In railway trains elsewhere the traveller who likes ventilation often encounters folk' who have no use for it, but in most parts of the world" provision is made for it. The Russians not only do not be: Jieve in it, but they make almost provision for it, Like most races that live in rigorous climates Ghey worship heat and they see no sense in generating it and then deliberately releasing it into the frosty void. "When winter comes the double windows are screwed on, the heavy doors are reinforced by outer doors of bare planks covers ed with felt and every crack that can be found is either puttied up or stuffed with cotton wool. Then the fires are stoked until the interior temperature. is "above 80, and it is kept there unfit Spring.
In the railways it is the same, for in the sleeping' compartments here seems. to. be 0's revision whatever for air and the none Russian who fe accustomed to sleep with windows open in nncomtorte able in his berth under anything heavier than a sheet; while the Atmosphere ina four-berth come partment in which all the travellers have smoked heavily all evening. and. at odd. intervals during the rit is inthe morning Hike. th rin" of wet old clothes "drying before a hot fire. On the writer's first morning on this line he awoke at dawn with much the feeling of tone who had been inhaling carbon monoxide from an open stove all night, "dressed hurriedly in the sanctity. of his berth and escaped {nto the corridor, where little seats fare provided for refugees, leaving. the elderly Chinese lady' still open mouthed in heavy slumber to enjoy whatever oxygen was left in. that lethal chamber. finished making up the berth, as much as to say: "You think you're smart; but now let's ste you try to wet into thut!* There is nota about all pany he a8 comienot unlike The tickets to be sold without reference sex, see ur degree and i is left, to the porter to gort out couples in first class, and quartettes in second close, until the ear is too fall to permit of further discrimination, As an initial experience the writer "row an elderly Chinese lady who was already comfortably tucked in the lower berth ax room mate, but she was anything but disconcerted for she chatted brightly and pasted up a cigarette from below while the writer was getting out of an upper layer of clothes and_ then snored placidly, softly but without intermission, from the moment that. the light was switched off, Smoking in bed, by the way, ig no sin on the other sede of Chang-chun. 'The railway in fact encourage it by setting sh tray into the car wall fat the. head and foot of every berth, upper and lower. In fact there' is no place that the writer has explored in North Manchuria where smoking is not permitted or where the Russians may not ae, Oe eta on the line that are owned by the International Sleeping Car Company are divided in half by a glass sri, anil above the door a sign reading: "For lo on the other side So Smokers; but always as blue fon one side ay it is on the other and the tables in both compart ments are equally well furnished with ash trays and match stands. 'A mining engineer once told the writer that he hod never been in church since boyhood except, Mexico where cigarette smoking was permitted during services. The writer consistently forgot whenever opportunity offered to inquire into
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