The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-21
HOW TO PICNIC.

The picinicking season has come and
the VIC lgs with it a good many
unpleas reoollections and very few
pleasant ones. at the first blush, it
would seem to be very delightful thing
to go forth under the open sky, to lie
upon the yelvety lap of mother Earth
and listen to the shorthand remarks of
Nature; taking your friends with you
would only add TO the pleasure. But
theory aud practice are widely different
and they are essentially so III all matters
| pertaining to ricnics. To begin with,
| people make so much ado III getting
ready. Don't get ready Go in an in
formal, impromptu way and you'll find
Nature taking an after dinner nap and
you can learn more of her than you
could in dozen formal calls. If you
can not get what you want to take for
love or for money-certainly what gold
Will not buy is Observation-Disclosures some
thing else and don't fret. Endeavor
not TO be unreasonably particular, but
be sure and have something very nice.
Il the party are hungry and jolly the
quality will not be noticed SO much If
the quantity is inexhaustible. and let
It be remembered that dozen people
viii not be likely to devour ton OF fros-
ted cake, but they might eat bushel OF
sandwiches and Eforty quarts Of straw
berries, Pionics and excursions often
involve Iii getting up an hour or two
earlier than usual, and that makes or
binary mortaIs amenable to neither the
golden rule nor the ten commandments.
Plan an excursion in your own back
yard rather than incur the risks involved
in the loss of your morning nap.
We are apt to go to picnics expecting
a great deal or expecting nothing-ex-
cept to be bored. Now If ever those
are blessed who expect nothing it is
upon these occasions. One should not
go as to feast of delights nor yet as to
execution, resolving, withal, to do all
that in him lies to make happy picnic
for the party and there viii be one for
him. Selfish people who think only of
| their own rosa-leayes are as unhappy at
picnics as everywhere else. Those
who are, spiritually, clothedin sunshine
are happy in the greenwood even if the
pepper and salt was forgotten and they
must eat strawberries without sugar.
| They will enlarge upon the happy chance
that the berries were not forgotten, and
| eat and be merry.
There are usually too many people in
| yited and the consequence Is that there
| is so much noise and confusion that
| Natures conversation is inaudible. In
| fact, the dryads, woodnymphs, the
| fawns and the satyr5 are all SO frighten-
| ed that none of them will appear. A
| dozen is the largest number that can go
with any prospect OF enjoyment, except
| to q school picnic, and they are an
| abomination to every one except the
| children Beware of the fatal thirteenth.
| Two very good number, especially
| if they are intimate friends, or even
/ lovers However, in that case, they
| could be happy anywhere. Disagreeabie
people who are afraid it will rain, who
| can t eat with their fingers, who wonder
| if there are any snakes, who, in short
| have not heart to soothe and sympa-
| thize should be avoided on this as upon
| other occasions. Babies should always
go to picnics, and, If you have none Of
your own to take caioie some one into
going who has one. i babe att picnic
is even more than q wellspring of pleas
ure; it is a whole Lake Michigan OF de-
light. It is SO happy, crawling about
on the grass, playing in the dirt, and if
| it should happen to eat few worms
it VIII only make it healthy. The little
thing is 50 perfectly satisfied aid hap
Ply itself, that enc IS ashamed not to be
happy. too.
Before starting out, remember that
monsters inhabit woodland wilds, Ill the
shape of spiders, measuring worms,
caterpiliers and toads are sometimes
seen. Resolve, if you are woman, to
scream if you see any and if you
resolve not to you will loose your self
| respect and that would be very sad.
When we picnic, let Us go forth in 6
"God bless Us every one" spirit and then
we shall be happier than the longest OF
these golden days OF June.-Se1at5aaet
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