. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A BUSINESS MAN OF WARSAW. We could have spent hours in studying it, and you may be sure we left itwith great reluctance. Warsaw has a population of nearly three hundred thousand, andthere are a good many factories for the manufacture of carriages, pianos,cloth, carpets, and machines of various kinds. The city is the centre of a 56 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. large trade in grain, cattle, horses, and wool, and altogether it may
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A BUSINESS MAN OF WARSAW. We could have spent hours in studying it, and you may be sure we left itwith great reluctance. Warsaw has a population of nearly three hundred thousand, andthere are a good many factories for the manufacture of carriages, pianos,cloth, carpets, and machines of various kinds. The city is the centre of a 56 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. large trade in grain, cattle, horses, and wool, and altogether it may be con-sidered prosperous. Much of the business is in the hands of the Jews,who have managed to have and hold a great deal of wealth in spite of tJieoppression they have undergone by both Poles and Russians. The women of Warsaw are famous for their beauty, and we are allagreed that we have seen more pretty faces here than in any other cityof Europe in the same time. The Jews of Warsaw are nearly all blonds;the men have red beards, and the hair of the women is of the shade thatused to be the fashion among American and English actresses, and is not. IX ST. PETERSBURG. yet entirely forgotten. We bought some photographs in one of theshops, and are sure they will be excellent adornments for our albums athome. In the evening we went to the opera in the hope of seeing the na-tional costumes of the Poles, but in this we were disap23ointed. Theoperas are sung in Italian ; the principal singers are French, Italian, Eng-lish, or any other nationality, like those of opera companies elsewhere, andonly the members of the chorus and ballet are Poles. Russian uniformsare in the boxes and elsewhere in the house, and every officer is requiredto wear his sword, and be ready at any moment to be summoned to men not in uniform are in evening dress, and the ladies are like those IN ST. PETERSBURG. 57 of an andience in Vienna or Xaples, so far as their dress is opera closed at
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