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Show MAY COOL HOMES IN SUMMER Hungarian Engineer Hat Oesigced evaporation Scheme to rtenulate Temperature. 1 AmerkniiH may soon be living In . "lee houses." The houses will not be the kind In which Ice Is stored, but n new type of dwelling designed by Leopold Pol-Ink, Pol-Ink, mi engineer nnd constructor of Itmlapcst, Hungury. He Is comem-plutlng comem-plutlng building a hous" iminufuelur i lug plunt lu Philadelphia so thai the public will have a place to escape the sweltering heat without trckl.lns Klmrcwuril or northward. Mr. Polluk said Unit the houses will Iw mnde of Infusorial euith and covered cov-ered with porous bricks. In appear-mice appear-mice they will be xlmllar to those! used by the unlives of South America, who use "monkey Jugs," or water hot-, ties iniide of pottery, to cool their homes. The South American natives place in each comer of a room u wuter Jug, nnd In a few moments the room Is cooled by oHiporutlon. Mr. Polluk does not go Into detail about his new plan, but stutes Hint he enn regulate the cooling of a bouse lu summer lu a similar maimer as (hut of heutlug Hie Mime building In winter. He Mild be can make u home as cool as an Ire tellur on the hnttexi tl.iy In the year nt a cost of iipprovliuntely in rents a day. Phllmlelphlti Public ledger. |