St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-05
CAMPING AT WHITE BEAR.

One of the great beauties of Minnesota Is
It's lakes Almost every farmer has nice
little lake on his farm, where great. juicy, fat
bullfrogs sit on lily pads and warbe at the
man in the moon; where people go in swim
ming and get poisoned by the graceful sea
weeds; where tall brunette cattals grow
(ull the farmers daughter gets her small
brother to cut them and puts them In jars In
the parlor; i'm few months they dry up and
fly all over everything when you don't know
they're dry and touch them, but before that
they look pretty); where man can fish all
day and think up long string OF false pisca
torial narratives: where there is mud and
water In short. Then there are some lakes
where they have summer cottages and hotel
bills and hops. You wear all kinds of
clothes. and sometimes it is cold and there's
no fire, except in crate.
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Mnnetonka is n famous summer resort.
and so is White Bear. Nearly every comedian
that comes to st. Paul hns, beside his gag on
Minneapolis. bright witty little verselet on
White Bear. II always goes. for St Paul
people are so fond of local hits they'd burst
into peals of ripping laughter II the
comedian rected "A few pages of the UNI
ulllhEtu AtlIttNpIg w bNhi - ASha'S -
charming spot-severnl charming spots, in
fact. Most of the sylvan solitude is cat up
into lots, but the place is really desirable
one TO spend n summer vacation and fourteen
dollars week in. There are pretty girls,
and ilirtations. and mosquitoes. and poison
oak, aud yacht races and every other kind OF
environment I have heard people say
there were too many environments. / know
II man who went out walking with
girl from Marshall avenue one evening at
White Bear and he said he never saw SO
many entirely useless environments in the
way of little platonic tete .a-tete before in
all his life.
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Just about once year our family gets
tired of the narrowing life of city and
wants to camp out. Last year we went to
White Bear IL wasn't an entirely family af-
fair. There was my friend Name and her
cousin Gus. nndGuss cousin Sarah, and Guss
cousin Sarhh's little boy, Freddie, aud two
people who hadn't been married but six
weeks, and l. Gus went out TO the lake one
afternoon and chose location and n tent
and hired Il man aud wagon to take the
tent ana some baggage to the location.
Name and were the last of the party to AR
rive. Gus met us at White Bear. He had Il
red silk chain scarf that he won at progress
siyc euchre party one winter tied aroudd the
northern boundary of his trousers. II looked
just like Il sash II you didn't know what it
was lie had white flannel shirt that was
of II naturally timid disposition. II shrank
from water as much as INDEPENDENTLY in
clined dog Gus had finally TO give IL TO
Freddie lie had n neatly fitting white straw
hat and warm smile of welcome.
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The place where we campcd is about four
miles from White Bear, straight away by
water. Gus took us In boat. Name Is par
ticularly fond OF the water. Her father was
II Baptist clergyman, and her uncle milk
man. She began to recitc poem the elocu-
ton class at the high school always practices
on for freedom of tone. We rowed along
close beside n steamer whose lofty prov cleft
the surging foam. Name rected, ~ love
oh, how | love to ride on the fresh, free,
foaming, bursting tide" just then the tide
I'm the wake Of the steamboat burst o little to
oblige her, ana the foamy water, with ilshy
accent. rushed into the boat. II took Name
directly on her cervicai vertebrp, aud, obef
ing the law of gravity, descended. Name
had on red and white striped blazer, and
when Gus wrung IL out for her the red and
mingled in n truly bizarre manner, and made
her look like strawberry In cream, The
blazer shrunk too. Gus sash left CORY
track around his waist, ana baied the boat
out.
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Gus is an admirer of the beauties OF nat
ure. one of them was staying ut White Bear,
aud he got so occupied in admiring her that
he forgot TO order any particular utensils, so
the tents were not furnished luxurously. In
fact, after we had eaten lunch-wc had four
dozen hard-boicd eggs, but we fed them to
the innocent fishes as soon rs we had taken
olfactory cognizaucc of their proximty-we
were fain to spread some quilts on the bill
lowy bosom of mother earth, and seek rest.
1t didn't make any difference whether we
were fain or motive had to do it, anyway.
We-Mame and Gus cousin Sarah and little
Freddie and the bride and I-slept crosswisc
of the quilts The billowy bosom of mother
earth is very well to talk about, bat prefer
the mellow side of pine board any time.
There were miniature Alps aud twigs and
rocks and everything else under those quilts.
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A tempest arose in the midst of the night.
We had to get up and hold the tent. Gus had
our tent located SO all the water that fell for
nine blocks ran into IL. It was MS hot MS n
political caucus, and the rage of the elements
was something fearful 60 witness. The bride
began to cry. and heard Gus Cousin Sarah
say darn quite distinctly when she found
ono of her shoes full of water. Name en-.
couraged us all 10 be brave when some mis-
guided garter snake happened across her foot.
She let go of the tent and rushed out into the
depth of the night. Gus aud the brides
husband came out OF their hut and Gus
wrung Names blazer out again. Through
excitement, however, he left Name in It at
the time
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How the rest Of the night was spent have
not the least power TO tell. IL lasted nine
weeks. Tile next morning went for walk.
walked 20 Mahtomedi. just rs | was
climbing into the train for town saw Gus
and Name coming from one direction and
the rest of the party from another. They all
felt obliged to return TO town ut once.
M n rUN