Life in Manitoba

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 138, 7 May 1885, Page 3

Life in M anitoba

•* Silrer Ben," writing to tho Auckland Herald, aays : — I r have lately been listening 'to* true itory from a woman who has wintered in this cold "region, and (think it may interest your readers to bear' 4 iew . .ifrpzen! fafcts. She says that one portion of the' winter is so cold that the snow is ten feet deep from' Novehifer to ApriL Mocassins are used instead of shoes, drawn over many pairs of • stockings. As the cold increases, people become frozen without knowing it. Portions of their' bodies freezie, and there Is no attendant pain, and you only discover when parts of your face are frozen by looking in the glass. The part becomes perfectly brittle 1 , and breaks 1 off. A man, having lusWar frozen, put up his hiand to feelit, wh«& it broke ; off; and- fell on his plate. . A dog hod both his-ears broken off crisply, when frczetu Of. course, there ls'adntnce of jronthawingout, provided you do not fall to pieces beforehand. :. '""People lose their legs and arnisiu this way,' and no moderate degree of heat will thaw' you Out. Iv this . sublime region the mustard freezes iii die potj and the bread becomes hard as a rock between meals, even though, fire burns in the grata*. I should l^ce to put a few women I know in Manitoba for a spell, to see if their tongues would freeze and break off. What a fine place for tried husbands. . '