A correspondent of Thursday's Times, who signs himself " C.
R. B.," makes a timely suggestion to the poor who keenly feel the cold just now, and who cannot afford additional blankets. It is that they should sleep with a Times' supplement or two spread beneath the quilt,—even a penny paper would do, if it did not tear so easily,—the paper acting as a very powerful non-con- ductor of heat. We happen to know that the expedient is effectual enough,—indeed, that in less cold weather than we have lately had the complaint of it is that it is too effectual, that the paper blanket is oppressively hot. The crinkling sound would be annoying for a time ; but a halfpenny blanket is too cheap to carp at on grounds like these. It is quite conceivable that the newspaper may yet become more popular as a sheet to prevent the diffusion of warmth, than as a sheet to promote the diffusion of knowledge.
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