. 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 st unknownamong Russian ladies. If the Emperor would issue a decree requiring thehouses of the Emjure to be properly ventilated, he would confer a blessingon his faithful subjects, and save or prolong thousands of lives. The peasants sometimes use their stoves for baths, said the Doctor,to the great surprise of his youthful auditors. How is that possible? one of them asked. Do they fill the stovewith water the same as they would a bath-tub
. 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 st unknownamong Russian ladies. If the Emperor would issue a decree requiring thehouses of the Emjure to be properly ventilated, he would confer a blessingon his faithful subjects, and save or prolong thousands of lives. The peasants sometimes use their stoves for baths, said the Doctor,to the great surprise of his youthful auditors. How is that possible? one of them asked. Do they fill the stovewith water the same as they would a bath-tub ? Kot exactly, the Doctor answered, smilingly. You know thecharacter of the Russian bath as we find it in I^ew York and other Amer-ican cities ? Certainly, was the reply. It is a room filled with steam, and with Ji)6 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. a series of benches on which you lie and are heated, tlie highest bench be-ing liottest of all. The Russian bath of the best class here, said Doctor Bronson, isarranged in the same way. The more primitive bath is simply a roomwith benches, and a fire on a pile of hot stones. Water is thrown over. Lc_;SiM-8ARf^l- A BATH IN THE EAST. the stones and converted into steam, and the finishing touch is to mountto the topmost bench while an attendant deluges the stones with waterand raises a cloud that threatens to scald you. The most profuse perspira-tion is the result, and the bath is no doubt a great sanitary institution. THE RUSSIAN BATH. 207 The Turkish bath is mneh like the Russian, hot, dry air taking tlie phiceof steam. Taken properly, the Russian bath has no bad effects, and is beneficialin rheumatism, gout, certain forms of neuralgia, and several other is a wonderful restorative when you have been shaken up in carriageson Russian roads, and an excellent thing after a journey of any good Russian considers it his duty to bathe once a week, but hedoes not always adhere to the rule. In every village ther
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