Show snow houses in the arctic A snow house Is the most adaptable of dwellings it I 1 it gets too warm either for the comfort of the inhabitants or because the root roof begins to thaw you can lower the temperature by enlarging the ventilating hole with your knife it if it gets too cold you make fhe the bole smaller by stuffing a mitten into it if the root 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 neutralize neutralizes the beat from within and the thawing stops but if you have bave made your root roof too thin and boar frost begins to form from your breath and from the steam that rosei from the cooking then a man goes out with a shovel instead of a knife and throws a little soft snow on the roof to blanket it from the excessive cold harpers magazine |