June, 1911 AME REGAN HOMES AND GARDENS 211 
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Fig. I|—A portable bungalow on the cliffs. Cost, $600 
A Summer Home and Furnishings for $1,000 
By Alice M. Kellogg 
(@aSITH the advent of warm weather the popu- and apparent desire for the permanency of the home element 
§ larity of the summer vacation becomes during the warm weather. 
evident. Not so many years ago a trip to Boarding-house ‘life makes its own appeal to the over- 
the country during the hot weather was strained housekeeper, but its restrictions are soon felt, par- 
considered one of the luxuries of the well- ticularly with young children to be cared for. 
to-do, or the necessity of the overworked, The opportunities for hospitality in the home are never 
the sick or the convalescent. as much desired as during the summer, when the “simple 
Among other rapid changes in this life’ brings varied out-of-door enjoy- 
ments. 
The summer home has become, in 
fact, an impelling attraction in our 
fast - progressing civilization. The 
question to be met by that large ma- 
country, the summer vacation has been 
adopted by all kinds and classes, for 
reasons of recreation and health. In 
many families this brief outing is looked 
upon with more enthusiasm than the 
longer stay in the winter home. Chil- a NG SUN jority with moderate incomes is, how 
dren in the larger cities count the days R os : PARLOR to secure at a reasonable expense a 
before their emancipation from con- One 7*\0 comfortable shelter. 
Unless a family has definite lean- 
ings towards a particular locality it is 
PIAZZA often difficult to select the site for a 
In one home, the joys of summer 6 «13 summer home. One season the sea- 
time in the country are anticipated by shore may seem the best choice; an- 
the young people writing out a list of Fig. 2—The floor plan of the portable bungalow other year there are specific reasons 
ventional life, and often begin to plan 
for their little pleasures in the country 
months in advance. 
the belongings they plan to take away for choosing the mountains, or another 
with them, and over the countless revisions of this list many of the family turns the decision. 
happy moments are spent. We have many of us often wished we could transplant 
A summer outing now means something more compre- our comfortable city or suburban dwelling to the coast or 
hensive than a brief vacation. In fact, there is a growing into the woods for a warm weather retreat; and the idea, 
Fig. 3—A writing desk Fig. 4—Morris chair Fig. 5—Library table Fig. 6—Night stand 
