Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-07
CHEAP SUMMERING.
HOW TO MAKE A LITTLE MONEY GO A
GREAT WAY AT THE SEASIDE.
A Bright Woman Who Tells All About 1t
and is Going Again This Sea-
son-Practical Hints.

number OF the New 1ork Star, Will apply
in all respects to trip to Pacific Grove
The expense of such an outing need not be
any greater here than at the East:
"Last season the four of us had such q
perfectly lovely, enjoyable time for three
months at the seaside that we then and
there resolved to repeat the delightful
experimentation experiment it truly was
our venturing on an all summer vacation
| with $25 in the common treasury to begin
! with. And just on the eve of our starting
again thought | would tell you how we
contrived and what immense fun it was"
This is what one of the brightest, dainti
est little women imaginable said to me q
short time ago, and for the benefit of scores
perhaps. of similarly situated women will
reduce her amusing and interesting story
into few practical hints as to how one
may have long, delicious rest and enjoy,
ment for the very least possible amount
| OF money.
The question of clothes does not figure
very conspicuously in the jolly summerine
l so strongly advise. Every woman has
enough plain, cool, summer dresses left
| over from the summer before, or has a new
cambric, or gingham, or sateen for com,
fort, and to be anything like fashionable
will take all the restful picnic feeling
away. To begin with, make what you
have do, with one grand, solitary excep-
tion-a plainly made, unobtrusive bathing
suit, for the very core of your summer va
cation will be the health-giving dip in the
ocean Just as often as you can. Pack your
trunks-only one for each of your party
of four dear, intimate friends-buy your
tickets and go ogleefully otto that big, empty
room, save for shades and mating, YOU
have previously engaged at a rental OF
$40 month, with balcony across the
two front and side windows-;just such a
room as was rented last summer and will
be again this season at Ocean Grove
Once there, you begin to make home
for three months on capital of $25 and
an income of So week from each of the
party. AS far as the living is concerned,
it is made simply delicious. Ina corner OF
your balcony, concealed from vulgar public
gaze by curtain, artistically draped, from
the skirt Of an old yelling dress of one OF
the party, place a small kerosene stove and
cook your own breakfast of coffee, omelet.
trout, or chocolate, boiled eggs and rolls
the bakers wagon passes your door-in
fact, every kind of eatable is peddled-
taking turn at the housekeeping, week
about.
For dinner, you will find fish very cheap,
as often as you like it, and it does taste SO
good at the seaside. Steak, chops, ham,
with one vegetable, and sometimes-pretty
often-no dessert beyond cream puff
apiece bought at the bakers. OF course
you are not wishing for or expecting hotel
fare, but not one of you ever need go hun
cry. And when your turn comes to cater,
you will find the genuine sport there is in
trying to vary the bill of fare, and putting
your unfortunate colleagues, who are not
such housekeeping geniuses as you are, to
the everlasting blush. But don't do as one Of
our quartet did-ofier mush and milk
four suppers in succession! Bean soup,
baked beans, stewed potatoes, fried toma-
toes, with bread and butter, and good
cup of tea-well, try them, if you go for
supper. And cheap enough, in all reason.
For supper, also, you will have cold
dishes, berries, bread and milk, canned
meat and the like, in true Bohemian
fashion, spread on your drygoods box table
lllS iuShNlItiA IVA Ou SSLlG NOul Dtu-
clothing, pillows, towels and tablecloths in
covered with pretty cloth brought
from home. So much for the way you
spend the major part of your $40 income.
Your lights may be candles, or, if you pre-
fer the superior style, a lamp purchased
after your arrival. Your laundering
is the most serious question to
tackle, for the washwomen at sea-
side resorts are most exorbitant
in their charges. But, by arranging to
wear, if possible, lightweight woolen
dresses, pretty gray underskirts instead of
white muslin, great deal may be saved,
while you will be surprised what a really
respectable little wash of small pieces you
can manage in your dish-pan.
But about that bare room? And why
S25? Just the easiest, most delightful
business in the world, if you know how
Besides the one large box of bedclotheS,
which you have utilized as a table, and
covered with cloth so large the sides are
draped to the foor-Our friends used gay
tiowered worsted counter-pane. You sent
by freight second box, containing several
mats, from your respective homes, some
dishes and cooking utensils, pictures,
books, knick-knacks, your sewing baskets,
writing material, a clock, your smoothing
irons, old lace curtains, paper of tacks, a
hammer, nails and hooks. And when you
unpack, what a treasure trove that box
will be. And what delight to arrange
and rearrange them; to take up the cur
tains tha: were consigned to the attic at
home, and loop them back with pieces OF
ribbon that your folks laughed at for tuck
ing into your box; to dispose of the
mats artistically; to convert the
empty box into closet for cul-
mary and dining-room articles
to drive your nails and hooks Just where
they will be most convenient; to repack
your trunks so the level side is uppermost
and which will make very respectable
tables, with other pretty covers on them
for your books, your toilet conveniences
and whatnots.
This completed, sally forth with your
little fortune, and at the store where such
a big business is done in that line, hire
two double cots with spring bottoms, four
rocking-chairs and four plain chairs-the
ten pieces will cost just dollar week
| Sl3 for the full three months you hope to
| remain. Then buy hammock, two Of
them if you wish. and swing them on the
balcony; put couple of your rockers out.
side, and if you haven't the coziest
homiest place in which TO enjoy a regular
summer rest, don't know where it can be
found. Of course, scores of variations
will suggest themselves to every widea wake
woman who attempts such aquiet, economi.
cal outing; but that it can be done, well
done and comfortably done on the figure
given, has been demonstrated quite often
Cheaper accommodations may be had, but
close, crowded quarters, especially at the sea-
side, are very undesirable. Ore wants the
direct sweep of old Neptune's salty breath
and to locate far inland is to miss much OF
it. Such party as | haye described, 60
ing for genuine comfort and health, will
| not fail to find it, even without the acces,
sories of style, dress or replete pocket
book. Just look at the figures:
Cash on hand to spend for fur
nlsnlng 30 "
Furniture %
| Two small piazza hammocks, or
one larger one (common) .......-.... 90
| One months rent in ADVANCE 10 90
| Weekly Income, presumably on
SlZ "
| weekly rent. - 0U
| Possible washing item.................. l 90
| IS 81
Balance for IS 81
We four who spent several weeks in thi
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