The temperature is not only tolerable, but enjoyable, providing, of course, that the right clothing is worn, that the house is equally warmed, and that reasonable precautions are taken. [Illustration: PLOUGHING AND HARVESTING.] As to houses, an indispensable institution of Canadian home life is the heat-raiser—the stove apparatus in the basement which supplies the steam-pipes carried through every room and also through every passage in the house. The heat-raiser has been carried to the last pitch of perfection to meet the needs of the Canadian winter. As a Montreal resident said to me, it would not do to go out of a room heated to 60 or 70 degs. into a passage where the temperature was below zero. It is this equal heating that prevents Canadians feeling cold in their homes, and Canadians coming to this country always complain of the coldness of our houses, and especially of the coldness of unheated bedrooms. English visitors to Canada, on the other hand, always complain that the houses are too hot, and still more that the railway trains, which are heated in the same fashion, are too hot. My own experience of railway travelling in Canada, of many nights spent sleeping in Pullman cars, confirms the testimony of English travellers. The temperature at times in the railway trains is almost unbearable, and it was a delight when the train stopped for five or ten minutes to alight on platforms sprinkled with snow and to breathe the clear crisp air. I have no doubt that the train-heating is as necessary as the house-heating having regard to the conditions. Canadians adapt themselves to the conditions, and what is abnormal to us becomes normal to them. The English visitor to Canada misses the open grate; the Canadian, and especially the Canadian housewife, testifies that the absence of the open grate is the greatest boon to the Canadian householder. It means cleanliness, saving of trouble, doing away with alternations of temperature which mean colds and general _malaise_. The cooking arrangements of Canadian home life are simplified, as are the heating arrangements, and in view of the difficulty—which is practically an impossibility—of obtaining domestic servants it is necessary to adopt every kind of labour-saving appliance on the market. The heating and cooking apparatus of Canadian homes is due mostly to the inventiveness of American manufacturers. Generally speaking Canadian home conditions are, as the Scots would say, “homologated” to the conditions prevailing on the American side of the border.