Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-20

prefer il. My husband SUCKS 10 the
crochet scarf and likes it around his
meek and shoulders
Another woman, who before her
marriage was a trained nurse, ex-
planned the reason for moving her
| family into tents on the roof OF their
home as a precaution against an IN
herited tendency to tuberculosis.
MY husbands health had never
been strong" she said. Indeed ne
was so delicate that my friends re-
monstrated with me when they learn
ed of our engagement. All OF his lie
my husband had been going south at
the first suggestion of cold weather
and remaining until it was warm
again. We talked the matter over
before our marriage and decided that
we would spend the hrst year caihplns
In the west.
ITO make things more comfortable
we bought a small portable house. II
was second hand and we paid only you
for it, though originally 1t had cost
five times as much.
I'VE lived in that house for thlr-
teen months, having 1t moved from
place to place as the weather ana
our desire to see other localities
prompted. 1t was June when we re-
turned here, and within a few weeks
/ nOtlCeu tndl my nuSDdiu "o" ioo
both strength and color.
Now it wasn't because it had been
cold, for we hadn't had single cold
day or night. The doctor and talk
ed il over and it was decided To Try
sleeping out of doors.
For the first few weeks he used
hammock couch, one OF the klhu that
swings between its own stakes anu
has an awning over it. He began to
pick up at once and was looking well
and feeling so strong that he suggest
ed that it might be well to let the
baby sleep outdoors to insure II
against tuberculosis.
THE baby was at the time just
three days old. When it was three
weeks old | took his suggestion and OF
course went with the baby. we occu-
pied a second hammock couch, put
soon finding it too narrow my nus
band planned and built tent, IL py
10 feet, on the roof and had two single
beds with a crib for the baby moved
under ii.
"As the winter came on the question
of going south came up, and much
against our inclination we decided 10
go. With Il nurse and baby we
thought ii would be impracticable TO
live in a portable house and we went
to hotel. 1t was only few days
before my husband began 10 look
peaked and he admitted tnat he
found our sleeping room, though
there were too large windows, nc so
pleasant as our tent on the roof.
The baby vas restless at night,
and even |, who hardly knew what
nerves were, began to feel Jumpy ana
find it hard to get TO sleep at nlght.
We moved from one hotel to another,
but conditions didn't improve. When
we returned north in May all of us
were in a worse condition than when
we left Once at nome we went back
to the tent on the roof and soon there
was q noticeable Improvement.
THE next autumn, being still
afraid of having my. husband risk a
Nn l. me north. we went south
and rented a house with rear porch
ON the roof of this rear porch we set
up our sleeping tent and spent de-
lghtful winter. Four years from the
time | married him my husband had
become so strong and well that even
his best friends say they hardly rec
ogniZed him.
1.-TWO winters ago we remained
north and enjoyed it. Now my hus-
band is in business and my children
at school and we never think of going
to Il milder climate for the cold
months. Instead we add more blan-
kcts to the beds on our roof.
My husband and children use
sleeping bags, but | have found a
muslin night dress and light WOOL
kimuno all that is necessary. We all
use knitted woolen hoods with caps
coming well down over the shoulders.
Every, night about half an hour be-
fore bedtime copper vessel filled
with hot water is slipped into each
bed between the sheets to have them
good and warm when we get III.
These copper vessels are long ana
about the shape of a flat sided bottle.
| They hold about Il gallon Of water ana
remain warm all night.
My husband uses wOolcn sheets be-
cause he has been accustomed 10
them for years. but the children ana
| | find cotton sheets entirely comlorta-
BILE. NV Youngest child has never
slept a night indoors since she was
five days old.
4 young college woman just begin
ming To work i'm her profession as
! Landscape architect was the next 10
give her experiences.
MY sleeping out of doors began In
Il girls camp i'm the second year OF
my college life" she said. Il had
| hard cold that winter and the doctor
ADVISED my parents 10 lcI iic So INV
camp for my vacation instead of go
ing home and attending the parties
and picnics | had been looking for
ward 10.
II didn't like it bit and must ad-
limit that my mother had some ditii-
Guilty i'm getting me to obey. BEFORE
that vacation ended, however. haG
promised myself never again II cOuld
help it would | sleep in a house dur
ling the summer. From the very hrst
might i'm that camp tent / slept every
might and all night. In the morning
I would get up feeling as if had been
made over new during the night.
"All other vacations they had hard
work pcrsuading me to come nome
until my father built a tent on the top
| of our back porch While not so
| good as sleeping near the ground it
was good substitute and | got so
! used to sleeping there in the summer