Identifier: travelogues08holmuoft (find matches)
Title: Travelogues;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Argentina -- Description and travel Chile -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Iguassu Falls
Publisher: Chicago, Travelogue Bureau
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ caps and insistent Russian signs,we might be at a loss to tell our whereabouts. But the Rus-sian alphabet, like the Russian policeman, is everywhere inevidence, telling you in words you cannot understand that you 58 ST. PETERSBURG are a stranger in the land. Some one whose eyes and mindhad been thrown out of focus by these exasperating Slaviccharacters, dubbed the Russian alphabet an A B C inspasms. No wonder that shopkeepers feel compelled toput out signs in picture-language, that may be understoodby the people not fully initiated mto alphabetic mysteries.At every step the observant traveler notes a curious illus-tration of the Russian way of doing things. For example,
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j;,v n, I.uUa TUli OnSriNV UvuK AND Tllli NEVSKY the newsboy, with the aid of a portfolio, makes an effectivedisplay of his periodicals and dailies, while, on the contrary,the theatrical-managers, bound by strict municipal regula-tions, must hide the light of their stars behind wire nettingin the official frames, hung in inconspicuous places. Theadvertisements, printed on tissue-paper, are usually over-lapped or folded. To shroud in mystery the attractions for ST. PETERSBURG 59

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