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Show Comfort In I'rln.allv. Dwellings. Sod houses, or, aa thoy are locally tormed, "soddles," are now being built In large numbers In enntorn Colorado. They are made of oblong'pleces of sod cut from the pralrlo, about elghtoen Inches In length, seven Inches broad, and from J to 4 Inches thick. No foundation Is required, the aodi belug simply laid on the prairie, and up goes the structure. "Soddles" ara coo lu summer and warm In winter, aud when the snow-laden wind Is wblstllni without a coxy md bouie, In whlcb there Is a good corncob Are, la not M he despised. Chicago Journal. ' |