Finally, many critics are of opinion that a wooden house would not be warm enough for the peculiar cold of Shanghai and its neighbourhood; and the above correspondent, who is well acquainted with the sectional house i, Cansda, says that "these cusses, unless really first class and heated from the basement by a good farnace—when they would! not be very cheap—do not keep ext the cold.".To this we reply that neither docs the jerry-built brick and plaster structure of Shanghai keep out the cold, when only warmed by the primitive and ruinously extravagant fireplace of Home tradition, If, Lowever, one is prepared to bring one's house from overseas, why not bring one's or the plan of it—from Russia? Thy massive Russian peck, with its ramifications of flues, is just as suitable to the wooden hut as to the solid stone pile, and only costs the price of a omrtload of bricks. Once inj position, and with a bucketful of coal stuffed into its capacious maw, the Russian stove may be relied upon to inradiate a gratifying and corner Penetrating warmth for the! next twenty-four hours. There should be no diffi-in finding in Shanghai several Russian _pechniks—stove builders—who could speedily initiate the!
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