The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-30
A Real summer Hotel.

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Of the days I spent in exquisite COOL
ness and comfort in the delightful Cuban
houses, there was none when / did not
reflect how strange thing it is that our
summer hotels and summer cottages in
this country are not built upon the
tropical plan. The more turned the
question of the practicability of the mat
ter over in my mind the less reason /
could see why, with such modes before
us, we continue to build summer dwell
lings upon the same plan as our city
winterhouses.
The most delightful lodgings / ever in
habited were in a hotel in Mantanzas.
My bedroom had floor of tiling at
least fifteen and perhaps twenty feet be-
low the ceiling. The door was cut in
two, width-wise, so that the top could be
shut to keep the sun out, or the bottom
could be shut to keep intruders out
while the open top let in the air; or q
curtain could be drawn across the lower
half whel- wished to read or write, or
take comfort in my shirtsleeves, with
privacy and GOODNESS combined.
A little window high in the opposite
wall provided for the circulation of air.
But when the door was wholly open,
saw beyond the little covered gallery
that led to all the rooms around a central
court, tropic garden at my feet and the
clear sky overhead, for the court was
open to the sky, and was planted with
fruit trees and flowers in great boxes on
flooring of marble mosaic. Every
room in the two-story hotel opens on
this court and has window or door
through the outer wall. The guests sit
in the dining-room looking out upon the
smiling park across the street or back
into the little garden in the heart of the
house. The kitchen, the baths, the
closets and the sleeping rooms Of the
help are on the farther side of this court,
to all intents and purposes in separate
building. The front of the hotel on the
ground floor is series of doors and win
dows SO big and close together that when
all are open the people of the house en-
Joy all the advantages of the open air
without suffering from the sum- If the
air is moving in Mantanzas it moves
through that hotel.
The Early Riser Nuisance.
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remember many years ago reading a
most sensible article in an English paper
on early rising. 1t set down early rising
as the bane of modern civilization.
Really, believe it is right. The gentle
man over me is not newspaper man.
He goes to bed early and very early he
begins to move about. In the con-
sciousness of virtuous industry he
despises all who do not get up as early
as he does. Sometimes he sings, but
there is always heartiness and cheer
fulness about his dressing in tho morn
ing which keeps all below him awake
AS positive fact the early riser is a
nuisance. In these days when life only
begins after dinner, the man who rises
with the lark breaks up everything. He
begins to yawn during dinner. He goes
to sleep and snores Immediately after.
He is demonstrated with, and gives as aH
excuse that he gets up at daylight. He
gets up at daylight, he wakes up all the
house, he is merry when people are en-
joying their best sleep, and he simply
inficts upon himself, with the most vir.
tuous and praiseworthy intent, annoy
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