New-York tribune., 1867-04-30
CHEAP HOMES FOR THE SUMNER.

Everybody'5 eyes arc already turned country ward
impatIently out of the SHOWS of this dreary Spring.
so that few practical words hints TO those who
arc able TO leave town for the Summer. and helps to
those who fear they are not able, may be welcome if
only as cheerful prophecy, like the first martins
chrp, which tells us that she left warm weather
hurTyng UP, fast behind. We take it for granted
that fashion has really very little to do with the
yearly increasing migration from tho towns TO tho
country; but the nation grows in years, 1t grows
in common sense, and u just knowledge OF the re-
duisites for health of soul and body Sneers at the
snobbishness of the CUSTOM like all stale things have
the undeT-paid ward-teacher, or the jew clothes
dealers wife, should want to give her pale little folks
q breath of country air. and practical knowledge OF
grass which may be tr0d on, and creeks where fish
can he had unweighed and unpaid for beside the de-
lights of barns. and hens, and cowyards as that inc
descendant of One'Of the Van Blanks should 1ind
herself growing better woman in her house by the
sea, OF in the cloudy White Mountains.
Every year shows 9 greater effort among the more
cultivated classes to find Summer retreats apart from
the frequent routes; desire (which is surely the
hint of as pure and religious instinct any meat
less Lent to shake off work and forms; to go apart
to "try the earth il it be in time" and find what
secrets if any old mother Nature has to tell them IN
this true Sabbath day of the year. by those VINO
have abundance of money and leisure, III their
arrangements begun in time, expeditions can
readily he made to the rocky islands along the nane
coast or up Lake Superior as tat as VIII If th
Mississippi. dreamy Indian haunted pilgrimage
through unbroken forest, or agate-strewed shores,
with air about them as rarifiod and brilliant as
that of the Jungfrau
Hunting parties to the far West have become COM
mon lately; but Just ~ primitive wilderness may
bc found in the cheat country of West Virginia. with
trout-flshng and bear, dear, and fox hunting; the
same may be said of the Adirondack region with
wolves added as an additional relish.
The class, however who find 1t tough work 10 live
at all anywhere without any chance of fresh fields or
fresh vegetable i'll the year these for whom our
hints are meant especially. For the sum which q
family of four five members would pay Tor rent
during the Summer months in Newly FORK or Brooklyn
they can buy ground and build n cottage on the sea
coast of New-Jersey which would afford them home
always during the hot weather. An acre OF land on
the edge of one of the intcrmnable pine forests III
Monmouth Ocean. or Burlington Counties, in view
of the sea- can be had for from SIS to S5 comfOta,
bic weatheT-bOarded house can be butt for 5000 ana
the furniture necessary need not cost more than slJO
If all the provisions bought the cost is about one
fourth that of living in New York; but the coast
abounds in delicious fish, byalves, and crabs, and
marshes in snipe and quails The beach is the Same
for bathing purposes at many points half days dis-
tauce from New -lOEk-as at Long Branch, and lar
finer at Atlantic City. IL one two families JOIN,
they can be sure of congenia society and girls and
bows can wear out their old clothes in unlimited
cr0quet cricket Grabbing. aud swimming
As cheap houses may be secured III the INLAND hlll
counties of NewIOrk, but the taxes are almost
nominal in New-.Iersey, and beside where there are
children, We strongly recommend the first plan