The food is abundant and delicious, whether cooked in the house or by the guides in the woods. Sheets are flannel or cotton as preferred. It is true that the buildings are of the most primitive, and the furnishings, too. The huge fire, lighted early every morning by one of the guides in each guest house, keeps the main part fairly warm but the temperature of one of the bathrooms on a cold morning is scarcely welcoming. After coming in from walking or shooting or fishing, if it is warm they swim in the pool or have their guides bring them hot water for a bath.
Women change into house gowns of some sort.
Men put on flannel trousers, soft shirts, and flannel or serge sack coats. In the evening, if it is a beautiful night, every one sits on steamer chairs wrapt in rugs around the big fire built out doors in front of a sort of penthouse or windbreak. Or if it is stormy, they sit in front of a fire, almost as big, in the living-room. Sometimes younger ones pop corn or roast chestnuts, or perhaps make taffy. Perhaps some one tells a story, or some one plays and everyone sings.