. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across nd butter, fried in butter, and eatenwith butter-sauce. Butter and other fatty foods are in order through theweek; and from a sanitary point of view this great consumption of grease,followed by seven weeks of fasting, leads to frightful results. Statisticsshow that the mortality rate is largely in-creased at this time of the year, and certainlyit is not to be wondered at. Tiicli and pooralike give themselves up to butter, and theonly differ
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across nd butter, fried in butter, and eatenwith butter-sauce. Butter and other fatty foods are in order through theweek; and from a sanitary point of view this great consumption of grease,followed by seven weeks of fasting, leads to frightful results. Statisticsshow that the mortality rate is largely in-creased at this time of the year, and certainlyit is not to be wondered at. Tiicli and pooralike give themselves up to butter, and theonly difference is that the rich have the best(puilities of the article, and sometimes a greater(juantity. The rich people sometimes have hlinttiparties during the festive season. I once at-tended one of these affairs at the invitation ofa Russian friend. When we met in the par-lors I was surprised that so few were present,as I had dined there before and knew he couldaccon)modate twice the number. But I saw the reason Mlien the word was given that the pancakes were ready andour host led the way. We were not taken to the dining-room but to the kitchen, and then. THE EASTER KISS—IN THE FAMILY. KISSING AT EASTER. 201
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