Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — The Open Window. [ARTICLE]

The Open Window.

Mr. Walter Winans, writing In the Saturday Review on the open window, says: The Russian peasants, in whose huts I have lived in very severe winters, seal up the windows hermetically during the whole winter (double windows), and they have warm water to wash in, and do nqt break the ice to wash as people fond of open windows have to do. In Petrograd some years ago twelve Englishmen started a bathing society to break holes in the ice of the Neva and have a cold plunge every morning. Before the spring they were all dead, and I have never heard of a case of a foreigner (the Russians, of course, never do so) who lived through a Russian winter and slept with his bedroom window open.