOW CAR
Joe Spenard was waiting for Cap
tain D. to come out of the wharf of
j lice and happened to overhear two
gentlemen standing near-by talking
about Mercury, the winged messen
! ger of the Gods, Just as the cap
: | tain reached the entrance he saw
' Joe make a dive for his yellow car.
■ i “Hold up there Joe,” the captain
shouted, “what s your hurry?” "I
am going righ up town to wire that
fellow Mercury," said Joe. “I need
him in my business. He’s got the
speed.” Joe runs the City Express.
Look out for the yellow car. 7-3-tf
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