Milk in Blocks

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 18, 1913

WE are told that in winter-time in Siberia milk goes to the buyer in a block instead of a quart. The people buy their milk frozen, and for convenience it is allowed to freeze about a stick, which serves as a handle by which to carry it. The milkman leaves one block or two blocks, as the case may be, at the houses of his customers.

The little children of Irkutsk, instead of asking their mothers for a drink of milk, ask for a bite of milk.

In winter the people do not say, “Be careful not to spill the milk,” but, “Be careful not to break the milk.” Broken milk is better than spilled milk, though, because there is opportunity to save the pieces.—The Comrade.