The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-14

| How Comfort Is Secured Whom the Tenn.
peraturc Tor Weeks is Below Zero.
Careful preparations for the cold season
begins about the first of November. Every
| tolerably well-built house is provided with
duplicate set of windows, which lie in the
cellar from April to November and are then
hung outside the regular windows, SO as to
leave few inches of dir space between. An
aperture in the sash closed by Stat is pro-
vided for ventilating purposes or, better
still, one of the panes is made to open on
| hinges. Storm doors are hung, and the
weathor-strip man does thriving business.
All cracks and crannies through which the
searching north wind might find its way are
stopped up. Great quantities of coal are
put into the cellars. Pennsylvania anthra-
cite is the fayorite domestic fuel and as it
costs from nine to ten dollars o ton and you
burn twice as much of it as you would in
Philadelphia or New York. the expense Of
warming house is formidable item in tho
domestic budget. Ohio block coal Is burned
in CRATES, and also the inferior bituminous
coal from Iowa, and considerable hard wood
is used, but FOR the furnace and the big
self-feeding stove there is nothing like an
thracite. Stoves, by the way, are of enor-
nous size, reaching up nearly to the coil
ings. Everything points to severe strug
gle with the frost. Human ingenuity gets
the better of the struggle, however, and ii
is possible to live here with as much COM
fort during the cold season as in any city in
the East. Indeed, have found that tho
places where one suffers most in the winter
are in ATTITUDES like that ofSouth Carolina,
where no reasonable preparations are made
for winter.
The reader may ask, What do the poo
pie out on tho bleak prairies in the little
claim shanties do to make existence toler.
able p, The common protection against the
piercing winds is the tarred building paper,
which, in well-constructed houses, is nailed
upon the studding inside of the weather.
boarding. Cheap shanties are covered on
the outside with this paper fastened on in
long sheets by narrow cleats of wood nailed
over the joints. A building so encased has
an ugly look, but it is blizzard-proof. The
| Will WILLS, uOWofcI, hIo u pOOE Qc-
fence against the still cold, and many set
tiers surround their dwellings, with thick
ernbankments Of turf reaching up TO the
caves and embrasured for the windows and
doors. A house so prepared is almost az
warm as a cellar. Barns are frequently pro-
tected in the same way ON the northern
side, or big straw-stack Is thrown up as q
wind-break. In eastern Dakota good deal
of anthracite is burned, dear as it is, and it
costs about $15 ton. Hard wood, hauled
on the railroad from the Minnesota forests,
Is worth from Sc 10 SO per cord.
| 1t is O common mistake in the East to
suppose that this is peculiarly snowy
| country. The snowfall here is not nearly
as great as in Pennsylvania and the further
| you go west the lighter ii is. The railroads
are never INSTRUCTED by storms of moist
snow that packs as it falls. All they have
to contend with is the dry snow driven by
the wind into the cuts. Every cut, even if
only two feet deep, must be protected by a
now-fence on the northern side. Tho snow
is SO dry that it gets no hold on the ground
and is swirled about at the sport of the wind
like dust. People never carry umbrellas
bore when ii SHOWS. for the fine, hard, white
| PARTICLES do not even damage the ladies'
bonnets.-St Paul Letter TO PHILADELPHIA
| Times