The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-21

approval - ..
"a vagrart. demoraIizfng habit. saws
Some one procedure ups citing TO every
rule of PROPER outdoor housekeeping II
makes twice as much work Tor people
to be going to bed twice in the twenty
four hours :"
That may be, but there are living ara,,-
ments to prove that this mapping BY day.
| light, this stealing Whole solid working
| hours out of the CALENDAR, is wise and
economical The wife of a cotton Man
| ter, VINO looks so voting and fresh that
she smiles when she shows a stranger the
I likeness of her great granddaa ghter. as
| signs this midday rest as the reason for.
| her youthful appearance.
Ana L am sure 1t is that that has kept
Mr.. in health' she adds. From the
| carly Spring until October VIZ" rsst IN the
afternoon. L discovered early in NV
housekeeping that with little pains the
| servants and children could he made to
understand that the after-dinner nar was
not to-bei broken IN ubon.' Tf'eY sJF1.- !.
And If you have guests who do not
| care to lie down at. that hour, what do
you do?" is asked.
Il recommend the practice and if thew
prefer to sit up, hunt up something for.
them to amuse themselves with during
my absence OF course, If they are yery
great strangers who fear might regard
my leaving them as a discount esv.7sT r re
frain, but we, seldom entertain ANYBODY
with whom we must be on terms Of such
strict etiquette. That is, unless, some pub
Tic function makes 1t imperative that we
receive strangers" sfa--
And you stay here at the place all
summer"
always. The summer is Just the most
1nconvenient time for a planter to get
away from home. Besides, we could not
be as comfortable anywhere else MIR. b
likes his 10 o'clock made in a particular
way when he comes in from his morning,
rlde over the crops, and wants his early
breakfast and certain dishes and regular
comforts that he would miss elsewhere.
We find that if it is company we want.
1t is much better to have people visit
US than to rush about hunting them Id
We have always cultivated the staying
at-home habit"
Perhaps no better exponent OF summer
time in the South could be found than this
serenely contented grandmother, sitting
on the shady porch aboye. her rose garden
CARRIED in the white gowns she always
wears. She fans herself placidly with her
Morocco-bound fan, the while she gives
household directions talks to some life
long friend.
L read in the papers about the hot
waves and the sunstrokes of higher lati-
LIVE SIZE tSoy5, ana 4 really believe.
after all. that our long drawn out sum
mer is as comfortable as any. The Sc
cret IS IN being used to thing and be-
ing. hNed fof 1t. When May comes each
year everything in. the house is changed
round with a view to GOODNESS and open
ness.
There is so mach summer down South.
| In the Language of aZblack- sage of the
land-a Strong, young sage not yet touch
ed with cynicisn-it'3 hard to keep It
down Seems like everything wants to
Guido itself with putin, out-a and ffowern'
and loekin' pretty. stead of keepin'
steady and bearin' crop.
1T Is his cotton and corn that sage has
In mind when he says this, his cotton
that threatens to make all stalk and leaf
and his corn apt to tower aloft at the ex-
pense Of the size of the grain But one
recalls the siI1!11e of Everything outdoin.
| itself when passing through forest and
swamp, where nature is at ffoodtde the
main furnishings all complete and every
thing that has wings, fins or feet every
thing that grows, Is decked off in the
best apparel, speaking out in such FASH
ion as IL may and feuriShing to the TOD
| of it's bent
Summer time in the South means! boat
ing parties and open air fetes and moon
lit nights besides, when the earth seems
baptized anew land natures pulses stir
with something so near akin to adora-
tton that the knocking bird awakens IN
her nest and is moved to sing about it,
! The hooking bird knows all about 1t, and
tr1lIs 1t out almost as eloquentlv as the
tender mystery of the moon. She sings
over in the quarter" and the black-skin-
ned lasSieS and ''mamInies' come out Of
their beds to- listen, and the rough pIow-
men as we'll
There is something in the Southern
summer night that fosters WakefuIness
The negroes seldom sleep, or even lie
down the--entire night through. To use
their own phrase-"They love to git up
and stir bout" and this habit accounts
for their knowledge of wind and weather
propheSyng, and talk about 1acl1-o' IAN
terms, queer something's that they see,
the meanings that they give to the owls
9hooting and the bull-bats' behavior at
certain times and under certain circum-
stances. Ee-p in-ft.
One may have lived in Texas and visit
ed in Georgia, have had a glimpse of MIS-
siSSissippi, and Alabama and be fully
aware of the variations in cline and cir
cumStanceS embraced in the term South
yet in writing of Summer in that region
the particular slice OF country or strip
have been spent Will get the most atteL-
ton. 1t was evidently meant that people
should take in things only in part, One
may know where the river rises and
where it emptfes and may have seen 1t
VaIi0Usly as it goes on its course, but the
one little span OF 1t that the eye can
grasp at once Is limited the rest is only
in the MINDS larger vision SO sumner
in the South IS associated with a stretch
Of sea- girte1 shore with surf warm and
luxurious tossing on the beach and palms
white mounds of heaped-uD sand and
houses blindfolded with awnings and
long-Slatted ptaZZaS-a place where the
breeze blows perpetuaily, and the SUN
shines renors elessly, and everybody eats
and drinks and sleeps as people mi. sc
have eaten and drunk and slept in prime
val times before cars came into the world
and taught that there was such thing
as digestion and such bug-bear as In
Somnia.
II had no idea that there was a spot as
cool as this anywhere in the South" said
a little New Haven woman whose hlls-
/ government work about this particular
! harbor. u dreaded so having to be here
in the hot months and all my fnien y pro-
dtcted that ! would suffer. but hive not
been Uncomfortable hot single minute
And I have learned for the first tina
to enjoy. sea bathing 'i~shea added II
have tried the surf on the Massa chusett $
| coast and been 80, cold that my teeth
Chartered. Some days there We could not
go in at all. Here the water is so warm
that one reyels in 1t, it is cool enough
never knew before that the sun could
glare 50 sefercely. { wear this enormous
shade hat all the. time, indoors and cut,
and have grown 80 used To it that am
and go to dinner with 1t on
This was the verdict regarding heat at
| a Southern resort in midsummer an isl
and in Charleston harbor whose name 10
cally is construed into synonym FOR
bree ziutss and health.
! There is another phase of the picture
in mind, however, of cloSed-in morning
rooms in Southern city houses, or bsad-
! 70 ms where mosquito bars large enough
| to cover the greater part of the apart
I Tnent wend down and outSpread from the
! &C ntraI feature, bars lace bordered, lofty.
capable Of taking in one crib or even
| two, BESIDE the big bed. if there be tod
! dlers n the family. Not that the little
ones might not have their own veflfngs,
but because the getting in or getting