A Week's Outing On Three Dollars

If the toilers on sniall wages who dweil in the great middle basin of the country could have a little period of sea air and 8ea bathing every summer it would put a new, electric life into them, much of which would stay witta them the rest of the year. The trouble is it costs so much to go to the seashore, and so much to live after one gets there. The first difficulty the railroad companies ought to remove, with the gracious permission of the interstate commerce commission, by making cheap summer rates. The second obstacle was surmounted by a party of four clever young woinen, in a way told very graphically by one of them. They spent three months at the seashore for 3 a week apiece, and $23 besides, to start housekeeping on. As they managed, others can manage, school teachers, sewing women, typewriters and clerks. Young men could accomplish the same feat if they could do as the girls did, cook for Belves. To begin: These plucky, merry girls rented a large room for $10 a month at Ocean Grove. Probably Ocean Grove is the cheapest seashore resort. The room was unfurnished, except with matting nd window shades. They sent tliither their own bedding and a few housekeeping articles that could be packed in a large pine box. One large pine box served them as a table, another as a cupboard. They hired from a village store two large doublé folding cot beds, a rocking chair apiece, dear to the heart of woman, and four other chairs. Their room looked on old ocean itself , and had a balcony in front. In one corner of the balcony they set up a small kerosene store. They veiled it from the public gaze by artistic and beautiful draping. Indeed, the Eesthetic quality of the picture is by no means the least of its attractions. They wore their old clothes, and went bathing every day. Their food consisted of sea fish, with the ocean brine dripping ofï them, and of fresh eggs, berries and vegetables supplied by dealers in abundance. They did their own cooking and some of their own washing on the kerosene stove. They had their books and work with them. They had a hammock or two in the balcony. They swung, they walked, they ate, they read, bathed and rested the sumrner through, and were happy as birds among the trees. They went back home as brisk and fresh as birds, too.