The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-18

vances, and run around swaddled in
weaters on hot days, and so they start
off sorry and tired. Better stay at home
if you can't walk without that 1t is ali
well enough for people who are going &c
trot around a tan bark track to try ia
beat some other people, but that is not
walking; that is work. The object of a
pedestrian tour, I take it, IL to enjoy
yourself
Pack the smallest grip in the house, or,
if there is none small enough, buy one,
and do not pack much into it-remember
that, if you do not remember anything
else, that / am going to tell you. Do not
carry load. Don't take knapsack; it
is awkward, immovable, cuts your
shoulders, is conspicuous and out OF date.
| Get the smallest satchel that is made,
almost, and in it bestow a night shirt
don't tell me that you don't wear one,
| because you must in this trip, otherwise
| your clothes can never get aired, for they
should hang at the window all night
and comb, piece of soap in tin box,
unless you are without fear of the regular
SOAP, L ACNCI Mic" w hoi
anybody, as you can rinse it before using,
and toothbr and spoonful of vase
line to prevent chatting, and a gauze rub
Der coat, and l guess that is about all.
A watch you will sometimes find conven-
lent, but the hours are long in the noun
tains and nature keeps open house. 1t is
one of the delights of pedestrian tour
that you do not have to be anywhere at
any given time. You are regular gypsy.
You care little what anyone thinks of
you, for you know that your doinss are
none of the worlds business, and you
look at the fuss and conventionality of
the world with easy disdain.
1t is enough for you that somewhere,
when you are hungry, you can get .
single meal, and that somewhere, too,
when night falls, you can find place to
sleep. The rest of the time, while the
clouds roll, and the wind blows, and the
trees toss. and the sun shines, and the
birds sing. and the brook prattles, and
the mountains undergo their daily mys-
tic change of color, your only concern Is
to be alive, and you feel very much that
way
Oh, forgot to say that you will want
book.
You will not read much in It, but you
may be housed in q tavern for a rainy
day, and will then be glad of the COM
pany of some good author until the local
dodgers assemble in the "office" for
their evening smoke, and euchre, and
farm talk, and bear stories. I'm no:
reading" exclusively either, because one
result of carrying a book to improve
your mind will be that you will not read
it. That will enable you to spend your
whole time and thought out of doors, as
you ought to do. The small volumes of
cause Of their size, and nibble at them
while waiting for your breakfast will give
you something to reflect on for a whole
day. Take Emerson's Mature" for in
stance, what a book for the hillsl AND
what . setting for tho book Says
Squeers to his pupil, "Spell window"
"W-i-n, win, der, der, winder."
Fright. Go and wash it."
So of Emerson, you might SEQ what
nature is in his view, and then go and
look at it. And it is q glorious privilege
to see it through eyes like his.
A guide book with maps is good thin g
unles 'ou are going over familiar ground,
or unless you have read up in advance.
which it is always we'll to do. and that,
with your pocket volume, will give you
all the literature you require. You will
find daily papers from the great cities
read them-but don't. Be different from
what you are in town. Townsend and I
will be the losers, because you will not
see our brilliant articles while you are
away, but you will read them with all
the more zest when you come back.
Did I mention knifea Well, you will
want that: at least you may want it. and
a pencil and note book weigh nothing.
You will also need money! little money,
because pedestrianism is the cheapest of
all the ways Of travel. Ask any tramp if
it is not so. What you do not need is an
overcoat, because your rubber one will do,
nor dress suit, nor boiled shirts, nor
smoking jacket, nor q telescope, nor
silver headed canes Ito be carried head
DOWN, nor slippers, nor fourth had ties,
nor revolvers. / like rough sticktfor
company. l have an acquain lance who
insists on slippers. He says he has fun
enough going to supper in slippers to pay
for carrying them all day. Very well.
He is the judge of what he wants. pre-
fer to get into my room after supper and
kick off both shoes and stockings, shame
less deed that | sometimes commit on the
road, too, in order to remind myself of
boyhood days.
ject of what is required, you will go
around the land with a trunk, so you
will do better to take my advice and
carry nothing to speak of. One will say
you must carry change OF clothes in
stead of getting them washed over night
or of buying them when they wear out;
another will have it that medicines are
necessary; a third recommends rug; a
fourth declares for heavy overcoat; a
fifth ridicules the idea of doing without a
pocket compass; sixth says that you
want to swim, and you do but ne saws
carry towel, whereas you know that the
sun and air are good enough driers. and
wet cloth in your bag is not; the tired
man is sure that you need to take liquor;
the scientific sharp says that you might
want 10 collect rocks or bugs or plants,
and therefore that You require hammers,
bottles, pins, chloroform, manuals and
albums; that artist would have you take
a sketch book, pencils, paints, brushes,
a camera and 2 few pounds of dry
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