Connecticut western news., 1892-11-10
rns PASSION FOR CAMPING OUT.
Hsw the Primitive Savage Instinct in
 Man Is Seen in His Outings.

Hsw the Primitive Savage Instinct in
 Man Is Seen in His Outings-
 When man spends million or more of dollars in building 8 house for him. self and his family he reaches the high est remove from his primitive ancestors, who knew no better shelter than a cave, . hut or Q tent. Nevertheless, in spite of all our civilization, the underlying primitive longing for freer life and a purer air, green fields and the babble of brooks is present in the mind of every one who does business in great cities.
 The crowds that take their outings in the parks provided by different mupici palities for the families of those who can only leave in the heat of the sum- mar their sweltering homes for few hours, or at most day, illustrate the same primitive instinct. 1t declares it. self also in the suburban cottages that are to be found among our hills and in th&village communities that are spring ing up on every side. It finds even a stronger primitive expression in those who leave the city to camp out for some weeks or months in tents.
 It brings them nearer to the old pre- historic and Biblical life, and it enables them to hold close communion with na- ture, to feel the soft yielding of the grass and to stand face to face if not with "the forest primeval, yet with woods where it is pleasant to wander among their cool, green hooks and their fickering lights and shadows. It is an axiom that there is in all of us some re- mains of the savage-in the English man, who, during his sojourn in the country, wants ito go out and kill something" and in the American in the Adirondacks, half of whose delight in that primitive wilderness is the oppor- tunity 1t offers him for hunting and hshing.
 There is as little doubt of the health fulness of "camping out" as of it's cheap ness. Many of these campers" are not actuated by those religious feelings which draw large bodies of men and women together at the recurrence of the summer season. They have been led into it by the freedom of an open air hfe-the old primitive instinct-and by the ease of an existence reduced to a cooking stove, g few chairs and the necessary beds. The charm of camping out amid grass and trees consists in bringing down the wants of life to their first principles, modified only by the civiliz- ing influence of the age in which we live. Its further charm is in it's con- trasts and simplicity when compared with the complex exactions of cities Thousands of things that were luxuries to the older generation have become the necessities of their children. That is one reason why tent life around Baltimore has not died out since the old Wesleyan times, but remains a survival of the Methodist camp meeting with notifications. Other cities may offer attractions more novel, but with us the campers say the love of the can vas village is increasing. There are thousands who are making them their summer homes, some during the month of August only, and many from the first of July to the last of September.
 The primitive instinct is manifest in this kind of life, although our people are no longer cave dwellers or builders of rude huts, and instead of the tents of skins of the Cloths and Huns, or the camel's hair tents of the Bedouins, they shelter themselves beneath the cotton duck of the present day.-Baltimors American.