The Red Cloud chief., 1881-10-13
Picnics and Gypsying Parties.

For the picnic proper. only cold pro.
visions and such as can be easily trans
ported are made ready. Roast and
joints, ham sliced, and the superfiOus
fat trimmed away from this as from
fresh meats. If you have a sandwich
box large enough to hold your meats,
divide each kind from the rest by clean,
OdOrleSs white paper. The next best
thing to a tin meat-case is to improvise
a substitute by lining neatly with
white paper a many small, tat paste
board boxes as are needed. There is
generally a goodly supply of such in
every house in this day of ruchings,
cuffs. collars and bOn-bons. Pack one
with ham, another with chicken. a
third with cheese. and so on. tying
them up securely. II the boxes are
creased they can be thrown away when
empty. The third best way of carrying
meats is to do up each kind in writing
paper. then in a small napkin pinned
securely about the parcel. For sand
witches, chopped or ground ham is
preferable to sliced, and tongue better
than either. Butter biscuits at home,
slice bread thin, and fold over upon
the butter. Wrap the pile in a napkin
not SO tightly as to crush ii, and give it,
when you can a basket to itself. This
is even more expedient with cake.
and \ necessity with fruit. In one re-
ceptacle put up such condiments rs are
needed.
If cold tea and coffee are provided
and they are always welcome pour
them into bottles. carefully corked. At
the cost of whatever inconvenience,
have ice to cool these, water and lem
onade: A lump of ice. wrapped in dry
flannel and this inclosed in stout paper
bound firmly in place with Irvine. the
whole set in a covered basket, will keep
for hours without melting into serious
waste. Strong, cheap tumblers are best
for picnic use. For plates you NAV, If
YOU like. buy the light wooden or Jap
anese paper ones sold for this purpose.
The weight of crockery is q serious OBJ
lection to carrying it on a walking.
party. If You 60 by carriage or boat,
back one hamper with plates. tumblers,
knives, forks, spoons and other needed
utensils. Into this can also 90 table
cloth and napkins. If you use paper
doyleys, yet see that three or four tow
els are put up also. Afew hand-towels
and a cake of soap should not be for
gotten. since fingers usually supersede
forks on such occasions. A little prac-
tice will enable you to stow away all
the articles l have named in , surpris-
ingly small space. Olives and pickles
are acceptable at all cold coIlations.
Sardines are convenient and popular,
also potted meats, such as deviled game
and boned chicken.
The gypsying-party is q variation of
the picnic. and, in my opinion, is an
upon the original plan. |
II is. however, hardly feasible when the
excursion is pedestrian. unless the
camping-ground is selected so near to !
q farmhouse that . large irou-pot or .
tea-kettle can be borrowed. OF course. |
either or both of these are easily car
ried in q wagon. The kettle can be |
hung upon q horizontal pole dashed at
each end TO a tree, or supported upon
forked boughs- A more picturesque
style is the conventional three poles
thrust into the ground and ~inclining
toward n another until they meet
aud r bound together at top. The
kettle is swung from the point Of inter-
over . clear FIRE OF dry sticks,
which has been kept up some time be-
the water is trusted above it. Green
wood and . newiy-kindled fame make
graceful smoke as the back
of the encampment but creo-
sote has not yet been decreed. even by
high art, to be ..quite the thing. you
in tea Should the big pot be
instead Of the kettle, pota-
toes and green corn may be boiled. !