The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-02
lROUT CATSKILL CABINS.
,rsrpE AND OUT THEE ARE LIKE hARr
OF TIE FORREST.

. Catakiil cabin are worth living. AT nlRht.
.,..sd OF saying, "Now I lay me down TO
..,nn it would be moro truthful to declare.
Sov I hy M down TO the bllAsful occupation
sit.1fns mysaii how glad I Am that I'm here"
pisssed be the nan that invented sleep and
.-tos blessed be the man-though In this! case
y vns a ~woman-that invented mountain
-. The history OF tho origin of On
k.ora and Twilight parks has been told and
v,told. A woman who was also an artist
larted onteora Park. A man who was also
s~,snitary expert started Twilight Park. Sew
.ynlhundred m and men. who are. among
Gam. pretty much everything In the matter OF
s.cupations, have carried these two Ravens OF
v,.t and r~ustieity to their present point,
The proof OF the pudding IA in the eating.
FAe proof OF q park Ia In It's population. e.
oeolally In September. Judged by this test,
he park idea has ~prospered, But the queer
tAinr about It Is the way women take.to IL. II
k,s been known for a long time that some
men had queer summer y%earnings for rus
telty OF the triple-extract variety. AS Alfred
Jingle would cay;
'Oh, for a lodge-vast wilderness-tangled
OildWood-lone fsherman-wood scents-for-
et ACKNOWLEDGMENT"
In other words. there are plenty Of men who
rant bear the sight in summer OF even o hotel
office. They don't like the looks OF the desk.
II reminds them. They don't want TO see
ANYTHING but landscape, three meals O day,
and q good bed at @ p, NJ. But woman has
been supposed to sigh with each recurring
season: What Ia summer without Q hotel
~piazza?" No living man would have dreamed
OF building semi-log cabins insthe heart Of o
forest and nlling.them with women. And yet,
"a soon as they got the chance. the women
built these houses for Themselves. That ia
why these Catskill cabins areS WORT writing
about and are worth seeing.
In Twilight Park there Is a famous cottage.
Jokes innumerable have been made about
women planning houses and forgetting to put
IN the stairs, 1t is one OF those Jokes at which
people laugh In spite of.not believing them. But
the house exists. It Is here in.the park--with
stairs, naturally. but they were an after
thought. Two bright women thought and
thought and thought over the plans Of this cot
tage. When they finally heaved q sigh Of salts
faction over the result and took their draw
ings to the builder. the latter, being q GENTLE
manly soul. hemmed and hawed until he was
purple in the face before he timidly mentioned
stairs.
In another delightful cabin planned by q
woman there 10 no such lack. She has the
stairs. But. as she occupies the house with
only q woman friend. she has rugged up an
elaborate arrangement Of ropes and pulleys.
At night, with a. yo-heave-hol the stairs are
hauled up after the ascent for the night.
Then. provided with red pepper for the eyes
Of burglars Of ground and lofty tumblinR abil-
lily. the two women slumber In peace and Sc
curty.
In Onteora Park there Is q charming stone
auaa nlnA ~ln~AAA h. Az - -k- @..N
It. The walls arc hne-two feet thick. It
ssems too bad that the amateur architects
confused the outside and inside measure
fortunate mistake when walls are two feet
thick. Two feet of ct least two sides OF a room
makes Q big difference. It's like the eighth
Of an inch OF the end Of ones nose. Most per-
sons don't want to spare It.
There 10 another famous cottage In Twi-
light. II has become known to the world as
Eagle's Nest or Best Cottage. and will always
BE- associated with the name of Miss Frances
Willard. It was built for her by her friends
SGT visited:st Rest Cottage. and the room she
ffteoiS Is Ssp q sSo TisS b HIRISSqSs s Il it tb sPps %bIoS :
more beautiful. Interior decoration could
be devised. Birch bark provides q
s SSPd the sof S0l SFss sSas n lie SSslSs' AZ fr sSser n'SSt
person who hasn't, taken a special course in
:, catsfifl cabins are Ike Newport cottages in
the latitude and longitude allowed BY, the
term snJ Some Of them are twenty feet long
them aren't long at ali, but SQUARE. one
cabin ST. yari9MHsly depomlnated the Cherry
Two for a Cent''-has attained a maximum
letting window, Int which shifted sort Of
room. As the cottage 10 built on a side hill.
The front or higher part q this has a door and
yIspor bath Is installed in another corner. and
ihe occupants OF ToOfur lead q luxurious ex-
The women may forget to put In the stairs
and they may get mixed on their measure
esys s.rgogIt there Is one thing they manage with
q the houses. Two young women srchlteets
ttions were of:the kind which makes an audi
we're thin. A man sne7 Who 5I led a troubled roaf "a ex shIsy
Shoe In one OF these rooms for q time finally
hlng tip In the hall a placard Inscribed as fol-
This house was built by women,
And nothing could be slieker;
By Why IN thunder didn't they make
The walls n little thickerl
peade1ed walls. are not in demand. how
eyer, and plaster Is practically unknown. In
Sssai. iHS II hnt ealorflnr + and Si az ns5 cisSn P ana d sIyle e.
Il Just out OF a drying house. SOutside. many OF
Ie houses are faced with split hemlock logs,
MN the bark. still on, Some Of them have
re first story Of logs. while the upper story and
we gables are faced with shingles. Speaking
81 gables, there Ia one house here which dis
Hhees Hawthorne's House OF the Seven
TABLES. This one has u bakers dozen, thir-
Een peaks and points, u mountain range IN
Taell But. IL IL In the interior makeup that
Nv ingenuity OF the women Is most manifest.
mere are enough queer little tricks OF ar
q book.
Gen. George W. wingate has one OF the
most CHARACTERISTIC houses here. The young
people OF the family have literally had fun
WIN the place. Over the fireplace in the big
'o99 y lsthe mysterious inscription:
This is enough to make q man feel as II he
hau oeen drinking some OF the whiskey which
~ cannot get, without o Doctors prescrip-
NY. In the park; But the case isn't so bad Us
y seems. 4 little rolling OF the tongue and
ITISSFhttiihR OF the mouth and it comes out all
~. Rest Easy"
the house Is like some peopls. IT has an
appropriate quotation for everything. Over
iS ~ riNSSadP , e seytn!SSi, nop-musical person has
the 4 bIowssi l q Ike a p%oultice. came to heal
SIpCh the outside wall. under the veranda
tnSSodS mere IL q sort OF k~noGk-kpesd, pigeon
Will Iangled arrangement OF birch roots
IbbotSvna 3hsrs q dozen. pegs for hats and wraps.
Han" fHem ths hoSpitabie hints
In the hI1 h,ioI a.o.l.. 49,