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SLIPPERY SPORT: A JUMP-FOR-HERRINGS COMPETITION
| In many parts of the world a popular amusement of young folks is to attempt to take a bite out of a suspended apple without touching it with the hands. Danzig boys get uproarious fun out of this much more difficult feat — springing on skates from the ice and snatching a herring from a string by catching it between the teeth |
WINTER SNOWS AMONG THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS
| During the cold weather the Ruthenians wear sheepskins with long sleeves, and should a family not have sufficient means to provide a winter sheepskin for each member, the father's coat becomes common property, the wife and children wearing it in turns when the head of the house is at home. In the mountains the thermometer sometimes registers sixty degrees of frost, Fahrenheit, and unprotected ears and fingers are not infrequently sacrificed to frostbite |