Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-29
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A Summers Vacation on
This Small Sum.
A REMARKABLE FEAT
OUT IN THE COUNTRY FAR FROM
BEATEN TRACKS.
Executive Ability So Great That a
Kingdom Could Be Managed
Easily.
A REMARKABLE FEAT

The summer outing of the average work
ing woman is rarely a time that she re-
members with pleasure. In nine cases out
of ten the two or three weeks that consti-
tute the vacation must be spent in country
boarding houses too crowded for comfort.
Saturday afternoon brings out even more
perspiring humanity to add it's noisy quota
toward the further undoing of sensitive
nerves; and when the brief sojourn in Ar
cadia is over the woman in search Of rest
wonders why she had not thought OF spend
ing her vacation in town.
But one young woman has solved the
problem of how to get quiet and pleasur-
able summer outing on next to nothing. To
her sister who is in need of a protracted
rest and who Is wondering where the
money for it will come from her expert
ences will prove extremely interesting.
AS the young woman in question had
brought on complicated eye trouble by her
work, a long country rest was at last adj
vised hearing which dictum, she at once
made out in her mind the following memo
randum of her resources:
Cash on hand, 500
Drawbacks to summer board: Expense,
voices, pianos.
Gifts for playing Robinson Crusoe: Cour
age, cooking, washing, gardening
Available amusements: Walking, boating,
fishing.
so be it," said the young woman, who
already felt a delicious interest in the no
ton, Il shall play Robinson Crusoe.'
An Outing in an Attic.
The next thing was to find a desert
island; and this, in the shape of three attic
rooms in a long closed farm house, was
soon appropriated.
This came abou. in the most accidental
way. Somebody suggesting an interior
county as an excellent place for the scheme
of isolation and independence, the young
woman took the hint and a train, and In a
little over an hours time was set out at a
little town. Here, for the sum of $3.50,
man in top boots agreed to put himself and
his blackboard at her service for tour OF
the country. He told of the quiet Of Cross
River, sort of deserted village, from which
sleeping hamlet everybody who had not
died had moved away to be nearer the
railroad. The cheap possibilities OF the
place striking home, drive of four miles
brought them to the haven
In the deep shade Of superb old trees sat
a long gray house, billed to rent, which the
exile at once settled upon as her abode.
An old farmer who came up the hill to do
the talking informed the woman that the
rent was s. month But the goods Of one
John Donoghue had Uttered the best Of the
twelve rooms for a year; so until he could
consult lawyer as to their renovation
John had flown in the night with his port
able riches-she must be content with the
three attic rooms which overlooked the
valley. For these the rent would be 81 d
month, though this exorbitant sum included
a garden patch" spring Of fine" water
and all the '"firewood'' that the tenant
wished to pick up.
Presently the old man seemed to place
the eccentric newcomer.
BE ye one O. them artists folks?" he
asked.
She nodded.
All was plain sailing after this for the
man now became as anxious to keep the
windfall as he had been moment before
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