A twenty-five cent can of the devilled ham sold in the stores will spread 50 thin sandwiches. Sandwiches are never good unless they are thin. There should be a very sharp knife used and an effort to try how thinly the bread can be sliced. Spread one slice with butter the other with ham, put them together and cut off the edges smooth and even.

Uintah Lake, State of Cornucopia,

July 1.

Came over with Mr. Farewell and his family of boys to commence the resort season. It will be a good opportunity to note the cost of first-class family living, with a regular bill-of-fare.

Mr. Farewell has invented and manufactures the only successful fire escape and in the course of the business has learned a good deal about hotels. He formerly bad a "shooting box" at the lake where he would pass an occasional week, then as the lakeshore became settled up he built a house to bring his family to for a few days. Then he built another in which they could live all summer. Then came all the relatives and friends and business acquaintances who respected Mr. Farewell, and he built still another house, wherein they could pass the summer, too. But it is very likely that at the end of last summers pleasure the hostess quit pretty tired. I don't know what she said, but the fact is, that this year Mr. Farewell starts in with a regular hotel register a regular manager, a regular housekeeper, a regular cook and a bran new omnibus. I am afraid it will not pay him in cash, but he will get peace, rest and pleasure for his family at a less cost than heretofore.

So, this is the kitchen; a summer kitchen, truly; not ceiled, with plain boards for a floor. I am glad it is so, for there are no hotel advantages to be counted. I'll bet it is just like all the rest of the summer boarding house kitchens, on both sides of the lake, just like the Trulirural House, over on the point; just like Swibob's on the rightand Barnacle's on the left. Yes, it is good enough.

And this is the stove, a number 14 or 16, or thereabout; and this is the cook's hot water tank - a big tin teakettle -the reservoir being for soft-water for the dishwashing. I suppose there has been many a fine meal cooked for a hundred or more on smaller stoves than this, and teakettle cookery is not so bad in some places. Anyway, it is as good as all the rest and the stove has an immense oven. The Palmer House at the depot has a fair-sized range and a new 30 inch broiler arrived for it on the last train, but we are not a large house like that.