The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-22
WOMEN IN MAINE WOODS.
1t Is Fad With Some to Go in
After the big Game.
Lewiston, Me-. Journal.
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Once again the old guides are snorting
In disdain. Not only are the fair hunts
women fiock!ng. into the woods with their
husbands and their fathers. but there are
several parties up on the Penobscot waters
that are made up wholly of feminine
shootlsts.
Though women have been hunting in the
state each fall With good success for the
pas. ten years, women have nor before
this ventured IN unless with male escort
These women who are stopping up beyond
the Depsiconneag dead water are some
very self-reiiant women from Massachu-
sets. They work In some OF the stores
in a populous city, and being spinsters de-
cided to paddle their own canoe this season.
One or two reliable guides accompany them
and according TO all reports they are doing
extremely well. One of them youchsafed
that they were doing. "a blessed sight bet
ter than If they had half a dozen men tag
ging them around 10 see that they didn't
wet their feet or blow their heads off with
their rifles"
But" remarks old Jed Hawkes.. there
won't be any spruce gum left in that neigh
borhood. Lord, how those women are
yanking. They say they have chewed a
great deal Of gum In their lives, but that
they never knew what the clear quiz was
til they came down here into the state OF
going 10 take back all they can dig buy.
or beg to the city. Even the tall trees
can't hide their big Jumps away from these
women. Three of them wear boomers and
anything. Those women are safe enough.
1t is said that half the parties that have
gone into the Moosehead region this fall
have had women as members.
You see. the women have for 50 many
years heard their male friends tell Of the
eeestatic delights OF hunting In the ZIG
Maine woods that their feminine curiosity
has been excited, and there has been Il
ver.tabie clamor 10 be allowed 10 go IN.
Once in while there is one woman VINO
finds the trip enough 10 last her for a life
- a a nta x
pected IL would be. The woods may be
good enough for the men, but as for her.
she prefers the boulevard and the shopping
district
Then there are other women who meet
the most ferocious weather the Maine
woods have 70 furnish; who are drenched
every other day To the skin. and who get
dumped out of canoe two or three times
just by way Of variety. These women go
home and tell all the folks that they have
had just the most lovely time, and that
they are all Impotence for the year - roll
around. So that they may 90 again. Those
are the kind Of heroInes that can extract
fun from every nishap. They are the oniy
kind that should tackle the dubious Pleas
ures OF the Maine woods. For that class
and X Is an extensive one-that enjoys
roush!ng Il, there Is no enjoyment in ali
the world like the autumn forest. But the
person who goes in Tor the first time with
OUT proper conception Of the nature OF the
fun will be supremacy misera bic himself,
or herself and wifi make al the folks
around more miserable Still
There is one thing IN say about the
women who have been coming 70 the Maine
woods for the last ten years. Not one has
Vet shot one q the guides for a bear or her
husband for a deer. The wnn1smen say
that when the women STe out hunting taey
are very cautious with all a WOYnang n
hercnt fear that something viii hi pps n
and that. no matter how unsk i, the
woman may be in the use % firearms the
guides are never apprchensve OF accidents.
IL Is the imPetuo9ia veteran WHO blows oil
bis own or some one eIse's head.