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Show o THE FAMILY VACATION. To a great many people of moderate means, the cost of a good restf ul vacation is getting to be quite a problem. Comfortable hotel life costs a lot more than it used to, as prices of food and service are so high. A bungalow in any of the prominent resorts is still more expensive. Many people with youth and strength camp out very comfortably and have a lovely time of it. Our fathers used to sleep on pine boughs or in hammocks and enjoyed it gloriously. The campers today want board floors and cot or spring beds, and perhaps portable houses. But any of these arrangements are comparatively inexpensive. A family in most ways is just as comfortable in camp outing as at the ordinary hotel. The children do not have to be prinked and pranked for every meal, where they, must encounter the criticism of the dining room. Quarters Quart-ers are cramped, but the young people aie not banging at a piano until 1 a. m. The one exception, of course, is the house work question. The men are all too apt to slip off fishing and leave their wives all day to struggle with pots and pans. For a party of young people, the housekeeping is fun, and the boys wipe the dishes for the girls with alacrity. After they get married it's another story. When the family gets larger and people lose a little youth and elasticity, they begin to want more restful vacations. Probably the best solution is for a group' of people of similar tastes to get together and hire a cook to provide pro-vide meals for a little colony of people. If the crowd is satisfied with a simple menu, and if the people do not ask too much service, the thing can be 'done at prices away below those of the hotel table. It is jolly outdoor life, and people make more friends that way than in a formal hotel. |