The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-16
Turn Your Hone into
a Summer Resort IS
q Dolce Of Mrs. Scott

Greater Comfort Can Be Had
Than in Average Hotel Says
Culinary Expert
BY MRS. ANA tB- SCOTT.
Culinary Expert of the Philadelphia
North American
.-Bat how can You. make sum
inert resorr of your house
A woman who was lamenfSnS her
inability TO go away tbs summer
asked me this the other day. When
she said financial conditions would
not admit OF the usual summer trip 70
The seashore. / said 10 her Why
don't you make summer resort OF
your own house
II have spent most of my summer
in my own home said. and have
been more comfortable than most OF
the people who go away
.-Bu. nearly every one goes away.
You know she answered
or course. she is much mistaken
As matter Of fact. only few so
away for the summer or summer va
cations of any extent. Il this matter
were carefully figured our, it would
probably be shown that not more
than one IN every forty or fifty res
dents of this city goes away for the
summer" And this year there viii
be fewer than usual. owing to the con
ditions that have been brought about
by the war.
The vast majority of city folk have
TO spend the summer in the same
houses in which they spend the
spring, autumn and winter. In some
ways and under certain conditions.
this IS hardship. bur l wish TO say
that. so far as living surroundings
are concerned. the average home n
or near Philadelphia is far better than
the average stuffy little room IN the
average summer resort hotel
Now. let me tell you what / told
the woman who asked me how she
could make summer resort OF her
.ouse-for some OF the directions
gave her may be of help to you IN
preparing TO keep as comfortable as
possible during the hot days of July
and the muggy August weeks.
a Summer Resort.
In the first place. take up and put
away as many of the winter furnish.
Take down all the curtains and other
fanginss. Even lace curtains viii
keep out some air. and the very first
thing 10 do TO be comfortable during
the sumner is to have plenty OF fresh
air.
Maybe you haven't many curtains
Then you'll have less work putting
them away
If you have rugs on the floors. take
them up. and after having them THOR
ougnly beaten and swept, roll them
up with fake camphor plentifudly
strewn over the nap, as you roll. and
,.a1a a
newspapers that are not TORN or
tough brown paper.
II you have a few pieces OF turn
ture upholstered in plush or velvet or
other material that makes you, feet
hotter still when the Thermometer 1s
in the nineties. have them covered
with linen slips. or If you cannot al
ford this. buy enough material to COW
er just the upholstery itself and az
ter hemming the edges. attach Few
pieces OF tape long enough 20 be be-
hind and under.
CT course. you have screened your
windows and doors before anything
else:
Flies and mosquitoes are not only a
nuisance. but they carry many sorts
of diseases. and by disturbing Per
sons trying TO sleep and get needed
rest-which is more needed IN sum
mer than at any other time-they re-
duce the vitality and encourage as
ease and discomfort
Copper Most Durable
Wire screening is the best sort, ano
OF all wire kinds, copper is the mos!
lasting. II costs more at first. ou1 II
YOU can afford the outlay. IT Will prove
TO be far the cheapest IN the emo.
Next 10 this is galvanized which costs
about half as much again as the or
dinarr black painted. and lasts ABOUT
four times as long
The sensible thing. where yoa nave
the means, is to have screen frames
made 10 cover the whole WINDOW. ana
have these fastened on from the out
side In this way. YOU can lower or
raise the window without giving ines.
mosquitoes or other insects cnance
to come in.
half screens made. and # you feel II
wiser TO buy ready made ones, be sure
they fit around the edges. Most OF the
ready made ones are ca-elessly put
together. however. and poor quailty
of material is used for the frame. max
ing them somewhat costly invest
meat in the end
Where funds are low. get black
mosquito netting-be sure 10 get the
kind that has fine mesh-and tack
over the outside of the whole window
And have all doors screened and a
spring on each door SO the children
or others cannot leave them standing
open.
Awnings can be purchased quite
reasonably. and for windows where
the sun pours in they are really
necessi1y-even il some other things
must be postponed or given up LOT
the time
Care OF Refrigerator
Now we haze taken care of the air.
supply and the needed shade. The
next thing is the refrigerator