The regulations for abolishing mourning in Warsaw are issued. Women
wearing it without a licence will be arrested and taken to the guard-house till they pay the fine named, which means, in nine cases out of ten, that they will also be insulted, or worse. Women who have lost a father, or a brother, or a husband, may apply for tickets to wear mourning. Of women not so licensed, those wear- ing it will be fined, if on foot, 10 roubles ; if riding in a carriage, not hired, 100 roubles; if in a hired carriage, 15 roubles, the owner of the hired carriage being also taxed 10 roubles for each woman in mourning in his carriage. All employis whose children or wives are found in mourning will lose a month's pay, and all pensioners a month's pension. It is the first methodized attempt, as far as we know, to promote joy by taxing and insulting grief. The first result, we suppose, of " the restoration of order," will be—the Six Points and free permission to mourn.
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