Oct. 22, 1915, 
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Monday Night, November 1, 1915 
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O prolong the summer, to push winter farther and 
farther back, is the present tendency of those who 
have established themselves at the shore or in the moun- 
tains, and the number of those who spend the entire win- 
ter at what were originally known as summer homes is 
becoming larger every year, says the Boston Sunday 
Herald in a special article under the title “Stave off Win- 
ter by Staying in Country.” 
I like the weather when ’tis not too rainy. 
That is, I like two months in all the year, sang 
Byron, referring to the English climate. It is not many 
years ago that two months was about as long as a sum- 
mer resident expected to remain at a summer residence. 
Now those who can, remain until late in the fall and 
many through the entire winter instead of opening their 
town houses. 
The tendency to prolong the country season is more 
pronounced and more noticeable this year because the 
war in Europe has prevented many people from visiting 
their accustomed foreign resorts, and since they have be- 
come accustomed to spending the winter away from their 
city homes they make the summer residence a substitute 
for a trip abroad. 
Considerations of economy influence some. The war 
that makes European resorts inaccessible or undesirable 
has interfered with trade and business, and dividends in 
many cases are lessened or lost. For the same reason 
some Boston residents instead of opening their city resi- 
dences for the winter will go to a hotel or apartment 
house, thus relieving themselves from the expense of 
maintaining a house and a staff of servants in town. 
. But above all other considerations is the growing 
love of nature, the lure of sea and shore and wood and 
mountain. 
Those who have children attending public schools, 
technical schools or college, those who do not employ 
private tutors, must be back in the city with the opening 
of the schools, but those who have not that care and 
responsibility are gradually lengthening their stay at their 
summer homes, and along the North Shore and out in 
the Berkshires there is a growing colony of late autumn 
residents, while many of them now keep their country 
kouses open during the entire winter, making, of course, 
occasional trips to the city for the opera or some social 
function. 
The lustre of autumn, the hazy season of Indian 
summer, when there is glory in the coloring of the ripened 
leaves, the winey tang of frost in the air, the charm of 
nature in its most lustrous period, when a ripened leafage 
displays its rainbow colors like the dying dolphin—these 
exert their influence upon the cottagers at the shore and 
in the mountains and there are fewer shuttered houses 
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in the summer colonies this year than for many seasons 
before. 
Year after year the season seems to stretch out, week 
by week, then month by month, until it has become only 
a question of time when most of the cottages will be kept 
open the year round and the city residence will occupy 
the formerly unimportant place of the summer home. 
The owners will go to town for social gayeties during the 
height of the winter season, but will keep the country 
houses open as regular residences and for the entertain- 
ment of week-end parties which are steadily increasing in 
popularity. 
Only a few years ago the ordinary country home 
was built at a cost of a few thousand dollars, to be occu- 
pied only a short time during the hot season. But as tne 
season lengthened with the increasing interest in country 
life came their development from mere summer homes to 
places of all the year round habitation. Country clubs 
were formed, adding a diversity to the attractions of 
autumn ; golf claimed its enthusiastic devotees until snow- 
fall, hunting attracted others, and, making country life 
yet more readily attainable, came the wonderful develop- 
ment of motoring. 
Not many years ago $10,000 would have been suf- 
ficient for the erection of a summer cottage. Today that 
sum would be a mere bagatelle in the construction and 
equipment of a country home. Most of the places called 
cottages are really mansions. Many of them have cost 
close to a million and are supplied with all the comforts 
and conveniences of a city residence. 
Along the North Shore, from Nahant to the tip end of 
Cape Ann, are cottages that will be kept open till Thanks- 
giving and some even later, while at Beverly, Manchester 
and Hamilton are many who now plan to pass the entire 
winter at their country homes. 
Henry C. Frick, the steel magnate whose Eagle Rock 
estate is one of the show places along the North Shore, 
will keep his house open till November and has. made 
arrangements so that it will be available for guests and 
week-end parties during the winter. 
The Frederick H. Princes, who have usually passed 
the winter at Pau in the south of France, will remain at 
Princemere, their summer place at Wenham, as war con- 
ditions make their accustomed winter home inaccessible. 
Bryce J. Allen will keep his house, Allanbank at the 
Cove, open all winter. Commodore Herbert M. Sears 
ef the Mingo Beach colony at Pride’s Crossing, Dr. 
Henry E. Sears of the Chapman’s Corner colony, the 
Ceorge Lees at Beverly Farms, George von L. Meyer and 
George S. Mandell at Hamilton, Charles H. Tweed of 
New York, who summers at Malt Hill at Beverly Farms, 
the Misses Loring of the Burnside cottage at Pride’s 
