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Show STOVE IN THE POCKET. Chines Wsrd Off Winter's Rigor by j Carrying Hand Furnaces. I The contented smile of the "heathea f Chinee" may be partially accounted tor by their Indifference to the cold-nesa cold-nesa of the winter month. For I th north of China thny rare not whether they be Indoors or ont; they 1 always have a atore with them In tba shape of a hand furnace. Instead of the lire being placed In the houae It Is carried about the person, beneath th thickly padded cotton garments er In the hand: at times It Is plsrsd beneath the chair on which the Celestial Celes-tial la aeated. The discovery of thla i nnique method of avoiding wlntera 1 j rigor waa made by a traveler In Fu- klen province, whose attention wa at- : tracted to tha universal and peculiar ? i deformities nf It Inhabitants. Strange 4 ' . swelling projected In the most unao- . rountsbls plr.ces on the anatomy of . I the villagers. Speculations were aet ' I at rest by an old K"ntleman, who re- ' j moved his coat ant dla"loi-Fd a small J , 1 copper furtiBcn secured around his ?' waist with a hand and really coverod - a with basket work. Thla artificial J I mode of warming the body la only re- , I sorted to In time of extreme cold, aa I on ordinary occasions tho people deem I j their think clothing a sulllcient pro- j I tecllon during winter. I |