During the good Melancholy, citizens from the "Dust Bowl" from the US Southern Plains region tried to insulate their residences from the choking dust storms by utilizing strips of material coated in flourbased glue or paste. These could then be pasted over cracks about window and doorway frames to try and maintain out the dust. City dwellers usually did a little something comparable with newspapers, stuffing them in cracks in window frames in hopes of retaining their frigid tenement apartments a bit warmer towards winter's chill.