New-York tribune., 1906-06-07
FOR A SHORT VACATION.

FOR A SHORT VACATION
If your. vacation consists only Of a week or
ten days. and you think that time too short for
long expensive Journey go to some little
town which nestles among the beautiful and
picturesque Shawangunk Mountains. You can
have whole weeks outing for less than SIS as
your return ticket VIII cost you only 81 OS and
you can get weeks board for 81.
If the majority Of people prefer the Catskills
or the Adirondacks TO the Shawangunk Noun
tains, it must be because they don't know what
peculiar charm there is in this beautiful range
Of hills in Ulster County. Other mountains rise
to greater heights and have longer skylines. but
the charm of the Shawangunks. with their sud-
den breaks and deep ravines. is something very
unusual and romantic
Among the most wonderful things near vii
Iage mat visited is the ice cave, a remark
able freak of nature, the bottom of which
IN the middle Of summer you can throw snow
paIls at one another and break iccIes from the
walls walls OF the cave. 1t reminded me of one OF
Dores Illustrations TO Dantes Inferno" to
stand at the bottom OF the dark cold wet cave
Where felt as If I, might freeze TO death the
next minute, and then high up above me see the
sun shining from smiling blue sky and the
golden green leaves of the birches near the edge
OF the cave move gently TO and fro over the
opening OF my prison"
One Of the charms about this town is that :.
is a central starting point for all the most beau
ILflI u and interesting places in the mountains
direction ire
-. -eii, ~ ~ He sure 10 reach some alluring
waterfall or remarkable rock 7
BURDEN OF HOUSEKEEPING LIGHTENED
We were swelterng. The inevitable hot wave
had come, and that fact was painfully apparent
in our faces and tempers. Upon US all from
the head of the family down to Sarah the cook.
the heat and humidity had left their baneful
impress Poor Sarah, in the intense heat of the
kifphan 1ah oraa,
with the vain hope of tempting our appetttes
1t is positively too hot to eat" Nothing tastes
right and like phrases carelessly spoken. must
have seemed to the tired laborer a poor return
for her efforts
determined TO do something to relieve the
situation and after some thought on the sub-
Ject plan was evolved Of which I shall snaal,
Immediately after breakfast, on the second
gay OF the not spell" entered the kitchen
Make some tea and put out the fire as soon
as possible, was my first order. I then took an
inventory of the ice chest. and found there annla
1000 Tor the beginning Of our experiment i'm
~sIhiple ~ IEing unfoided my plan to Sarah and
20 nay reIief, found her acquicScent In the cool
kitchen during the afternoon the following veo
StaDles s We're prepared for cooking-potatoes.
peets. butter beans and peas. Sarah also nra,
pared Tor lhe oven a leg of lamb and a haaf
loaf which. with some cold chicken and a small
plece oi corned beef in the ice chest. would
De surclent Tor our needs in the meat limo for
/ several days. For the evening meal thai er.t
DAY or our experiment we had cold SLICED chick =
en- tnln slices or bread and butter lettucS saIa5
| iced tea, lemon Jelly with whipped cream, a1d
smaH sponge cakes Everybody seemed satis-
heo cool and good humored. After sundouyn
ihe nie IN tne Kitchen range was again lighted
ana during the comparatively cool evening the
ZOO ZOO Mhlch mad been prepared in the afternoon
va, MaS cooked Inc nre was allowed TO go out
again, and for several days no more coolxing
| done. S N"ohiiis
| breakiast consisted OF the ready to use"
cereals, with cream and fruit or berries For
/ me ouher daily meals used the cold meats
Iiso it,,o cainea salmon shredded and served on
lettuce leaves. and various salads The coId
! vegetables, with some shredded cornad Ins
mace an excellent Italian salad. We had also
Polaeo Py stiao' cabhage salad and tomato salad
thet was pretty as well as delicious Fo, 49,
serts we had jellies and sherbets that reouirad
no cooking. Limited space forbids further a.
tails However. this experiment was voted q q
complete success from every point OF view.
Al A L.