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Show Snow Houses In the Arctic A snow house is the most adaptable adapta-ble of dwellings. If it gets too warm either for the comfort of the Inhabitants Inhabi-tants or because the roof begins to thaw, you can lower the temperature by enlarging the ventilating hole with your knife. If It gets too cold, you make the hole smaller by stuffing a mitten into it. If the roof begins to thaw because It Is made of blocks that are too thick, you send a man out with a long knife or machete, and he thins them down until the frost without with-out neutralizes the heat from within, nd the thawing stops. But if you have made your roof too thin, and hoar-frost begins to form from your breath and from the steam that rises from the cooking, then a man goes out with a shovel, Instead of a knife, tnd throws a little soft snow on the roof, to blanket it from the excessive told. Harper's Magazine. |