. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . y hadentered. As the space between the corridors, which werenot very far apart, was vacant, the boys, when the windowswere open, looked out on the girls immediately opposite tothem, and vice versa. So they laughed and chatted across asthey ate. The little girls, whose hair was close cropped,wore navy-blue serge dresses, and white aprons. In thedormitories each had a cot, with mattress, pillow, sheet, andblanket. The boys had suits of unbleached linen; but theirbeds were rougher, and grouped i
. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . y hadentered. As the space between the corridors, which werenot very far apart, was vacant, the boys, when the windowswere open, looked out on the girls immediately opposite tothem, and vice versa. So they laughed and chatted across asthey ate. The little girls, whose hair was close cropped,wore navy-blue serge dresses, and white aprons. In thedormitories each had a cot, with mattress, pillow, sheet, andblanket. The boys had suits of unbleached linen; but theirbeds were rougher, and grouped in fours, the heads beingtogether in pairs, with a little raised partition between. Thegirls are taught to sew and knit, while the boys learn atrade—bootmaking or carpentry chiefly—in little that time there were some seventy children of both sexesin the institution, of whom the youngest was a foundlingbaby girl. In spite of the obvious advantages of such ahome, it is with the greatest difficulty that the prisonersare prevailed upon to part with their children, though butfor a AMONG THE VOLUNTARY FOLLOWERS. 251 After this we visited the strange settlement of those whohad followed in the prisoners wake—wives, children, loversmore rarely, husbands. The dwellings were primitive to thelast degree, being largely composed of wicker-work. Whenan occupant no longer needs the scanty shelter offered bysuch a home because she can join her liberated mate in the
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