Comforts of Staying at Home.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 266, 10 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Comforts of Staying at Home.

Those who thirk ib hard that they cannot go to the country, the mountains or the seaside, bub mustjspend the season in the crowded city, night (writes the ' Canadian Health; Journal!) derive some solace in enumerating bhj many annoyances and vexations they tacape, but which have to be endiired by tie envied one who can go away. Many the-e aro, to be sure, to whom a change of a fveek or two is almost, indispensable—Schaug'e of some sort, or almost my scrt—|u't a vast number go from custom,!, fashion, fr yearn to go, who do not require'any more jibange than their weekly l'outine biing9 thin at home. Those who stay at home eseaip the smoke and cinders and dust; ef the cnwded cars. They will not, ill the great' Mountain houses' and seaside hotels, as 'Hater's JBazaar,' in a good article relating to |his subject, gives it, be ' tucked into little |ooms like the banks of a packet ship,' wboe walls are covered with cheapest paper orpone at all; without a Closet or wardrobl and too 6mall for a trunk ; with one wjidow without a screen, or perhaps with o|y a piece of netting through which g|ts and other pests find their way _|d then 'sing and sting at their will1 with 'co hot and cold stream of clfinsing and refreshing water;' but only a magre pitcher, with not enough water forWdinary cleanliness; with ' noises, too, | be heard all nigh i; noises of all sorts, o] people laughing and flinging till after jmidnight, regardless of anyone else, I babies crying, of couples disputing Joud- voiced through thin partitions, olbelated revellers returning down longfomdqrs with careless feet in the small ,hois, of doors slamming, of teams arriving, of bell boys running to answer calls for ice water, and "of the watchman striding long every half hour or so to see that tV great wooden trap is still safe from' tl| flames that one day or other are sure tdSeycmr it; with the stifling heat in fchl little. i*ootts worse than tenement houfe ; rio quiet, no ret'rement, ho rpSace-lndeed, no oomfort. At home, in the cit| there is often mote quiet, with other aticfmmerous comforts of home ; the parks, th|boafcing and driving and little excursions! You who fesl like ' prisoners ' at home Inder flomewhab over these things and be clfcebb.