The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-05-26
JOY COMES
TO WOODS
JEWELLERS
WindfalI Is Roof-Mrs. Suffer
Happy Despite Mosquito,
Luring Garb.

copyrighted, 1922. by Carl A. suttsrJ
tCopyright. 1894, by cosmo politan News
service.)
HoWEBROOK, Me-, MAY 25.-
Just a love nest coy and warn,
Lice q turtle dove nest doUn on,
the farm.
a Ueronda With some sort of cling
ting vite,
And q kitchen where the rambler
roses ttOine;
Then small room, tOith tea set
Of blue
Best Of all rooms, dream room for
too,
Better than palace Nth gtlded
dome,
is a love nest you con call home"
The whole conception of welded
happiness as conceived by one of
Americas best known musical
comedy writer's set all Boston hum
ming and whistling two years ago.
Today a Cosmopolitan News Serv-
ice reporter swinging along
through the untracted wilderness
fifteen miles from here and the
nearest railroad track heard the
well remembered words sung in a
high soprano voice.
Regular Love Nest.
It was Mrs. Margaret Suffer-. the
modern Eve who with her husband is
living the primitive life in the wilder
ness without clothes, weapons, food
or fire. She sang just as the birds
sing when they awaken in the clear
morning air from sheer blitheness
of spirit. Despite the hardships Of a
life in which the Suffers are pitting
their brains and skill against the re-
lentless forces of nature, Mrs. Suffer
was happy.
And when the reporter fought his
way through the entangling under
brush and burst into a little clear.
ing, he understood, too. why she
sang. For there facing across a
wide panorama OF rolling forest land,
he found the Suffers love nest
There were no rambler roses or tea
sets and the dream room was also the
kitchen and the dining room, too, but
II was a love nest If there ever was
one.
Mrs. Suffer made a charming, II
unconventional hostess. She was not
clad in the approved morning cos
tune. Indeed, her sole garment
was a skirt OF birch that had a bad
habit of not staying, but she was
completely at ease and very proud
of her new home.
The hut Is not yet completed, but
Il has some semblance of a domicile
and is proof against the attacks Of
wild beasts and wilder insects which
are thirsting for the blood of the un-
wary traveller. In building the love
nest, Mr.. Suffer utilized a windfall
of broken tree trunks and piled them
are two tall spruce trees growing to-
gether.
Fine Smoke Screen.
The opening between these trees
CONSTITUTES the doorway to the un-
usual love nest. Between the trees
Mr.. Suffer has built a stone fireplace
and the visitor must step over the
flames and smoke to enter the hut.
Inside the semi darkness Is at first
alarming, but afterward is a pleas
one relief to the glare of the sun.
hight outside. A thin curtain Of
smoke rises from the fireplace and
provides an effectual screen to the
ravenous insects.
The hut is about ten feet iong
and seven feet wide. II Is approx
nately five feet high on one end and
four feet on the other. II IL built
in a little grove of spruce trees and
is almost invisible fifty yards away.
| Over and above the tree trunks moss
and boughs have been piled until tho
hut is nearly rainproof.
The Suffer love nest is built on
high ground and looks out across
the deep forest. Nearby is a water
hole, where a mountain spring bub-
bles to the surface. Each night and
morning the deer come to drink at
this watering place, and the Sutte"s
can lie in their home and watch the
graceful animals quenCh their thirst.
Spring has been very backward
up in this section of the country.
The thermometer drops with the
sun. Old residents say they do
not remember so cold a season.
The one-piece bathing suits worn
at beach resorts, however, are
nlbstantial creations comDared to