The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-09
for 0Moamen,

oe as TOPIC OF the hour. There Is
sea versus country" and Furnished
versus unfurnished's in the very air.
Inc new method of summer cottage
aklng is a through improvement upon
the old one, which brought more work
thar rest to all concerned. To be up in
things at present, one must rough it,
q bit IN the cottage life. Devote more
hours to out-of-deor occupation and
fewer to household worries.
BY the old system-between moving
into the cottage and packing up for the
moving out of it and making it home
like between these two events. the house
keeper worked as hard. and often hard
er, than she did at home. And if there
De one member of the family who needs
more than another this same summer
rest, it is the housekeeper herself.
It is decidedly out at present to make
a great hurly-burly. and to move every
article of furniture one possesses into
the summer cottage. Only such things
as are indispensable for comfort are now
taken down. No heavy pictures, which
1t will require days to hang. No barrels
of china and carloads of unnecessary
chairs.
Even in the case of an unfurnished
cottage but little material is required to
make it habitable. The fewer the car
pets n h%angings the more cool and
summary the effect. Ornaments and pic
lures brought down from your cold
weather home are usually unsuited for
cottage rooms and walls, as is your fine
china for the cottage table.
-.
| have never seen a prettier cottage
room than one which has just been
formed at a popular sea resort by a
bright young homemaker. And yet her
drawing room boasts only cheap mating,
wicker chairs, with cushions of bingham
and %cretonne, a half dozen pretty prints
in simple frames. A pair of 81 chenille
curtains, hanging book shelves OF home
manufacture, some bright Japanese fans
and lanterns, and several pots of green
growing things.
In the case of a furnished or partially
furnished room it is well to go from
room to room on the day of entrance and
make a complete. list of everything placed
there by the proprietor. Every article
OF chinaWare and kitchen service should
be carefully noted. This may seem an
exaggerated precaution. But in the end
many little MISUNDERSTANDING and dis
contents are avoided by it. Copy out
the list twice, presenting one to the land
lord and retaining one yourself.
But, however light housekeeping may be
made, the strain upon the
herself is always there. The brunt of
summer wear and tear falls to her
shoulders. In order to allow a good rest
for the woman of the house-or to force
her into it. rather-it is getting to be
quite the usual thing for two families
who are close friends to occupy the same
cottage. During one month the home
maker of one family takes entire charge.
attends to the marketing, overhauls the
bills, etc. During the following month
her friend steps into the domestic har-
ness. In this way each woman is assured
OF utter freedom from household cares
Tor a certain length of time. The amount
OF money to be given out for expenses is
decided upon beforehand and each bouse-
keeper makes it a rule to keep within
this limit.
It Is the worst possible plan to move
into a summer cottage until all rooms
nave had a thorough airing. This should
begin n entire day at least before the
family moves in. AT the seashore nm
less the weather be extremely warm .
httle fire will be a decided help in dry
ing things out. A good idea is that of
sending down some member of the fam
lily a week in advance to make final
arrangements. This member can engage
a woman to air the house and have If
IN waiting for the moving In. If the
affair is wisely managed the woman viii,
also be instructed to lave a meal ready
for the travellers. Nothing is worse af-
ter travelling h a long, hungry delav
before luncheon.
There is another advantage in sending
an advance guard a week before. She
can look to things thoroughly through
out the house and make sure that each
Improvement promised by the landlord
has been made and that each article in
the agreement carried out.
There are so many little ways by which
the sumne cottage can be made a bene-
fit to all! A little .roughing it, in or
der to make life easy for the one in
charge, a little forbearance with short
comings in any direction, and all will go
merrily, merrily.
Not long ago, in an ssemblage both
learned and Therapeutics are not all
ways convertible terms-I met a vo,1np
girl, and felt suddenly as if I had come
upon an oasis in a sandy desert. / call
her a young girl, though she must have
finished her second decade. because 7
think she always will be young, even
when the bright, careless hair above her
forehead is whitened with the SHOWS of
age, says a writer in .Leslie's Weekly
She looked at me eagerly, spoke to me
modestly, and sat down beside me con-
fidingly.
1T is such a pleasure to come to a
place like this, and see all these bright
people" Il would not have told her for
the world that she ought to saw
persons" after .these.') 1T must he
so beautiful to really talk to them. and
to appreciate what they are saving 7
can only look and listen, but that is q
delight"
I smiled in her earnest face. The LAST
bright person who had been talking to
me had seemedson the verge of. ssrlnaber
once or twice, h had only awakened
to animation then he began to describe
the freezing of the water-pipes in his
dwelling after midnight, and his conse-
quent activity with buckets of hot water
until dawn
"Oh, WELL she said, quite as If I had
replied pertinently, It don't mean to say