Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-08-21

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| HuckIeherries Cinrerhroad
| Icod COCO,
One Of the most charming and enviabe
| characteristics of the Western woman is
her ability to create a comfortable and ar
tistic home out of whatever materials NAV
be at hand
Back East" as all Californians saws
the capable woman who could turn her
hand to anything was held to have fac
ulty"
In the West she still possesses faculty"
but often with an increased perccption of
what is artistic and what is suited to spe-
cial environment. In the process of trans
planting there has been a disintegation
of many old time ideas The crudeness
the narrow adherence to family and
ncighborhood tradition in furnishing and
methods of housekeeping soon slough off
| Freight rates are too high Tho heavy
mahogany bedstead. solid or venocred. the
hair-cloth sofas, the colossal feather bed
lpermeated with the effluvi,lm of generations
dead and gone. the plush albums. wax
! flowers, Titanesque Castors and mink. flow
cred Cuspidors have all been left behind
and untramrnclod by what AUNT Jane
or "the neiehhors' will say. she can go to
create a new household heaven in the new
earth using tho materials at hand
In Arizona the accepted saying is: THE
woman who can't make "A comfortable
empty beer bottles and gunnv-sacks is no
housckecper" This may be taken as
poetic license but out of the desert itself
] have seen homes evolved-homcs that are
a JOY to look at-a privilege to share.
From the earth itself come the gray rest
ful walls of adobe holding ont the cold of
winter and the heat Of summer From
river bottom. rocky mesa. volcanic over
flow or deserted mine are collected varied
and beautifully colored rocks and ores for
the building Of the stone fire place. Cacti.
quaint and curious bear trausplantlne
from the desert II the now ward going
on to unfold their crowns of yellow. Grim
son and purple bloom. Tho scarlet hover
ed OCatllla makes n Garden mailing that
would turn the heart Of an Eastern garden
; er green with envy. and the verdant canes
Of the river mott. mingled with the
branches of the cotton-voods which al
most grow while Won wait furnish a nro-
tecting canopy that should bring the blush
of shame to the gayly striped checks of
the city awning
Simple furnishings with plain lines and
no dust-catchine scrolls and curlv-cues
and of these Only what is necessary for
caretahcr's daily round of NECESSARY
homework and at the same time satisfy
the eye grown weary of the Multiplicity
of useless things for which there is really
excuse,
In California there Is y widor field 70
draw from in the native woods that make
. the building of A little home like tho ar
l raneemont of a beautiful pir,uro. t,re-
I urlentlv a vcr,nda * b,iilt dircc.l, about
| A live oak tree which furnishes hon SIM
S mort ard shade over1orni,c .hinc1.e of
/ cedar in the natural lr,vv,s ar rrdwood
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