Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-04-09
RsopsNINe THE HOUSE.
An Ordeal That confroDts Everybody
who Goes Away for the summer.

An Ordeal That confroDts Everybody
who Goes Away for the summer.
Unless one il Of the millionaires who
have housekeeper and a retinue OF ser
wants in every house, or Of those who.
at any rate, have q housekeeper to send
before and make the city house ready |
for occupancy after it has been left all |
summer 10 the invasion Of dust and
showers and possible thieves, and all the
other contingencies OF vacancy, the re-
turn to the city house has an element OF
| discomfort and dreariness that makes
4 one feel for day or two as if the winter
pleasures were being purchased at too
dear a rate, and as If, after all, the pos
session of two homes were a doubtful
blessing.
Perhaps the mm left in sort OF gen
eral charge Of that and dozen others
has taken down the wooden shutters and
doors, IL such were put up, and has
swept the area and the sidewalk, and
has turned on the water; but that Is
about all that has been done, unless you
have been able TO send some servants In
advance-a difficult thing to do in the
midst OF shutting up the seaside or
mountain house you are just leaving,
and Of course nearly impossible thing
il you have been merely boarding.
One has the alternative OF doing this,
or Of making arrangements with some
trusty charwoman to take of the first
dust and throw the house open, or else
one turns the key and goes in TO meet q
scene Of desolation that is depressing, tc
say the least A duh, dead air awaits
you, too dead 10 salute You, but which
has about il sense Of its having taker
refuge from the million lungs Of the city
In the empty halls and parlors, for feai
n that II ii were breathed once more ther'
would be nothing left of 1t.
q Dust-fine dust-has filtered through
the solid walls, II would seem, for 1t ha
I, OVERLAND everything; You can hardly se'
through the windows; the bare hoor
!. and walls give great lonely echoes; tn
bare windows, the carpets rolled away
"a the shrouded chandeliers. the covereI
furniture, all make such "A scene OF desc
lation that You wonder IL this coul
ever have been the happy home you re
= member here. You wander from roor
TO room: nothing is familiar; all is
desert. ruin; it is the sheeted ghost O
Fl your home.
nd If It were not fer the exhilaration an
expectancy that almost always come
with change You could sit down and or
~, in the first chair that offers its kindl
arms 10 you. But you do not. You ca
your nerves 10 the front and make d.
mand upon all your executive power
MN scrub women are sent for. servants al
marshaled, busters, mops and broom
80 are brought into use
Workmen appear not by magic b'
by previous arrangement; carpets Al
rolled into place. windows are WASHES
anu walls are wiped, pictures are urcover'
and rehung, fires are lit, beds are mad
there is something to eat; one roo
that energies from chaos into likeness of
old self but you go To bed wishing y,
III q had but one residence and had sta
in it.
'so With the morning, however, you wa
unt, refreshed, all your aids about You, I
poles changed, and by nightfall aga
YOU are half inclined to wonder IL y
really have been away all this SUNNI
n di Even If you have sat in your easy CHI
and ordered all this it il n nervous stra
full of fatigue. and You and all abb
mate you realize that a home is not even Ike
to say nothing Of its being won. withC
royal ever recurring exertion. -Harper's Baz