Happy Though Holiday=making.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 3, 18 January 1908, Page 51

Happy Though Holiday=making.

How to be happy, though holiday making, is a matter many women fail to understand. The woman most to be pitied is probably she who, used to presiding over a well ordered household within easy access of good shops, feels it her duty to transport her family to some seaside cottage, where flies, heat, and casual tradesmen harass her soul continually. Another object for commiseration is the hard working woman with only the few regulation days for holidays, who goes? to some all too popular resort and is jubilantly robbed of ease by day and rest by night. Campers, too, have their troubles, and life under canvas all too frequently develops into a “dream that cheated the grasp.” The trouble usually lies in the fact that something altogether too drastic in the way of change is attempted. The woman used to ice chests tries to worry along without even a respectable meat safe- The worker accustomed to privacy selects for her holiday a place where exuberant young people habitually congregate; while the camping out woman, used to living comfortably, neglects to bring with her as much as a deck chair or a hammock. A woman who has reduced holiday making to a fine art takes with her to all sorts of out of the way places a basket containing just those four things no wise woman ever attempts to do without. A spirit lamp that never leaks, enamelled cups, tea, sugar, and powdered milk are to be found in the basket. Supplementing these is a butter cooler, and a box containing, among other household remedies, such items as boracic aeid, oil of lavender and cold cream. To this basket, she. maintains, she owes her great popularity. In a crowded summer house a woman who ean give a friend a cup of tea, a mother with a child crazy with sunburn cold cream, or a victim to mosquito bites, some oil of lavender, can hardly escape adoration. Incidentally sho teaches all holiday makers an admirable lesson. It is the little things that count—the little things all too often left at home. A good lamp, a sound table, comfortable chairs and a hanging safe will make almost any camp a. success. A little less in the way of clothes and a little more in the way of creature • comforts will make the average “resort” at least possible, while the woman who suffers' the Christmas holidays in a diminutive cottage might' come to actually enjoy them by taking a little thought for the morrow. Water bags, butter coolers, and hanging safes are all both cheap and packablc, while the fact that they make all the difference between comfort and discomfort to the holiday maker might well rccomnend them.