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of freedom, and such a hostess need never eat alone. 
lieve love is at the bottom of hospitality in its true sense. 
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A COUNTRY HOME AT TUXEDO PARK 
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Life at Tuxedo Park is of course essentially a life lived 
out of doors. A lake of considerable size offers opportunity 
for many forms of fresh water sport and during the Winter 
its smooth and glassy surface makes it the scene of much 
of the seasons gaiety. Motoring of course has many fol- 
lowers in addition to those who depend upon its fleetness 
of service to speed them to and from the city with its work 
and activity. The clubhouse is naturally the very center 
and soul of social life within the park gates, although of 
course each estate is the center of a smaller social life of 
its very own. ‘The settlement is intended principally for 
those more or less prominent in the world of affairs and 
its success, represents, perhaps, the highest achievement of 
the country colony idea. Tuxedo Park has inspired the found- 
ing of many other home colonies, but no other offers more 
variety of surroundings or more of the activity and interest 
which constitute the chief charm of country living. 
The influence of Tuxedo Park has been helpful and 
powerful in stimulating the movement toward the country 
which has been taking place in America during the past 
twenty years. First of all, its nearness to New York made 
easy, what may be called the “discovery” of the country 
by entering the original settlers into the hills and dales of 
its mountain fastnesses—there the beauty of its country 
and the great variety of out-of-door life which it offers 
made very plain the advantages it possesses and finally, the 
beautiful homes built within Tuxedo Park have had a 
stimulating effect upon country home architecture in every 
part of the country. This growth of country living has of 
course been wonderfully aided by the appearance and de- 
velopment of the automobile and the excellent roads which 
spread out in all directions, of course, the logical result of 
the motor’s use and increasing popularity. 
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the printed matter brought to light several pieces of inter- 
esting news. One announced that the celebrated East room 
of the White House “has been newly fitted up by General 
Jackson in a very neat manner, the paper a fine lemon 
color with a rich border, etc.’ Another news item de- 
scribed how two Baltimorians visiting in Liverpool “were 
amusing themselves riding on the Stevenson locomotive at 
the rate of twenty-eight miles an hour.” 
The history of bandboxes is yet to be written, so it is 
only through tradition, or the stories of old housekeepers, 
that facts relating to their use and manufacture come to 
light. From Jaffrey, Hannah Davis’s home, many tales 
of the really clever old lady are told. That she was a good 
business woman is evident from the fact that, according to 
J. G. Townsend, Town Clerk, she not only made the boxes 
but cut the material as well. 
‘She bought spruce logs and had them hauled to her 
house,” says Mr. Townsend, ‘‘then with a machine she put 
the logs in on end and sawed them up the right lengths. 
The machine which was worked by foot power, was fitted 
with a long knife which shaved off the wood in thin strips 
about one-eighth of an inch thick. These she used for the 
sides. For the top and bottom, the wood was cut to the 
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November, 1912 
thickness of one half inch; the covering hiding any flaws. 
‘All the boxes were oval in shape and nailed together, 
the sides being put on when damp and then scraped with a 
knife to smooth off any inequalities in the surface. They 
were then covered with fancy, bright colored wall or room 
paper, the inside and bottom usually being lined and covered 
with old newspapers. 
‘‘As the boxes were rather heavy and very serviceable, 
they were used as trunks, suit cases and leather bags are to- 
day, not for millinery purposes only. Many of them about 
here are as good as they ever were. It was the custom 
when traveling to cover them with bags of bright-hued 
chintz, polka-dotted calico or fancy material of the sort, for 
protection. 
‘After making up a stock of boxes, Hannah Davis then 
loaded them into a big wagon in Summer or a sleigh in 
Winter and started out, traveling all over this section, 
spending a week at a time, selling her wares. Her prices 
ranged from twelve and a half cents for the small ones up 
to fifty cents for the largest which was the size of a bushel basket.”’ 
It doesn’t require any great stretch of the imagination to 
see the redoubtable Hannah, probably driving herself, sur- 
rounded with her kaleidoscopic wares, as she traveled along, 
stopping here and there to make a sale or to conceive the 
suppressed excitement her coming created in the breasts of 
the village belles. No quainter picture of olden times has 
come down to us. It lifts the curtain of the past for a fleet- 
ing glimpse of a popular vogue and it also serves to per- 
petuate the memory of a pioneer woman in industry, 
Hannah, the Maker of Bandboxes. 
Doubtless the relic-hunter who cares to take the trouble 
to search through the dusty accumulations stored in old 
attics would come across many examples of these old-time 
bandboxes which have served the vicissitudes of half a 
century’s neglect. A search would be fully worth while if 
even only one bandbox half as interesting as any bandbox 
in the Drake collection should be discovered. Even though 
they may appear in a dilapidated condition, a little careful 
cleaning will restore them to much of their original freshness. 
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tators of the children. As has been already suggested a tiny 
garden about the playhouse would be a source of untold 
pleasure and instruction to a child. Nothing is more fascinat- 
ing to anyone than to dig in the ground preparing the soil for 
a garden, then to plant the garden after one’s own design 
and plan, and watch over it until at last it has reached its 
glorious fruition and has produced actual vegetables which 
may be eaten or flowers which may be enjoyed. All this 
experience might be part of the playhouse’s lesson, for 
much experimenting with the ground and growing things, 
will teach lessons which the child might otherwise be years 
in reaching and which might never be so thoroughly learned. 
There is no more helpful way of teaching some of the 
lessons of life, than by allowing the children to have a 
little nook and corner of their own where their playhouse, 
small or large, may be surrounded by its little plot of 
ground. They will seize upon the opportunity of making 
a miniature home for themselves and their dolls, and in 
creating the little place and arranging and developing its 
house and little garden they will absorb just the lessons 
which are so difficult to learn from teachers or from books. 
Life in a playhouse may be said to be in a way a very 
tiny copy of life in the world and its pleasures and responsi- 
bilities may be reduced copies of the joys and sorrows of 
actual living. ‘Then let these lessons be learned under the 
most happy and the most helpful conditions, so that the 
mere learning of them may be a pleasure ever to be enjoyed. 
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