The Family Oven In Greece

On Inquiry I founii that there was not. as a rule, in Greeoe, as there is in New England. any regular day for baking Washing and baking take place wheu these are needed. The cooking is done, in many lust anees, out of doors tminediately ouïsido of tbe house, close to the corner, you often see the family o?en It is like a buge hen 's egg, made of baked clay, witb the narrow end pointing upward tn tbe side is a large round aper ture, which is the door, and at the apex is a stoall vent for the escape of the Thla is closed by a stoue as soon as the cooking is done A large mirnher of tbe houses consisted of four waJls of Btone. covered with a flat roof overspread with earth or grassy turf Where there ■was any escape for the smoke, it was a rude cbimney consisting of four small piles of stoae, which supported a flat slab, to prevent the wind of heaven from interferlng with the smoke. But 1 found ín many instances in Megara, and elsewhere in Ureece, that the smoke was allowed the freedom of the house, and, where it did not craep out unwilltngly through s"me doubtful hole in the roof, it generally occupied itself with blackening the rafters or üiducing a certain lachrymose condition f the eyes, which was extremely painful. Owing to the steepness of the hill, the wall which we passed tn the rear of the house was often not more than a few feet