. 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 POLISH JEW OK HIGH RANK. 22 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. rank would not surround their waists with girdles as did the humblerJews, and that sometimes the robes of the rich were lined with sable, at acost of many hundreds of dollars. Fred carefully noted the information obtained while Frank made thesketches he had promised to produce. They are by no means unlike the. POLISH JEWS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. sketches that were made by an
. 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 POLISH JEW OK HIGH RANK. 22 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. rank would not surround their waists with girdles as did the humblerJews, and that sometimes the robes of the rich were lined with sable, at acost of many hundreds of dollars. Fred carefully noted the information obtained while Frank made thesketches he had promised to produce. They are by no means unlike the. POLISH JEWS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. sketches that were made by another American traveller (Mr. J, RossBrowne), who visited Cracow several years before the journey of ourfriends. But theres one thing we cant sketch, and cant describe in Avriting,said Fred, and thats the dirt in the streets of this Jews quarter of Cra-cow. If Doctor Bronson knew of it I dont wonder he dechned to come GOING TO THE SALT-MINES. 23 with us. No attempt is made to keep the place clean, and it seems a pitythat the authorities do not force the people into better ways. Its as badas any part of Canton or Peking, and thats saying a great deal. I won-der they dont die of cholera, and leave the place without inhabitants. In spite of all sorts of oppression, the Jews of Cracow preserve theirdistinctiveness, and there are no more devout religionists in the worldthan this people. The greater jjart of the commerce of the city is intheir hands, and they are said to have a vast amount of wealth in theirpossession. That they
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