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Show a 1 rww THRIFTY AND I JEAN KHARKOV Lack of wood in the j Ukraine has led French and G rman colonists to build houses of Iliuil bricks held together by straw. Tin - bricks are carefully plastered over with mud. and when dry, the mud Is tinted In water colors. ' One house will be a bright blue, another yellow, the next one pink or green, and the Ullage as a whole makes a colorful picture, l'lots upon which the houses stand are, surrounded by low walls made of the fiimf material, and tinted to corre-1 corre-1 spond with the house. Gardens ar wr. kept and there is an abundance of fruit trees. I ' ' |