New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
SPLNSTERS IN PARADISE.
TWO CITY TEACHERS WHO HAVE
SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF sum
MER RECREATION.

s.cn q hilltop miles from the railroad charming
II remote delightfully."- inaccessible, one-mail-s-
day sort OF q place where one may catch up with
her correspondence and live twenty-foDr happy.
care-free. respectable hours without owing single
letter" This the enthusiastic description given
TO a friend by Miss Sarah L. Dunning OF her new
home. Rest Cottage.
Miss Dunning and her friend. Mss Palmer,
teachers in this city. and both for many years
have been summer wanderers No precOrceived.
"cut and dried" dress up and prink" kind Of
vacations for them! On the contrary. although
every summer for years has found them in diff
ferent locality. boarding houses ard hotels are
strangers to them. They have explored Canadian
forests. camped IN Maine and Adirondack wilder
nesses. and authorities on secluded seaside re-
sorts
Since plans were seldom ripe before vacation set
n both women were easy victims Of enticing ad-
vertisemerts Of localities; when. this spring,
they saw a well known magazine a real estate
"ad." proclaim!ng maximum Of advantages with
a minimum OF price they believed. signed the deed
and moved speedily 70 a home all their own in
Connecticut. strangest Of all the real estate man
had forgotten fully hall tae attractions OF hls
old house the ample garden. slopng 70 its stone
wall boundary: the wealth or aged app-e trees,
the cord Of white birch" But not a word had he
said Of the old-fashloHeo flower garden, ths fa$ci
rieighborly squirrels the mountain laurel and wild
nor Of the views the skies and the clouds.
The house one of the suory-and-a-half kind, con-
tained enough furniture fer comfort but was de-
IightfuIy lacking in luxurious fittings. recalling
past days OF camp living
There were six hens, but speekle succumbed TO
z mortal malady and sleeps under the poppy bed.
The five remnants of the flock. according TO the
bulletins are SURPRISING their kind in their week
" supply Of fresh
All manner Of vegetables abound in the garden.
bed OF grass pinks, forty-hve feet long, with
thousands Of blossoms is one Of the flower garden
features. The barn. which has derizen Is
served for rainy days and the uses Of a carpenter
shop Already there deep laid schemes for
various sorts Of homemade furniture for the
house. The first devices. however. viii furnish
certain cOsey retreau al the back OF the garden
First Of all. a booH case is 10 be built and nailed
10 a tree that must have been made for that very
purpose. Then there 20 be d work table and
a writing tabIe-the latter big enough for the even
ing meal-and seats frma and in the
and sometimes whole days will be spent.
Best Of all about the place hangs the atmOs-
phere Of a tender romance that lasted hfry-f0ur
years and ended last year when the wife fell
asleep" She OId-fashioned New England
housekeeper, and every crack and corner Of the
house bears evidences Of her tender care
Just such abandoned farms. ranging in size
from half-acre 10 sixty or more acres and
price from 500 10 many thousands. are to be had
in ew-England" says Mss Dunnng Why do
tired city people seize the opportunities these
places offer TO leave the rush and tUuu'r Of city
life for az least one season in the year?T