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A weather house is a Folk Art device in the shape of a small German or Alpine Chalet that indicates the Weather . A typical weather house has two doors and two Automata , side by side. The left side has a girl or woman, the right side a boy or man. The female figure comes out of the house when the weather is sunny and dry, while the male comes out to indicate Rain . In fact, a weather house functions as a Weather houses are associated in the popular mind with Germany or Switzerland , and are often decorated in the style of a Cuckoo Clock . Many weather houses also bear a small Thermometer on the part between the two doors that conceals the gut suspension, and many also contain a Piggy Bank . CULTURAL INFLUENCE A one-act English comic opera called '' Weather Or No '', about the male and female figures in a weather house falling in love, became popular when it was played as a companion piece to '' The Mikado '' in 1896-97. REFERENCES |
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