The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-02
THE SUMMER OUTING.
How the Tourist May Spend His
Vacation With Pleasure As Well
As Profit
Clothing Which Will Protect From
the Suns Rays and Not
Be Too Warm.
Tho Norfolk Roughing Jacket-Eat Reg
ularly, Not Too Much, But Enough
Raw Gin and Malaria.

ularly, Not Too Much, But Enough
Raw Gin and Malaria.
WRITTEN FOR THE INDEPENDENT
The season is coming on when holiday
makers will troop from the cities to court
and win the goddess Health in her country
domain. Some of us will take to the woods,
glad to exchange the streets for the groves,
and the rattle of traffic for the songs of the
birds and zephyrs. Others of us will HE to
the imitation cities by tho sea, less
to air ourselves than our new gotten Paris
ian and London toggery. And others will
crawl to the valetudinarian hotels to guzzle
on nasty waters and swap scandals with
the sanity sisterhood.
Better to roam the field for health unbought
Than fee the doctor for nauseons draught;
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work to man to mend.
But we want to know how best to dodge
the doctor, how to keep malarias, liver
troubles, lamenesses and all the evil tribe
of ailments at arms length while we are
beyond pill-shot Of the medical fraternity.
They come in handy at times, that's sure.
Reon in our valises. Here is where we may
pick up some useful points from the man
uals which regulate the various exercises,
marchings, campings. dietings and doctor
ings in the great armies of the world. The
army surgeon is wide-awake fellow. sees
places and conditions, knows just what best
suits man who goes out on health tramps
or trips. We will glance at some of the re-
suits Of this experience.
First, as to clothing. Texture has nothing
to do with protection from the suns rays.
S-~1-, l~~ Nt1S SA4r>
the material the cooler the suit. Wool has
more than double the power to absorb pers
piration than cotton or linen. It is also q
much better protection from cold than
linen or cotton; therefore wooden clothing
is safest aud healthiest. The present writ or
thirty years, making no difference between
midwinter and midsummer in either quality
or quantity. His experience has been in all
respects more enviable than the experiences
of the average man who clothes himself to
crafty conventional faddishness. 1t is wise
for those who camp out to carry wide
strip of flannel for use as cholera belt and
to ward off a chill.
For roughing it. nothing is SO serviceable
as the Norfolk jacket, as it is called, q loose
tunic, buttoned up the front, with band
or belt, worn loose, but which can be
breeches, with course knitted stockings, go
we'll with this jacket and give free and
easy and artistic air to the wearer. Thin
legged Lien with tender susceptibilities
should get their tailor to make them a pair
Of peg-toR trousers, baggy from the waist
ankle as they like. The best head-gear is a
light roomy, wooled-cloth knock
about hat. There are plenty of so-called
health and comfort shoes in the market.
If wise, you will choose pair with thick
soles, plenty Of toe room and fastened with
laces.
The second, perhaps more truly it is the
first thing to consider, is the meat and
drink question. There are two points i'm
portant to keep in view: eat enough to keep
you healthy, don't eat too much to spoil
your health. Commonplace, no doubt, but
often neglected rules. When camping out
or pedestrianizing far from hotel dining
rooms, nothing is easier than to miss q
meal at the right time, or to forget or to
spoil the particular item which your system
when you next strike a square meal you will
make up for the previous deficiency by lay
ing in a surplus, and SURPRISES are mis-
chiefs in pleasing disguise. If you are on
tramp. or camping out in tent or boats, you
will do we'll to pick up few hints from the
there before you. When not very sure where
your next meal is to come from, be sure and
carry some good raisins in your pockets. and
a few nuts, any kind will do. You can do
five hours hard work in any weather on a
few nuts with raisins, the latter stimulate
like wine, the former are food like crackers.
A pot of Liebig, or any extract of beef is
handy standby at pinch. 1t is easy to
get cup of hot water, and by adding your
own meat you get a restorative dish. These
are emergency hints, there is no necessity
to offer suggestions for ordinary dieting.
ing deserves fuller consideration than is
here possible. Whether alcoholic stimu-
lants are advisable in holiday outings each
will decide in his own way. While the
writer is moderate user of beers, he holds
that the less the pedestrian or oarsman re-
else, the better for the health seeker. Still. |
those who use alcohol at home should not |
60 unprovided with bottle of sound spir-
it's to be used incidentally. Beyond this it |
is unwise to 60, as in a chill or when over
exhausted. But good draught of honest |
is a mighty reviver of energy and pleasant
recreation. To some it may be heresy |
to say that on no account should |
water from wells, rivers or even
springs be drunk unboiled. Country |
water, however pure to the eye, is liable |
months afterward, are ascribed to quite the |
wrong causes. Filtration by no means al |
ways purifies it. Let it be boiled first and |
then it matters little whether its flavor is
that of hops. tea, coffee, spirit, red pepper
or the iron kettle. A few lemons are good +
things to have on hand, better than ali the
druggists connections that less successfully
initiate their qualities. They are splendid
revivers, delicacies and regulators. Diar-
rhoea and dy sentery not infrequently pay
their unwelcome compliments to the too
easy going camper-out. Impure water, the
impure air from river vegetation or other
decaying matter may bring it on, and also
improper food or proper food Improperly
eaten. As prevention is better than cure it
should not be beneath sensible PERSONS
to take ordinary care in
watching over his unwonted surroundings.
Malaria is convenient term for inn
purity of the atmosphere, which, when in
hailed by us, sets up general arrangement
of the system. The air of marshy places is
always dangerous and some day our learned
men will perhaps be able to agree upon the
precise way the poison enters our bodies
and what it does when it gets inside. At
present We can only be sure of one great
fact, namely, whatever malaria may be we
are better off without it. Nostrums for its
cure invite our patronage at every street
corner. 1t is not our province to dis
cuss remedies, but it is in order to
quote the following from the travels"
nj IA l :