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frames with holes in the sides, which
new clothesline laced across in our
grandmother's fashion will make into
comfortable bedsteads needing only ticks
full of sweet straw to become really de-
lgstful places of rest. Stationary ia
b&s of planned boards, with equally fixed
benches on each side, make admirable
dining room furniture. Barrels or dry
goods boxes with common muslin COW
ers do nicely for small tables, and SO on
A party Of six, whether of the same
family or merely friends, can be perfect
ly comfortable for three months with
two packing trunks filed with bedding,
a barrel of tableware and the little fin
ishing things they can get into their
trunks, but never forget that there
should always be one trunk or a gener-
Gus box of books.
The cost of this sort of an outing is of
ten less than staying at home, especially
if you live in n city. 1t is in every way
a perfectly feasible plan for half a dozen
ladies who can get away from their
cares, and is worth tons of medicine and
years of "doctoring" in restoring health
and tone to the body and bringing
sweetness and light to the mind.
The important things-the indispensa-
bles-are: First, to leave home burdens
at home and carry no worries t. lie
awake over; secondly, to select a com
pany hat will be as harmonious as posi-
BILE; and thirdly, to go with mind made
up to put up" with other peoples ways
and not be annoyed by them. The party
should expect to live plainly, and to give
up their w whims.
1t is most successful when each mem
Der has a hobby to fill her days with
pleasure; n may be a botanist, another
a sketcher or photographer, a third u
student of insects or birds; one may be
devoted" to needlework-fancy or plain
and another to books. ; Each one
should provide ample material for her
individual idiosyncrasy and be prepared
to show the broadcast liberation for all
the others, and health and happiness
will be the sure result.
l have seen this plan carried out, even
to the extent of doing all their own cook
ing, by a party of young girls during
their school vacation. They were New
England village girls accustomed to help
themselves, and they took a farmhouse
with nothing but an old cooking stove in
it, half a mile from a neighbor. With
almost no baggage they made the house
habitable, and they had GLORIOUS times
for two weeks.
One OF the valuable results Of this sort
of an outing is the f~orbearance it Guilt
Yates in us. 1t is natural, from the soil
tary lives we have led-each one mistress
within her own four walls-that we
should be somewhat intolerant of other
peoples ways. We are apt to be per-
fectly sure that our way is the very best,
and to be surprised hat others do not
see it in the same way. Anything we
can do, my sisters, to uproot this poison
GUS weed in our hearts, to teach US a
wide Gberality and tolerance. and to
show us the infinitesimal unimportance
of a thousand and one little points we
have been wont to consider of moment,
is of the greatest possible advantage to
us, and is the lesson we need above all.
The reward is great, for the conquer
ing of this lingering narrowness opens to
us II new world of happiness of which
we never dreamed.
OLIVE THoRNE MILLER.