Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-07
ST.. SwrrHIS's Lopez,

'1 T neia-
s' nece"iy Is neaithfui location
-, Ae "o'oe oi sAlieo pnyaolans 4 aoan-
'e"Snoie resor's' &C. near washington,
VIC Nariai ihnuences under winch We
- o"is Hssra'a'ed os 'ns oamPness
VI DC" ar 90 mountain air went IN quest or
l We enjoyed the grand White mountains when
1 had but one baby-no tickets); the nearer
Catskills. with its health-giving. cooling
breezes (when had two); spent several sum-
mers in the Blue Ridge, Pen Mar and
bnena Vista. gaining health and strength
win every fried chicken 1 had also tried
North mountain and Rock Enon and
vicinityi South mountain, with its grand
scenery and grand associations OF old soldiers,
oio memories and old houses and old, quaint
boonsooro, was as health giving as any resort
1 ever found; but. alack and alas, the babies
wouiont stay bables-they would grow. The
same genial, gentlemanly conductor on the
ralroad passed them on year after year. as they
grew bigger and bigger while my husband held
gu. MS Two tickets for six OF us. and could see
MN squirm In ms seat for shame. When the
oLaess son nesa was as high as his own he
v ". ne couidnt do It any longer and bought
three tickets Then the girls did stretch up so
~ was no use to try and work them OF for half
tsre-' would take Tour, yes, nve tickets, and
tnat ended IT. Twelve, fourteen or sixteen
nundred-doliar clerks cannot send families
away I9r the season, with necessary changes Of
~ff' "AN pu'on"'e siA aeAe's.
DA,h OUT SEVENTH STREET.
.oout"seu' ou' NOT cast down, looked
49, NC "sneo iof b3r harpor' out
ouss! anu oroSe out 'th street PIKE
Az SILVER Springs got the first fresh pure air,
iaueu Win sweet heaith-giving aroma OF chest
G 1G. oiossonis ana Grover. out l went on; AT
ohso we began 10 ciimb-those Sligo heights
are merely Ihe Ioothiiis OF the Blue Ridge. Up
anu up I Shmoed, or that livery horse did
burnt Mills was glorious; above on the Coles
VINE PIKE lne scenery grew equal to anything
III sne AueSnahies. l FOUND the water sweet
anu wnat Is more, SOFT, clear and cold.
ven. 1 came BACK TO town and informed my
husoann that was going to buy an acre OF
oeanti1ui grouni on hill top nearly covered
Win nne oaks. with fine spring Of water. and
build summer residence. Hegasped-a sickly
smiie crept over hls face as be suggested that
,he granu spring mad represented 10 him must
nave mad very strong flow, and wanted to
know II had left the little common sense
usually mad rushing down the mountain
stream that sweeps pass Burnt Mills. And he
sighed over his inability t0buy six tickets and
pay SIX fares at even the cheapest OF summer
boarding houses.
Wen, IN the hrst place, there was an income
OF S2o0 from an old soldiers claim that had
been allowed But what was that?
well. said tits all I've got, and il will
nave to build home for U.s."
BUILDING A COUNTRY HOME.
Tn the first ,,acar bad fo,,,a n "a ..,,1s
f.rrno, ar, "a -,
"ei 'ha. saiu couio Jake the said acre at
saAuatlon OF szoo, TO be PAID FOR at the eNpira-
ton OF five years. OF course my improvements
would be his security, and L extolled the health
fulness Of the location, principally based on the
fact OF fine spring, an excellent orchard and
tne Sa.erlnglons ano SWEEP potatoes growing
carnentar rho wnnIS hn;iS A,e "a
cottage, one large room down stairs ceichteen
by sixteen and one up stairs, without chimney.
with seven feet deep veranda TO both stories, put
tin roof on and good French windows in, with
four large closets for nv $3.50.
I'm just going to turn the children loose
under the trees" l said TO my husband. I'VE
shall need no new clothes, for my acre is out of
sight. am going to simply rest and let the
children swing in hammocks or dig in the dirt.
The money we usually spend in getting ready
to 60 away for a season, with the tickets added,
will buy you a horse and buggy. and when you
get the horse this big boy of sixteen will just
call 1t picnic to haul out load of boards and
build what will answer for a stable"
Well, my cottage was ready for us on July 1
and We moved out, taking with us only the
common pieces of necessary furniture and stor-
ing the rest My husband took his thirty days
leave and devoted a share of it to putting up a
lean-;o kitchen with about IS worth of mate
rial and dividing the chamber by board and
paper partition to make two chambers for the
children, and we now indulge in the luxury of
q ten-dollar foored tent for q sitting and recep-
ton room. Near the expiration of his thirty
days leave my husband purchased q livery
stable-run-down horse, unfit for letting, with
an old buggy and harness, for $780, and that,
too, by paying $50 a month.
RESULT OF THREE yr.ns
Tho borsa q, Tho o,a % .h--
go - -. '. 80 much
oe'.e' 'nHn "nen poienaseo' ihoeeo cool, sweet
air In good pasture summer nights is Just as
beneficial to a horse as TO auy other of God
creatures The buggy, with a coat of main,
and % at the biacksmith's, is lust as good as
when we boughtit Ny acre is now fthe third
summer at ST. Swithin' 81 a large strswberry
bed and raspberry patch with thirty different
fruit trees just coming into bearing. have an
excellent little Jersey COW that one-half MAIN
talns my family through the six months spend
nere, aRa NY neignpos Keeps her through the
summer find ths ,ara u ses nie pasture IN
is the horse. also find him the Greatest COM
fort. He costs Sc a month to feed and ia the
six winter months we add IS stable room. hut
he has never failed US one day in the three
years. and the ride morning and evening has
become one of the delights Of life for the poor.
tired-out clerk, whose life of close Confinement
and Of twenty years service in the Department
had made this enforced out-of-door exercise
the gratest blessing that could have befai,en
him, and for six months morning and evening.
soon ceased to be an effort, the horse learned
what was needed, i. e., that he must hurry in
the morning. As it is all down hill this -
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