Within the cities separate bedrooms are nearly unknown

Even within the cities separate bedrooms are nearly unknown. The servants sleep on rugs within the kitchen, and their masters and mistresses are lodged in a manner any English artisan, incomes good wages, would regard as insupportable. One of many few actually good-looking homes in Sofia was employed a short while in the past by a pal of mine. The home, which is of the category London auctioneer would describe as a bijou residence, and which is let for an amazing deal greater than a home of the identical class and dimen-sions would command in South Kensington or Bayswater, was constructed, as his personal residence, by one of many wealthiest skilled males within the city. Whereas being proven over the home by the owner, the intending tenant’s consideration was known as to the scale of the principal bed room, which he was begged to watch was so roomy that the owner himself, his spouse, his two kids, and their nurses had been all within the behavior of sleeping in it at one and the identical time. In a group the place so low a level of consolation is taken into account enough by well-to-do townsfolk of fine social place, it’s simple to think about how tough and the way exhausting should be the every day lifetime of the frequent peasants. Thus, having few materials, and no mental needs, they’re essentially dangerous prospects. The necessaries of existence lie inside their very own attain; however as but they haven’t a want for its luxuries. Their every day lives are, to talk the reality, so laborious, so tough, and so penurious, that they even contrive to put by cash. Once they have laid it by, they don’t know of spending it in order to enhance the situations underneath which they dwell. Their one dominant ardour is the starvation for land, and if a peasant sees his manner so as to add an acre or two to his patrimony, he’ll half together with his financial savings for the aim.

Situations of Bulgarian existence

Certainly, the greed of land is without doubt one of the causes that are tending to change the situations of Bulgarian existence. When the Tomaks quitted the nation, their lands had been left vacant. A really massive portion of those vacated lands was purchased up by the peasants within the neighborhood, and, in an effort to full the acquisition cash, they needed to borrow. Having acquired the lands, they discovered they’d not the means to work them, they usually needed to borrow extra. The result’s that a lot of the peasant farmers are these days burdened with loans on which the curiosity runs on the fee of twelve per cent each year; and, in an effort to meet their liabilities, they’re discovering it crucial to extend the yield of their lands. Nonetheless, there may be as but no very common indebtedness, as the good mass of the peasantry dwell nicely inside their means. They’re glad if their crops yield enough to provide meals for themselves and their households. Supposing there may be any surplus left, they’re prepared to promote this surplus, however solely at their very own value; and if that value is above the market charges, they might sooner retailer the grain and let it rot than promote it at what they contemplate to be a sacrifice.