Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-02-18

How PARIS CoMBATs CoLD.-A severe
winter tells while it lasts with keener fore, in
Paris than in NtW York. Hero VIC are not, as
q rule, prepared for inclemont weather. The
houses aro neither made to givo shade from
herco heat in summer nor to protect against tho
bitter cold which north winds invariably bring
with thcm, no matter in what season they may
blow. suppose that ono of the reasons why
architects have, in this city, taken 20 thought
to provide tor tho rapid variation of tempcra-
turo Is that. whenever things como to tho worst
10 France, they usually mend. This law ap-
Plies equally to politics, manners and things
climatic. We arc obliged 10 seek. when the
strain on our philosophy or powers of endurance
Is severe, mako shift remedies which generally
tldo Us over the nauvais quart d'heuro pleas
antIy enough. The poor seamstress has gen.
orally rolled up In flannel hot fat iron which
sho warns on portable petroleum cookiog
apparatus end uscs as a footstoo during the
long hours when she is engaged with her needle
and thread. On tho same stove her bouillon
gras SINNERS tho whole day long, to provide in
tho cVering q succulent and scasonabie meal.
She prctects in going out, her feet from the
suow AID frost by wooen stockings, coarse
haunel boots and wooden shoes, into which be-
tore putting them on she hiss slipped pair of
cork soles. The politics bourgeois fortfy them.
selves in their domieiIes against cold. as the
garrison ot bclcaguerod fort would take pre-
cautions against tho iusideous, eruol and
ever watchful enemy. Every door and
window arc calked up with bourrolet,
|. C. tube OF calico stuffed with tow and nailed
along oriticas above, below, down straight, aud,
IN short, wherever the sind is 10 tho habit of
penetrating. Hot ashes ore piled up at the
backs Of fro places. Closed stoves are never
uss6 in Paris unless in omnibus Offices, the ante
rooms Of private houses and in the lodgings Of
poor people, Rho do 81! ttoir cooking and IRON
ing IN the single sitting room. a clcsnd stove
Is q con'cssion Of poverty. Tho calorifere,
which hests the whole house, is very rare. 10
new and very expensive houses, lot ia fats,
there is opHatalus for warming entrance hall
a11 common stalr'i cad in suoh weather as that
W;noil 1ow nTesa!'s and sUsponis the general
lie OF tho city, ther are q grest boon. But,
should sag Chat there a1o fully % per cent. OF
far!S:ai. aonScs which sro Without heating
stages St this kind ie The basement. The c.
cnpaht 0: c.ch Hal has TO resist as we'll rs hu
oan tho atrcan o. freezing air that forces ita
raS iFo;a tina c0rlmOu stairs into tho different
Hats. AZ have Seld, hot ashas Gre seduousl7
sc"'ui1%"'. hhu EleC M at the backs ct The
h72 tiaoaf EmGl!3an families here aro fond Of
hh?iGG ~ t'leir sitting reoras, gratos, ia which
s2Io CO 55 burned. Hho Frerch prefer tho
Oh! i3sh'oaad hearth, with two iro1 bars running
from back to ironr. AID faced with dcg's heads
across which blocks OF wood arc laid. The
hEns:'wood IL placed underneath, and on the
applic ''lon OF = lighted pstoh thoro is 10
mnincni b!azi.ig ctackling Hrc, the warmth OF
:s!'iei, tho ssh heap behind prclongs.- Ger.
~. !, Tribune.