TAKING GOOD
CARE OF THE
REFUGEES
In Vladivostok the refugees are
housed in barracks five to ten miles
from the city and to these barracks
the American Red Cross workers go
each morning in Red Cross automo
biles to instruct the refugees how to
live.
The following is taken from a letter
written by an American Red Cross
worker:
Each barrack is a long building with
a small room on each end, the rest of
the space being without partitions. At
first all the refugees lived together in
this large room, but now it is parti
tioned into spaces for two or three
families. Bathing factilities were long
since fitted up in these barracks. At
first some of the residents did not
want to take a bath, as it was "not
time yet,” but others were happy and
thankful to do so. It is no wonder
that they had no facilities before, as
the water has to be carried over from
the hills, which makes it very expen
sive; but now everybody gets a bath
once a week. Of course many of them
want to put off taking a bath "dru
gois-ras” (for another time) or "Va
vtra” (tomorrow.”
Most of the Russians at First Bar
racks are from the Baltic provinces,
Riga, Revel, and Vilna. They have
lost their homes and husbands and
have been in want for three years.
Many of them were once in good cir
cumstances but have nothing now, and
these are the ones who are taking
most intereset in our sewing rooms.
When I first went to start these
sewing rooms I went about asking
who could sew. They were all very
indifferent and at First river only
eight volunteered and those mostly
because they were attracted by the
warm sewing room which we had
fitted up at the end of the barracks.
As soon, however, as they saw chil
dren’s garments made by their own
hands from the nice warm material
the Red Cross furnished, they began
to want these garments for their chil
dren, and when we decided to pay
them for piece-work I did not have
ehought room for all. Now I have
forty-one working in two rooms.
Eager and Patient
The women «make full outfits from
underwear to overcoats and caps.
Some do good work and are very fast.
Several of them make as high as 20
roubles a week; but we were all very
sorry for one little girl who made
only 2 rubles in two weeks. How
she labors every day! But all her
fingers are thumbs, she drops her
thimble because she is learning to use
one, she breaks and loses more needles
than she earns, yet her expression of
delight at a garment she finished is
worth it all, and she confidently hopes
to be ableto some day to make clothes
for her little brother and sister.
One Sunday about three weeks ago
we dressed over two hundred little
children from six months of age to
those aged fifteen in full outfits, all
made in the sewing room. The next
day some of the little fellows had
their panties on wrong way about be
cause you know some of them have
been three years without much cloth
ing of any kind and had not yet seen
pants. Their pretty little red flannel- .
lette Russian blouses were so dirty
and the belts were lost, but they really
looked very cute in their new clothes.
Shortage of Stockings
We had everything for them but
stockings, as we bought up the entire
supply of Vladivostok. That wouldn’t
go around, and even now some of the
children are running barefoot and
without shoes on the cold cement bar
racks floor. In the meantime another
department of the Red Cross opened ■
a soup kitchen and now serves soup
prepared by the Russian mothers, so
every little stomack is filled each day.
While they play in their warm
clothes they begin to think of other
things, and they say to us: “Auntie,
daitcha mnie kuklu,” which means,
“Auntie, give me a dolly,” for you
know they think we can supply every
thing.
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