The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-07-21

tho clouds, where the summer winds
hold high carnival, shut off from the
world and it's troubling voices by miles
and miles of forest looking out over q
scene that fills the imagination with
grandeur and fascinates the eye With
loneliness. it unites every rural charm
to the most complete seclusion. In
front and at one side pastoral slopes
decline steeply to the river below,
which at this point expands to the
width of three miles, appearing from
the heights like an immense lake. Be-
yond lies historic Newburg and farther
along Poughkeepsie. while on all sides
rise the Unfolding mountains, with the
peaks of the Catsklls looming males,
tically above all. Nearer, set well up,
from the Hudson, with it's spires and
chimneys rising through the tree tops,
Is Cornwall, the erStwhile home and
last resting place of Edward Payson
Roe. whence sequestered road winds
its way up the mountain side to Cherry
Croft. so named on account of the cher
~ trees which abound on the premises.
The house is long. rambling struc--
ture surmounted by tower and pic b.
turesque gables, with a broad. inviting
vine draped piazza extending along one
side, shaded by wide spreading trees
and pleasantly girted by a garden and
we'll kept lawn. 1t was built on plans
of Mrs. Bars own drawing and is
tastefully and handsomely furnished.
The authors workshop, a room of
princely proportions is situated on the
upper floor. with that animating land
scape in view from every window,
though in fair weather she is more apt
to be out on the big. cool piazza.
Though well advanced in years, Mrs.
Barr is an indefatigable and tireless
worker, yet she makes writing a pleas
ure more than business. If she fol-
lowed out her inclinations in the mat
ter, there would be no cessation Of
work throughout the year. But she
long ago learned the folly Of the all
work and no play method; hence, much
though she would prefer to keep at
It," to use her terse expression. she
wisely lays the pen aside in December
or January and goes either to New
York city or Old Point Comfort, where
she gives herself up to the pleasing task
OF entertaining and being entertained.
And in this Mrs. Barr excels, being the
cheeriest, most agreeable Of women.
entering into and enjoying gayety and
mlrthfulness with as keen q zest as the
veriest girl, her huge enjoyment in life,
coupled with her superb physical vigor'
and tremendous capacity for work,
constituting the only vanities, If such
they may be called. she possesses. Yet
at no time does she enjoy life so much
as when breathing the bracing air Of
her mountain home immersed In her
writings.
Among other charming summer
homes Of American women authors are
The Homestead, Sarah Orne Jewett's
place at South Berwick, Me-; The Sea
Urchins, where Mrs. Burton Harrison
spends the summer at Bar Harbor, Me-;
Quillcote, Kate Douglas Virgins de-
lightful summer resort at Hollis, Me-. .
and Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Wards summer cottage at East Glouces-
ter, Mass, which years ago she named
Old Maids Paradise, but that was
BEFORE it was occupied by a happy
married couple. 1t was built by Mrs.
Ward back in the seventies. Patchs
bill, its original site, was in those days
quiet. isolated spot, frequented only
by fishermen. but under the influence,
OF the summer visitor it was gradually
transformed into a sort of suburban.
villa, destroying the privacy which,
Mrs. Ward priced so highly and CONF
pelling her. much though she liked thet
situation, to have the cottage moved
farther inland. High up. where the salt
air blows free and cool, overlooking theE
sea in front and farreaching marshesF
Ia the rear, it now stands, with no 9TH
er house to look upon 1t, entirely re- T
moved from the haunts of. the summer,
eottager. RICHARD TUPPER-