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change their clothes. When a new and commodious 

 lodging-house was built for the workmen of a well-con- 

 ducted factory at Alexandrofski, near St. Petersburg, 

 the workmen, after examining it, sent a deputation to 

 the manager, who was my informant, asking him what 



WORKMEN AT DINNER. 



additional wages he meant to give if they went to his 

 new house ! 



But I have been given to understand that the habits of 

 even the middle and higher classes of society in Moscow 

 and St. Petersburg, with some exceptions, are said t& 



