| Show I Nv v I IA t A Home at the Seashore Seas on a a Small Salary Vl EItY day brings us nearer to those E F L EVERY hours of discomfort attendant on the summer season hours when the hemming hemming hemming hem hem- ming in by hy hot brick walls seems more insufferable than ever wh when n we wo are prone to enY envy the tho rich who are Lre able to summer at the beach or in the mountains And I just want to tell teU you sister that the task of getting a home borne outside the city I Is not nol nearly so insurmountable as you fancy I and of how bow I made a n. cosey coley little nest for form m myself self within easy walking distance of the seashore A little remote from the built up section of a a. fashionable summer resort and where there thero were a few bungalows just beginning be to make an un appearance there I lay Iny a a. number of plots of rather low land backed by a Jin tiny Jiny trout stream These plots were covered with underbrush there was waa a n. fresh water spring on one of them and pine trees tre-es were scattered promiscuously over oYer the property I purchased three of or them 50 GO by I OO 00 feet at nt I I apiece m making a bargain with y-ith the leal real estate dealer for 10 down wn and cu easy payments pay pa- ments on ou u a sliding scale seale commencing with 4 3 a mouth for the first six months rising rising ris ris- ing lag afterward to 7 7 and then to 10 10 keeping up the latter rate tc of payment fo for foras foras as as long lone l u a time i a as was a required inquired l to com I I pIete the full amount of the purchase price The next important question was that of getting elting some place to shelter me mc when I came to my little country home I 1 found that by paying ing in I could make arrangements with the firm from which I bought the land for the erection of or P. P small bun bungalow alow with veranda water bathroom and gas In order to facilitate matt matters la I 1 gave ga from my weekly salary of 1 15 one half of that amount until until until un un- til the required was Tins paid The he little HUle house bouse grew like a mushroom and soon I was able to go into it and prepare pre pro pare for Cor m my sta stay there The veranda n on two o sides of it was of a width to admit of the use of or one end cud for the thc dining table in the hottest weather All An along its edge I planted old oltI fashioned scarlet runner and wild cucumber vines ines and in no time I was sheltered from the tho glare of the sun by br the cool green reen foliage and red an and white blossoms blossoms blossoms blos blos- of the har hardy climbers I bothered lIt litt about the furnishings inside of the bungalow A A. few fen canvas cang can g chairs two or three cots for myself and friends when they came carne to sec scenic me a small table or two with ith pretty prett twenty five cent cent covers thrown over o them thew blue and anil green barred scrim at the tho e windows to give eho the thc r rooms a n cosier appearance and nud with a a. few bare here necessities the bungalow buns equipment was completed But it was as of my garden aroen that I was JS most proud and you ou can have ba one just t like it 1 r if you will only take the pains It was wear a rustic sort of place not cut on ou straight lines Here and there was an upturned tree trec root covered with rich loam In the nooks behind them I planted round-faced round sunflowers because they always look so glad lad On Oa the front side of each root I planted Jo low flowering plants such as ns por- por candy tuft and some Bome dwarf asters that are gayest at the first of summer The he miniature pond which had bad been dredged out I paved with small rocks locks and nud seashelLs seashelL On it its surface flon floated ted Water plants among which flirted the glittering goldfish ol fish with which I had stocked it ut at small expense A i I few cannas canvas and elephant ears cars strewn strewn here herc and antI there on my velvety la lawn rustled th their ir big leaves in Iu soft accompaniment to too the drone dione of oC the busy brown bee bec that tha t I sipp sipped nectar from the flowers near hear by On tho the c edge Je of the trout stream which In lay be beyond my mr vegetable garden galden at the rear end of the plot ferns ferus and wood 1 plants of different reut varieties bobbed bo hed In lazy contentment at their own reflections j in the water glad In because I let them stay tny I I You C can IJ have a summer home too i if you ou go so about it right There here arc are so many It things thins that you can cnn do with your ow own n t hands to beautify a simple plot of virgin soil an and the doln doing of it will make your rotu bod body stronger and your our tired brain more 1 clear lear j 1 nJ J 1 |
