New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
TINY PORTABLE HOUSES
SEEN EVERYWHERE.
ColIapSibIc D7cellings Erected on
Hills and Shores and EUen in
Many Back Yards.

colonies of liputian houses of an architecture not
yet defined and called by their owners and occu-
pants bungalows
There's wonderful appeal about the small
dornices to dweer in cities. Nice little. collaps
ible. folding-up things they are that
almost put in his pocket tuck under his arm
and tote 10 their destination. The portable bun
galow means four walls of home without some
body humping the Yama- Yama chorus the
other side of the wall in the slumber hours of
night. Ii means your porch TO sit upon-you
fold that up with the walls and roof. for
few dollars eXtra-and your own floor to sweep.
Very complete the little dwelling is: quite in the
way of a kindergarten school for homekeepers-
sort Of appetizer Tor the real thing in houses as
were.
Every man could feel as If he were on his own
estate his farm his ocean beach if it were not
that the bunealoafer is gregarious and shows dis
position herd with others. Perhaps it's q habit
that's bound 10 crop out. Perhaps whole colony
is cirCumscribed by the limits of the landlords
backward COW pasture or an unclaimed slice OF
sea beach There's no explaining the cause. Gen
orally little houses show timid disposition TO
huddle together like sheep in a strange PASTURE
and a bungaloafer on one embryo porch often
dig elbow in the side Of his neighbor on the next
piazza TO emphasize a joke.
Along the Delaware River the bungaloafer is a
hsherman-or he aims TO be-and he keeps at
rod-and-line distance from his neighbor. In the
pastoral rseFion the Delaware's banks given
the bungaloafer hsh plentiful as
they down Cape May way and every Izaak ".
pre-empJ his claim what there may be
OF scales in the water. There is string Of little
green houses-Lke long, narrow, high Widowed
dTygoOds boXes-lke long. narrow, high Widowed
pole and coy little canopied porches- extending
for miles along the rivers edge just if a fishing
line had been threaded through numberless pygmy
houses and pegged down TO keep them from blow
ing away. Some OF the small portable habitauons
are pre;entious than others and have little
piazzas all around them, with shady awnings ana
attempt architectural decoration. The
in helm
stolen. a might put her head and
walk OF with it, but man could not
Mostly ] notice that bungaloafers avoid trees.
Whether il is because sites with trees occupied
by more pretentious residences or because the
bungaloafer-like any other possessed of a
novelty-V-ants il where it may be seen from
every viewpoint would be hard say.
HOUSEHOLDS MAsQUERADING.
Even the houseboat has become infected with
the bungaloahng microbe and has slipped its moor
ings all around Camden way and crawled UP
the river bank. where Of high little blink
ing windows ana its encircling deck promenade
may often be seen
LAS country mansions ill up. their owners level
field glasses at the cheerfuly encroaching swarm
Of miniature houses, and sometimes lift scornful
eyebrows and say things that are not neighborly
and kind. Owners q pastures smile COM
pacently every bolt is screwed in a wall
and every roof draped in place, FOR well they know
that in the the bungalosfer they Will
walk into the arched patoi Of the bungalow
The mountain and seashore bungaloafer is
usually out for aquatic enjoyment, exercise
and sport inconsiderable cost and unconstrained
by conventonalities. The back yard bungaloafer
IS Of another type He takes 10 bungaloafng mere
ly for fresh air and change She-there is in
varably a She, with several It's, in such colony
takes to ii for the sake OF freedom from keeping
up appearances. They like 10 feel that appear
ances have been left behind the city fiat.
81 came within conversational range Of colony
at the home OF friends IN the country. The far
end OF their big yard filled up with cosey little
wide porticoed bungalows, lined up al close quar-
tiers like a holiday crowd view pageant.
Joyous children froicked front Of their small
residences yoicing their happiness at having OPP
Tortunity TO romp unrestrctedly. AS my friends
and I smoked the pipe OF peace in the dusk OF
evening our quiet startled by frightfu shrieks
from the bungalow colony / sprang up in alarm.
Sit down. said my friend. They only
putting the children TO bed
A NERVE SCATTERING MEDLEY.
walls, mingled with voices raised in argument.
protest advice. reprimand and the singing of lula
HES intended 10 drown the sound childish yells,
composed a medley OF sound in which one could
scarcely distinguish the protests and advice Of
childless neighbors from the acrimonious replies
given by the parents OF the little ones who OBJ
jected bed.
1T appeared that all the families did cuddle
down their hocks at the same hour. There was
a constant repetition Of the lullaby chorus In
more cheerful vein tinked the strains Of man
dolin, and one lone man sought consolation IN
flute
Gradually the violence Of the colony sounds
ahated. Only the mandolin ting-a-lnged, and after
maintaining separate melodies for some time, ii
and the flute joined forces in a duet. Occasionally
q high-iuEg note struck sleep from some infants
eye.lds. and il broke the tune far off and
away above the key. We sat late in the dusk; one
couldn't sleep Why attempt il?
when the fragrant stiffness OF midnight brought
balm OF peace and our thoughts turned slumber-
ward. gay voices cried out Good nights de-
parting guests at some bungalow. With cruel in
difference 10 the fate Of the colony the home
Eoers. whose voices had been a scarcely percepti-
bic undertone in the evenings vocalizatons, called
back merry Eoth!ngs the friends whom they had
been visiting Instantly the bungalow colony was
awake. II sounded something like this:
- Ma! I want some water,
80 Ma! A shelters biting met
"'Don's you know better than 10 yell that way
tbs tine Of night and wake all the children upr
g TWa-a~a-a-a-ahi' in infant chorus.
Hush. darling; mothers coming
I've a mind 10 out and teach you young
idiots how 10 behave"
Isn't this awful? wish were back in Har-
lem
- 'Wa-a-a-a-ahr
do you 60 through this every nght?' asked
my friends.
They sighed: Who would have dreamed f.?
Who would dream anything when they can't
sleepT retorted
%" We want 10 rent place until autumn. Do
you know any WHO
80 haven't enemy in the world. I declared"
VIRTUE m ONIONS
Onions well known 10 be valuable as
sperients, but Of their medicinal quality
passes into the water in which they are boiled