Show HO HOUSEBOAT IS INEXPENSIVE Whole Family May Be Given Cruise of Couple Weeks In Summer Around Some Lake or River But Dut few Cew people cnn can can afford afford th the houseboats houseboats houseboats house house- boats one sees Illustrated in the magazines magazines maga maga- sines yet many would greatly like the chance to take the whole family and spend a couple of weeks or or more cruising about some lake or river A houseboat is figured in the accompanyIng accompany accompany- ing Illustration that that- thatIs is comparatively inexpensive and still large largo enough and convenient enough to make malte a family outing very pleasant In many places s sa a bottomed flat scow can be found hauled up on shore in Idleness which can be ve purchased for a rifling frilling ri sum A plain little house and awning can be built upon this of a single thickness of sheathing similar to that shown In Inthe Inthe inthe the ll illustration writes Dwight Woodbridge Woodbridge Woodbridge Wood- Wood bridge in the Hearthstone This little mUe ho house se has two rooms one oIe for Cor a cookIng cookIng cooking cook- cook Ing room and anel one for Cor a living room which can also be used for a sleeping room at night though the men folks will wilt very likely make their beds out outon outon outon on deck under the awning A more nore inexpensive plan still is isA 1 r c A p. p r rA A Houseboat shown in the second cut If Ii one can buy an old flat-bottomed flat scow well welland welland and good If not he will doubtless be beable beable beable able to hire one for a couple of weeks and on this he can erect a n tent nailIng nailing nailing nail nail- ing and bracing the frame to the deck A cloth awning can be put up over the unoccupied part of the deck as Indicated indicated indicated in In- by the dotted lines when the improvised houseboat or rather tent- tent boat will be complete It may not be bevery bevery bevery very handsome but lots of at comfort and and a n very jolly joUy time can be had and andaU andall andall all aU at a small expense Such a boat can be moved from point to point by towing with a rowA rowA row row- A Tent Boat I boat or a n little mast and sail can be beI erect erected d that will prove serviceable A Avery Avery Avery I very small sail will move even a large boat ov over r the quiet waters of at a lake and on a summer outing rapidity of movement is not called for The cuts are are- offered as suggestions merely If these plans are still too expensive for anyone or out of of- reach because no flat bottomed scow is at hand there is still another plan Make a pontoon by flooring over a little raft of lo logs s. s making the floor J Pontoon Scow sufficiently elevated and level by the plan shown in the third cut ut and on this pontoon erect a tent Inexpensive pleasures are best after all aU and very liKely haely as much plea pleasure ure will wm be had hac upon a pontoon houseboat as as the millionaire mil mil- experiences upon his palatial craft |