Show TIIT THE RUSSIAN PEASANTS they are aro fond of about live out of doors and work day and NI ailt tho rho peasants travel hundreds of mile or even thousands thousand s in of work or on pilgrimages the railways bior afford them facilities which were six and twenty years ago and every paring trains arrive at st petersburg and moscow with the third class carriages crai crammed umed with workmen from the provinces mho who leave their wives wives al and ill children to attend to the tile pig p cowand the plot of belong to each peasant proprietor and act as wood v cod cutters portera porters carpenters and in ill id most every mechanical ca capacity p acety in the capitals during the su lumer cr tile they live out of doors and work day and in night taking a well earned sleep at any tiny odd mor moment rient when it if ij convenient in the autumn they return with their wages to their villa villages gei and to save lights man many sleep all tho the dark hour which in ill a russian winter win ter gives them at the most a day not much longer than from 9 to 3 the virtue of ensilage has liali long been unde understood in many of the rus russian ian province A tourist passing through the ili e russian towns in tho the summer sees the men waiting with the change of horses for the tramcars tram cars fast asleep on mats on the ground the horses bending over them and the bridles held firmly in their hands he ile goes away with the impression that the russian peasant is as lazy as RS a neapolitan ea politan mendicant but on the contrary these men aro are sleeping when the aliey y have time for it I 1 to ena ble them to do without sleep during the sun lighted night for t the ae street is their only lodging if they per tuna forto any ablutions at all it is iu in tile neva the blosk va or one of the canals their prayers which seem 13 never ev er to be omitted morning and evening aro are said aid in public before one of the many chapels in an open church or before an image of the vi virgin zin and holy child A street fountain s aplies u liea them with beverage the itinerant dealer in fried bacon fish squares of minced pork fruit cakes bread and all kinds of food carried about abou t on oil trays or a cheap tir supplies their meals the deal dealers es who are attired in clean white aprons and cud culls know all the fast days and adjust their wares to suit them on saturday night when washing is is obligatory if the peasant i is s to as its at mass the next day a russian russia n work workman man usually goes to one of the cheap vapor baths at least in cold weather ather but in summer lie can often get a bachin bath in a biyer for nothing and in summer his cl clothing is of the lightest even in winter 8 some ome of the tile russian workmen contrive to sleep out of doors kepi kept R aeve IV by yet the il e warmth they obtain at the large fires r alres which are lighted in the streets for the public coave convenience and fr the droshky drivers when the tile weather is very 6 severe evere |