Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Getting Used to the Cold. [ARTICLE]

Getting Used to the Cold.

How much usage will do in toughening the human body is well ihown by some facts about the natives ot Siberia, as recorded by the author of “Reindeer, Dogs and Snowshoes." Cold, he says, seemed to have no effect upon them. Frequently, he says, when we could not expose our ears for two minutes without having them frozen, the natives would go for an hour at a time with their hoods thrown back from their heads; and when it required constant watohfulness to keep our noses from freezing they did not appear to notice the temperature at all. One morning in January I itood in perfect amazement at their disregard of the low temperature. They worked for at least half an hour with bare hands, packing up the tent and utensils, handling the packages and lashing them together with icy seal thongs, without experiencing the least apparent inconvenience, while I partly froze my fingers striking a light for my pipe with a flint and steel, the whole operation taking not more than three minutes.