[Illustration: LENIN, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.
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[Illustration: BUST OF LENIN.
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of Lenin or any one else should be done, the theory being that the
cause, not the individuals, should count. The humblest person who
suffers privation for the cause is equally as important as any of the
legislators, she explained, and proceeded to assure me that no picture
or bust of herself existed, nor ever should. Happily I had not asked her
to sit for me. She practically told me that I was doing Lenin’s head to
take back to England to show to the idle curious. I corrected her by
saying that, so far as the public was concerned, I only wished to enable
those who had him at present represented by a photograph, to substitute
a bust. She was equally vehement about the photograph. Perhaps she
expects to alter human nature.
Before I got out of the car, she assured me that her tirade was in no
way personal and would I, please, not misunderstand her.