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Show oo RUSSIANS LEARN TO WAIT CIT THEMSELVES MOSCOW, Dec 31. Every day life In Ru.-sia is a crv practical lesson In self help. When the central heating apparatus falls, and heating plants which have not been repaired for seven sev-en years often fall one buys a sheet-iron sheet-iron stove and pipo In tho market, thrusts a pipe out through his window, searches for high-priced wood In the market, cuts It and builds a fln. If the electric light bulbs burn out, or the fuses blow, or tho wires wear out, one goes to the market for the necessary supplies, gets out one's penknife pen-knife and becomes one's own electrician. elec-trician. It is a great tragedy when shoes or clothing wear out or require repairing. Tailors have no cloth and shoemakers have no leather. Those can bo found only in th; street markets and It requires re-quires many hours to place a pair of shoes and sufficient leather for half-soles half-soles in the hands of a cobbler who will sew them on. The lack of serviceable new cloth In ihe markets has put worn clothing at a premium. It is greedily bought by men and women who have It turned and renovated. Tailors are so busy with this sort of work that it frequently frequent-ly requires seeral weeks to have repairs re-pairs made. Plumbers and t mm i s and carpenters and painters utterly lack supplies. Small contractors can frequently supply sup-ply workmen to make building repairs of minor character, but they are seldom sel-dom able to provide the required materials. ma-terials. This necessitates hours of search through the street stalls scat-i tered along miles of boulevards Tho I capital, organization and confidence ure nccf-M--.il-' in effect ihf assembling' of large stocks arc still lacking. |