Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1920 — LAUGHS AT GREENLAND COLD [ARTICLE]

LAUGHS AT GREENLAND COLD

■ln Ais Primitive Abode, Eskimo Dwells in Comfort Through the Monot- - — onous Arctic Winter." The Eskimo of Greenland, no matter what his station in life may be, always has both a summer and winter home. The wlntef house is described by Roger Pocock in the Wide World Magazine as being a dugoift with an upper structure built of turf and beams of driftwood. It has but one window, as winter in Greenland occurs during the four-month-long arctic night. Entrance to the one large room of which the house consists is gained through a long tunnel about five feet in height, in which the dogs live. In the rear of the living room is a raised dais" on which the entire family sleep, and in the front part stands the stove. This stove consists of a hollow stone filled with seal oil In which burns a rag wick, whibh lights and heats the house and cooks the meals.