Homemade Furniture for Camps and Cabins.（自制家具营地和小木屋。）.pdf

HOMEMADE FURNITURE FOR CAMPS AND CABINS By DAN BEARD LOG cabins are becoming deservedly popu- of the rest of the household. In fact, this lar as summer cottages, or, to use a is essentially the men’s room. fashionable term, summer “camps.” Whether it is the charm of the big open These houses were the homes of our fire and the presence of sporting apparatus, pioneer forefathers, and good taste dictates or the fascination of male society I know that the furniture of our modern log houses not, but I do know that this is the most should be as near like that of the early popular room in a log house, popular with settlers as possible. The heavy, old-fash- the guest, with the women and the children, ioned rush-bottomed chairs, such as may and even the dogs will use all the wiles of occasionally be purchased at old New Eng- a canine mind to effect an entrance to this land and Long Island farm-houses, look room and a place by the fireside. even more appropriate than the graceful So no log house should be without a wooden chairs formerly known as Windsor grill-room. In this room there should be chairs, but if any of the latter are among two pour heirlooms, they will not be out of place in a log house.