Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-28
FEMININE GENIUS.
sable of the Woman Who Did Not Xearn to Leave Her Home
 in Summer Time.

Once upon time there was St. Louis woman, says the Republic, who did not yearn to leave her home in the summer time. Accordingly she told her Husband that she would spend for stutfy berths, summer hotel accommo- dations and other inconveniences. He, being 8 philosopher and knowing that he was dealing with genius, readily delivered over.
 Wlth a slightly augmented balance at the bank. the gifted woman set about making "a delightfully."- cool and refresh ing spot. the very place for vacation, '' out of her own prosy, hot urban home. It was a very ordinary two-story af- fair with an attic, and 1t had front and 9 back porch.
 First, Mrs. Genius stored all her hot looking furniture safely away out of sight In the attic; everything uphol- Btered, everything plush and velvet and broeade; and with it went the DOT atieres and rugs and winter curtains. Even the large pictures and heavy or- naments were sent aloft. Then the carpets were torn up" rolled up, and sent up likewise. The barren floors wereAscrubbed and cleaned till they de- lighted eye and nostril
 For the floors the talented lady pur- chased mating, and the husband began to see the light and to admire. Scrim curtains were hung like mere films in the windows. and neat wicker furniture, just barely enough to do" was scat tered about the airy domicile There was a suggestion of freshness and hghtness about the whole Certainly the appointments were inexpensive. A few extra awnings were added outside the windows. In the evenings, when awnings were raised and doors were thrown wide the zephyrs seemed to come there, lured irresistibly.
 But the porches were the masterpieces of achievement. They were screened in with wire netting. The front porch availed for sort of sitting room, where, in the evening, Mrs. Genius was at no loss for guests; attracted mainly by the presence of the lady, but partly by the happy arrangement and the refreshing beverages-three swallows do not make a summer, and plenty of bottles, Ice, lines and lemons were included In the seasons special luxuries. You simply couldn't drive the husband away. An other pleasant feature associated with an evening there was the presence of a man out in the yard with a hose He didn't cost very much, but he was a pronounced luxury. Nothing makes sweeter music than 8 gurgling hose playing for an hour or so on the sod, drenching the pavement, cooling the granitoid and front steps The delights of fountain in grove, and it's nymphs, are as nothing.
 AS if by magic, the rear porch was converted into the tastiest of dining rooms. A few dowers-as cheap as songs in the summer-served to mollify the prosiness of matutinal meal over- looking the backyard; and suggested breakfasting on garden terrace or, rather, on fruit and coffee, but with the vision of
 river at my gardens end;
 terrace walk and half rood
 Or land set out to plant 8 wood.
 Lake and sea and mountain and river are all very we'll for those of us who can and will go; but for those of us who can't, or won't, little of the sort of thing provided by Mrs. Genius comes pretty near filling the bill
 The triumph of the lady was attested Tn the fall when all those of her women friends who had left summer widowers behind them returned to the city--these women snubbed her cordially Possibly she had been held up as an example to them Genius, as well as virtue, hath its reward