The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-18

without fear of the regular tavern so.r
which never knew to hurt anybody 8
you can rinse it before using. and .
toothbrush and a spoonful of yaseIina
to prevent chatting. and gauze rnh.
Der coat, and 1 guess that Is about All
A watch you will sometimes find con.
venlent, but the hours are long in
the mountains and nature keeps oper
house. 1t is one of the delights of a pe3es.
TRAN tour that you do not have to be ans.
where at any given time. You are a rec,,.
lar gypsy. You care little what anyone
thinks of you, for you know that your
doings are none of the worlds business
and you look at the fuss and conventional
ity of the world with easy disdain.
1t is enough for you that somewhere
when you are hungry, you can get sim.
pie meal. and that somewhere too. when
night falls, you can find place to sleen
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 tho
brook prattles and the mountains undergo
their daily mystic change of color. yoar
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 Won
may be housed in a tavern for a rainy dav
and will then be glad of the company az
some good author, until the local codgers
usScinDie III INC oiice ior tnelr evening
smoke and euchre and farm talk and bear
stories. I'm not sure that would recon.
mend summer reading" exclusively
either, because one result of CARVING a
book to improve your mind will be that
you will not read it. That will enable Won
to devote your whole time and thought to
out of doors. as you ought to do. Tho
small volumes of Carlyle and Emerson are
enticing because of their size. and nibble
at them while waiting for your breakfasts
will give you something to reflect on for
whole day. Take Emerson's "Nature.I
for instance, what u book for the hiilsl
And what a setting for the book! Saws
Squeers to his pupil, Spell window"
''W-i-n, win, der, der, winder."
Right. Go and wash it,"
So of Emerson, you might see what
nature is in his view, and then 90 and look
at it. And 1t is a glorious privilege to see
it through eyes like his.
A guide book with maps is a good thinn
unless you are going over familiar ground.
or unless you have read up in advance.
which it is always well 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 every.
where along the way, if you want to read
them-but don't. Be different from what
you are in town. Townsend and l will bs
the losers, because you will not see our
brilliant articles while you are away, bus
you will read them with all the more zes$
when you come back.
Did me ntion a knife? Well, you will
want that: at least, you may want it, and
pencil and notebook weigh nothing.
You will also need moneys little money.
all ways of travel. Ask any tramp if it 10
not so. What you do not need is an over
coat, because your rubber one will do, nor
q dress suit, nor boiled shirts nor smoking
jackets, nor telescope, nor silver-headed
canes Ito be carried head DOWN., nor slip
pers, nor four-in-hand ties, nor revolvers.
l like a rough stick for company. have
an acquaintance who insists on slippers.
He says he has fun enough going to sup
per in slippers to pay for carrying them all
day. Very we'll. He is the Judge of what
he wants. prefer to get into my room
after supper and kick off both shoes and
stockings. shameless deed that some.
times commit on the road, too, in order to
remind myself of boyhood days.
In fact, if you cake advice on the sub.
ject of what is required, you will go
around the land with 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 instead of
getting them washed over night or Of
buying them when they wear out; another
will have 1t that medicines are necessary:
q third recommends rug; a fourth de-
clares for heavy overcoat; fifth ridi-
cules the idea of doing without q pocket
compass a sixth says that you want to
swim, and you do, but he says carry
towel, whereas you know that the sun
and air are good enough driers, and q 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
to collect rocks or bugs or plants, and
therefore that you require hammers, bot
ties, pins, chloroform, manuals and
albums: that artist would have you take
sketch book, pencils, paints. brushes.
q camera and q few pounds Of dry
plates; the fisherman desires you to carry
q rod and the sportsman would name, as
the principal part of your outfit, gun
and ammunition to kill sparrows with.
Please to reflect for a moment that YOU
are neither going to hunt Indians nor dis
cover the North Pole. There will proba.
be five miles from house, and at least
once day you will come to q shop where
you can buy what you need or get such
repairs made as have become necessary.
If it is any consolation to you to have
trunk, you can have one sent along with
you or ahead of you, and you are almost
sure to find it once or twice week. when
you can sit down and pull over your ten
mis- suits and your dancing pumps and
your love letters, and to pack it along on
the stages and rustic expresses will not
cost you more than dollar or two q day.
If your wife goes with you that trunk has
81 IMPLY got to be taken along.
At any hotel worthy of the name, and
still better, at the little taverns where the
landlord feels personal interest in you
and will do anything in reason that he
can to make you comfortable and happy.
you should have no trouble in getting
your clothes washed. Not starched
clothes. but then you have no right to
wear starched clothes. Dust and per.
SEPARATION will do for them in no time.
Tell the landlord that these clothes must
be washed overnight, and furthermore,
that they must be dried. If necessary,
see the young woman who is to do the
washing, and explain TO her that If hung
near q store the objects will dry quicker
than they would in the dew. That may
not have occurred to her, because she has
probably ne YER had a rush order" before.
And speaking of hotels, you will seldom
go apiss if you put up at the village tay-
ems in the regions have spoken Of The
fare Is plain, but everything is right OF
the farm. Things do not swim in grease.
as they do in the South, nor are they jaun-
diced with saleratus, as they used to be in
the West. The beds are clean, and il You
find yourself encamped on one Of those
relics OF q past age, feather mattress, you
can pull it off if the night is warm. The
hotels most to be avoided are the second
best in small towns and the pretentions
things at certain summer resorts that have
not as yet obtained the healthful checks
and stimulants of opposition. People ats
small resort with only one hotel are 1su-
ally ill fed. At places like Niagara, Sara.
toga, Coney Island. the Catskiils and
White Mountains you can get what yo0