The women are prepared by the attendants for entering the pool, the curious children looking on.

In the pool they are ducked over their heads the correct number of times.

The water in the pool has been standing for days; it does not look nor smell fresh.

But we had no germs in Polotzk, so no harm came of it, any more than of the pails used promiscuously by feminine Polotzk.

If any were so dainty as to have second thoughts about the use of the common bath, they could enjoy, for a fee of twenty-five kopecks, a private bathtub in another part of the building.