| Show in a russian village A traveler in russia writes the no outward aspect ot of a russian village la Is not attractive and thero there la Is little choice in the surrounding rounding eur country between a wide gray plain with a distance of scrubby pine forest or the scrubby pine forest with distant gray plains the peasants houses are scattered up and down without any order or arrangement and with no roada roads between built of trunks ot of treca trees squar ei and aul mortised into each other at the corners the interstices hied filled with moes moss and mud a mode of building warmer than that it sounds in the interior thero there Is always an enormous brick stove five or six sit feet high on which and on the floor the whole family sleep in their rags the beat heat and the stench are rightful frightful no one undresses washing Is unknown and sheepskin with the wool inside are am not conducive to cleanliness russian stoves are in tact fact thick hollow party walls built of brick and sometimes separating or connecting as many as three or four rooms rems and heating them all from one common center the outer sides or these lofty intramural furnaces are usually faced 1 with a igind ot of white porcelain though in some houses they are papered ilka like the rest of the wall so thru that the pres enca of the stove Is known n summer only by two or three apertures aper turea like port holes which have been made tor for tap purpose ot of admitting tho the hot air sometimes especially in country houses the stove or as al it Is called la Is not only a wall but a wall watch toward the bottom projects so as to form a kind of 0 dresser or sofa and which the lacier latter of the inmates nee nse not infrequently in the latter capacity when a stove Is 13 being heated the portholes are kept carefully shut to prevent the egress of carbonic acid gas but after the wood has become thoroughly charred and every ge of name fiame has disappeared the Is closed on a level with the carrot garret floor the covers are removed from the apertures in the side ot of the stove and the hot air Is allowed to pen crate freely into the room which if enough wood bas hair been put into the ka and te tsie lid of the chimney closes hermetically cally will by this one are be kept warn warm for twelve or fora teen hours |
