fasten a five-eighths-inch wide strip of paper along and over the scalloped top edge of the four sides of the building, using strong paste or glue for the purpose ([Fig. 310]); be sure that the strip is on even and firm; then let it dry. Paint the entire flat roof and flat top surface of the scallops green, using the same paint selected for the door-arch. Oil paint is best. Be careful not to spatter green on the white and gold cupolas.
When finished, place your little cathedral up high on a level with your eyes, turn it until you have the view which is given in [Fig. 299], and you can very easily imagine just how the real Cathedral of the Assumption appears.
Thousands of girls, boys, and grown-up men and women in freezing, snowy Russia,
Fig. [311].—Dress a doll like a Russian.
Sleep On Their Stoves
every night during the long winter months. How strange it would seem to be away up on top of a great warm stove, built of brick and nearly as high as the ceiling! The Russians do not bother about making the bed, or rather the stove, for they have no sheets, blankets, or bedspreads. When it is time to retire, the inmates climb up on top of the great whitewashed stove and sleep just as they are, in the clothing they wear during the day.
Fig. [312].—Half of cap.