Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-20

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added care to the housekeeper.
But. oh! the comfort of ones own vine
and fig tree! The hotel fades into insig-
nificance beside it,. ana the cottage, with
Iall its objections, is very apt to Win tho
Iday And after one has had the same cot
ltage for year or two, naturally enough
the impulse to own summer home grows
rresistble as the al sSors and valleys.
Hand, eloquently attest. Up in New
Hampshire and Vermont even in pictur-
esoue unknown little Massachusetts
towns, forsaken houses of the cottage
tyne, set in their acre or two of orcha I'd
and meadow, are to be bought for incredi-
IDLY small sums.
Watch your opportunity. One day it
will come, and $1,000 will put YOU into
possession of some roomy, well built old
place within driving distance of a rail
road. The chances are that it will be run
down and neglected, put another thou
sand can turn it into. a most delightful,
pleasant honey dwelling, for fresh paint
and paper work wonders Stained floors
and rugs, a few odd chairs and tables
which, maybe. you could pick up among
the farmhouses round about are enough
to begin with, and a bathroom is easily
Iput in. Then you are householder with
a country seat
Every year you will find yourself adding
a little more in the way of improvements
| for your summers will cost You less than
ever before. That usually alarming item
of clothes dwndles almost to nothingness
|
clean. and as for their mamma she alb
jures frills and furbelows for cool crisp
print gowns, or. at most, muSlins of the
daintiest, but simplest, and nobody wears
| hats at all.
| The doctors bills, too. no lonper anpear
which is an immense saving. Health and
strength are the result OF a simple ulel.
Very little meat can you get away on
| there out of the beaten track but nobody
misses it in the abundance of new-laid
eggs, rich milk and cream. delicious fresh
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| fruit plenty from your own vines and
bushes and trees
There is generally the old bother that
| this utopian country is too far away tol
| sacrificing soul He can be left with a
trusty maid to look after him in the house
at home, sure of a good dinner and cosey
quarters O. nights, and, if he be his own
the advantage of his business and not to
its detriment since there is little doing in
summer, and he will start in all the more
brlskly and brilliantly in the autumn.
Yes, home of ones own is certainly the
happiest solution of the problem, which
will thus be settled forever and age So
In Brcoklne, building castles in the air
wondering where YOU can pinch and exc
out and save the $1,000 to have it ready
when the time comes and the real estate
ginning ''Eureka"'
Once again, John. you warily PROFOUND
your question: why don't you stay at
nome nome Your wife looks at you reproach-
lngly She has told you why. Then with
the fragrance of the lilacS, something
seems to steal back to her out of the past
when you were first beginning life togeth-
er and had no worldly ambitions for YOUR
children as they came, only an earnest de-
sire that they should grow up to be brave
and honest and strong and good. Where
can they DO that better than in some such
sweet country such as you have been
dreaming of? Aren't the advantages there
to be gained above all others? And isn't
1t worth while to give up the beach or the
mountains tor one year to make the farm
house possible?
Ten to one, she turns around to you with
bright eyes and heightened color and de-
clares as she puts her hand on your arm
IN something of the old girlish enthusiasm
sand years ago: 1--WE will try it, we
really will: Straw mattings shall 60 down
all over the house; the children can have
| tennis in the garden and croquet and
| tether ball. and ask their friends to make
them visits here. I'll order a new big re-
| Lrlge1ator tomorrow and you shall send
home cases of ginger ale and lemons and
we have iced tea and palm leaf fans out
| here on hot days and the girls may wear
their last years frocks, little sleeves and
you think, John?"
| You laugh and shake your head. mot
quite, dear. But what we do save will 20
a long way toward it, and when we want a
| monday and a change of air and scene by
ana by Grandma can come and stay with
the children while you and | go hunting
up our abandoned farm Hold on, Let's
see if any are advertised"
| Whereupon your two heads are eagerly
hidden behind The Herald until the church
bells ring out high noon and the street is
awakened into animation with the return
| ing pious, Hooray! For you The Problem
| has no further terrorS. You can look it
gayly in the face and your hearts are sud
denly light as you think of the distracte
hundreds, still travelling in the wilderness
| of doubt and turning over and over the
dlstractlng question: Where are you go
ing this summer?'-Boston Herald