Show snow houses in the arctic A snow house la is the most adaptable ot of dwellings if it gets too warm either for or th the comfort of the inhabitants or because the roof begins to thaw you can lower the temperature by enlarging the ventilating hole with your knife it if it gets too cold you yau make the hole smaller by stuffing a mitten into it it if the roof begins to thaw because it Is made of blocks that are too thick you send a man ann out with a long knife or machete and lie thins them down until the frost without neutralizes the heat from froin within red nd the thawing stops but it if yu you trave bave made your root roof too thin aud and hoarfrost hoar boar frost begins to form from your breath and from the steam that rises from rom 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 excess he told harpers magazine |