The morning times., 1896-07-26
CHEAP SUMMER HOUSES
Possibilities of Portable Buildings
Erected on Rented Land.

Every woman should know about them
and, knowing, set her mind to the attain
ment thereof Even if she is among thu
favorites of fortune, who have country
places, or the lesser favorites who swell
with pride in possessing log cabin in the
mountains or the pnewood, it behooves
her TO read, mark and inwardly digest,
what the real summer house is-and some oil
its possibilities.
1t has half a hundred shapes, half a
dozen makers, and but one essential quail
ity-that of being portable. Next is the
almost essential one of beingno over costly.
Fifty dollars buys tiny one-rOom affair,
suitable for a child's play house, garden
shelter-or study in which genius soil.
tary can soar and sing. From that the
price runs on to about five hundred
dollars-for which sum one gets a truly
imposing structure, with verandah al
the side, portable chimney OF terra Gotta
built in sections, we'll matched, and tongue
and d-grooved together into panel shapes.
The separate panels are fitted as accu-
rately one TO another as Chinese puzzle.
Each section is fiat; hence, when not in
use, the whole of them can be stored
within narrow compass. No skilled
labor is required to put them together.
The joining is by flange, groove, and
dovetaii. Every projection is numbered;
you have only to push it firmly into the
corresponding socket to make sure your
house is well and firmly built.
CHEAP SUMMERING.
Suppose, for example, three women
reasonably fair minded and cOngenial,
elect to spend a summer. not in a stuffy
3 boarding house, but under their own roof.
They buy portable house of four rooms,
likewise a portable dog kennel, porta-
BILE chicken-house with the dove cote at
hnr h..v- s1Alir rnd
carriage paid, wheresoeyer they choose,
for something under $500. A very few
dollars more will rent ground for them,
either on tile beach, at the lakeside, or
In the fat green country SO restful to tired
eyes. They can go into this house the first
of May-full two months before camping is
possible and remain until October is crinl-
son on the hills.
With a dog for comfort and protection,
fowls for profit aud diversion, housekeep-
ing that is but play, they may know a
summer of content. Or, rather, q Whole
half year of it-and end by knowing that
the main original Investment, the house;
remains to them and is good for twenty
further summers. 1t can be stored near
where il has stood, aud next season
transported Mt small cost to a region en-
tirely new. Say the first summer at the
waterside the next might be among the
hills. the third in deep woodland, the
fourth in some place where the fat earth
lang he'd into harvest. With wicker couches,
cotton hangings, a few rugs, folding chairs,
a bamboo table or two, one might achieve
charming interiors ut the least possible
cost-for the simple plenisiing might be
supplemeuted with ferns, flowers, vines.
leaves and moses, set about in rustic
holders, or in stone pitchers and earthen
Jars.
RARE OPPORTUNITIES.
Nowadays when there are so many other
things than houses portable, a very little
foresighted knowledge would enable them
to avoid the worries of housekeeping while
tasting all its sweets. In competent bands
an Oil stove for cooking is both cleanly ana
economical. The warmth OF 1t along Win
the open fire would be mighty comforting
upon chilly days and OF cool nights ana
mornings. In very hot weather it could
be moved outside. Or il the indweliers
had the fad of scientific cooking, tney
might put their trust and their eatapiec
In an Atkinson cusser, heat from Which
would never be oppressive.
II sucn e'< <oorateness IL tempting II Is
diso oeya I'D reach OF many mother VINO
yet ,ags to give her flock the enlargement
O. green fields. Let her bug o cheaper
6ouse-one, sag, coming at hundred and
fffty dollars set it up upon strip OF beach.
or even the vacant lots that yawn beyond
Caty gates in wait for the wary suourbaDite