[at-l] Cold Questions

[saunterer@jimbullard.org (saunterer@jimbullard.org)]

At 09:19 PM 1/5/02 -0500, David wrote:
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>A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I read a story about a 
>Russian anthropological discovery of a group of people who lived 
>practically naked somewhere in Siberia, showing an impervious attitude to 
>cold weather which tended to frighten the more civilized anthropologist . 
>. . The point of the essay or article or whatever had to do with the 
>ability of the human body to deal with extreme cold with "training" . . .

This reminded me of a tale my wife's grandfather was fond of telling.  The 
area I live in was one of the last in the state to be settled by white 
folks so when I was younger the old timers could still remember Native 
Americans living in the traditional way.  He told of being in a country 
store where the white men were huddled around the wood stove on a cold day 
when one of the local natives came in dressed only on light buckskins.  A 
white man got up the nerve to ask him how come he wasn't cold in such light 
attire.  The Native responded with a question of his own "Is your face 
cold?".  "No" admitted the white man.  "Well, I have face all over" said 
the Native.

sAunTerer


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