Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — As Good as a Seashore Cottage. [ARTICLE]

As Good as a Seashore Cottage.

“Are you going to the seashore this summer?” Jones asked of Brown. “N-not exactly,” said Brown, “but we’re going to accomplish the same result without going from home at all." “What do you mean?” “Why, it’s this way: You see, when a person of my means takes a cottage at the seashore he, of course, gets a poor sort of Bhanty, because we can’t afford a large, finely finished and well-furnished house. You know the sort of place the usual summer cottage is. Well, we’ve decided to accomplish the result in another way. We're going to move up into the attic for the summer.” “Move up into the attic?” “Why, certainly. It is unfinished, just like a seashore cottage. The sun beats down on the shingles and raises the temperature above 100 degrees every sunny summer day; that’s just like a seashore cottage, too. When it rains the water doesn’t beat through our roof, to be sure, as it does through the roofs of the seashore cottages, but we can remedy that by poking a few boles through the shingles here and there, and getting the roof mended in the fall. It will smell a little stuffy, but that is eminently like a seashore cottage. We shall keep a clothes basket full of unwashed clam shells standing in the corner to produce a realistic effect. On the whole we shall be ever so much more comfortable in our own accustomed garret than we would be at the seaside, and we shall have this inestimable advantage, that when we get sick of it we can simply move right down into our own comfortable home, whereas if we were at the shore and paying a high price for a cottage we should feel bound to stick it out to the bitter end. Oh, I tell you it is a great scheme!"—Boston Transcript.