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Show LAZY VOLCANO MADE -TO WORK IN TINY VILLAGE CHAUDES-AIGUES. France. June 12. This watering place in the Au-vergne Au-vergne Mountains, with a population of 2,000, probably Is tho only place outside tho tropical and sub-troplgal zones where the heating of homes is no problem, tho scarcity and high cost of fuel notwithstanding. Not a chimney is to be seen In the village, which Is surrounded with peaks snow covered from October to Mav. Neither stoics nor ranges nor boners aro to be found; neither coal nor wood nor any other kind of fuel Is used here. Nevertheless, the houses aro comfortably warm even when the temperature Is below zero. The town Is built in tho crater of an inactiyo volcano. A number of stone-covered stone-covered wolls furnish boiling water which flows through mains beneath tho rows of housea. In the floor of each house are scv-oral scv-oral holes loading to the main pipes. To heat a houso t.ho covers of the holes aro removed; to prepare a meal a pot Is lowered to the flow of boiling water. Outside the town Is a largo pond of hot water whpro tho women wash clothes. |