The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-01

ESKIMO BABY LEE,

When baby Eskimo's mother makes the
hood for her reindeer suit, she stretches il
into long sack or bag, that hangs down
behind and is supported by her shoulders,
and this bag of RENDERS skin is his cradle
and home, where he lives until he knows
how to walk, when he gets his own first suit
of clothing.
This. however, Is while the baby Eskimo
is out of doors, or his mother is making a
social visit. When at his home, in order
not to trouble his mother while she is sew
ing or cooking or doing such other work,
the little baby is allowed to roll around al
most without clothing, among the reindeer
skins that make the bed, where it anuses
itself with anything IL can lay its hands on,
from hatchet to snow stick
You doubtless think little Boreas should
have nice time rolling around to his hearts
content on the soft, warm reindeer skins
but when I tell you more about his little
home, You may not then think SO. For his
winter home Is built OF snow.
But won't the snow melt and the house
tumble in 7" you win ask. OF course it
will, If you get it warmer than just the cold
ness at which water freezes but during
the greater part of the year it is so cold that
the snow will not melt, even when the Eski-
mo burn fires in their stone lamps inside
these snow houses SO by closely regulating
the amount of the fire, they can just keep
the snow from melting. In short, it must
always be cold enough in their home to
freeze.
So you can sec that the little Eskimo can
Aot have such q very nice time, and you
can't see how in the world he can be almost
naked nearly all day long when it is so cold.
But such Is the fact.
Yet, in spite of all this, the little fellow
really enjoys himself. He gets used to the
cold, and has great tan frolicking around
on the reindeer skins and playing with his
toys and when have told YOU some other
stories about the cold these little folks can
endure, you can understand how they can
enjoy themselves in the snow hu.s, or ig-
loos, as they call them, when it ia only
little colder than freezing.
At times the fire will get too warm in the
bhON iioh5Os athA ttiVh btic GptlAhR Will GULL
mence melting, for you all, perhaps, have
learned at school that when a room becomes
warmed it is warmer at the ceiling and cool
err near the floor. So with the hut of snow
it commences melting at the top because it
is warmer there, and when two or three
drops of cold water have fallen ON the
babys shoulders, his father or mother finds
that it is getting too warm, and cuts down
the fire.
When the water commences dropping,
the mother will often take a SNOWFALL from
the floor, where it is colder than freezing,
and stick it against the point where tho
water is dipping. There it freezes fast and
soaks up the water just like a sponge until
it becomes fun and then she removes il
and puts on another. as soon as it COM
mences to drip again Sometimes she will
forget to remove it, aud when it gets soak
ed and heavy with water and warm enough
to lose its freezing hold, down it comes
perhaps right on the baby's bare back,
where it fiattens out like slushy psncske
--or into his face, az it once served me-
Children of the Cod, /" IN 50. NiAtebas.