Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-01
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CAMPING m YELLOWSTONE
PARK.
The Fan and Its Lessons,

PARK.
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Which shall 1t be. the transportation
company with fine hotels and lots of
style, stationary camp life with Its
semi-luxuriousness, OF out and out
'roughing it, in the movable camps ?
This was the all-important question on
entering Yellowstone Park. Miss Sun
bonnet just loved fine hotels" and
moaned dejectedly over wearing old
clothes; Madam Sunbonnet had had
little experience In camping out and
was troubled with doubts; Mrs. Sun
bonnet never did care for style, no.
how, never had roughed 1t, and
thought it would be great fun. Finally
1t was decided to go in for fun and ex-
perience and live to put on style am
other day. All the folderols and rib
bons were left behind, old clothes We're
donned, sunbonnets tied on In hard
knot and away went three DANES In
quest Of experience. They got it..
The small matter of clothes was all
forgotten as the carriage rolled along
the beautiful mountain way toward the
first camp. Strange little houses of logs
with mud roofs We're passed, telling of
lonely home life, that made girl ex-
claim, II would have to love a man an
awful lot to live like that!" Twice, on
the way, was seen a lonelier abiding
place, that saddest of all spots, the
mountain burying ground-a tiny Gods
acre with Its story of somebody's dear
ones lying down to the sleep that knows
~
sweet the thought that though far from
home we are never far from the love
and care of the Infinite Father!
Nowhere can the flower lover find
such wild flowers as are found on these
mountain highways. Such host of
strange faces nodded their greetings to
1.-THE amazed sunbonnets above them; yet
our Marshalltown girl gathered but q
wild rose to wear from all this floral
wealth Of a strange land, and we Won
dered was she homesick or Just loyal
TO her state emblem?
That first glimpse Of camp life, will
we ever forget it? Two miles beyond
the hot springs. high on the mountain
4 side, we made our first abiding place.
All was hustle and confusion. Tents
q going up, horses led to shady places and
fed from queer canvas pals hung over
their noses. Covered wagons drawn by
six horses brought camp supplies.
Horses laundering, men shouting.
whips cracking made music for a time.
Soon little city of tents appeared and
!. preparations for supper We're rushing
lalong. From the mountain side three
sunbonnets looked on, bit obviously
lit must be confessed, wondering II tent
ling out was not nicer in song than In
reality. Slowly darkness fell upon the
scene and glowing campfire called al
within it's generous warmth and cheer
to make acquaintance and hear stories
lof the charms of roughing 1t. A little
tent with canvas carpet and good
. clean mattresses. comforts and blan-
Ikets sheltered the sunbonnets WITH
laughter and awkwardness preparation:
were made for the sleep that will sure
lily never come in so strange place
and the stiffness of the mountain soil
ltude fell over ALL The morning sun
shine lifted three heads from lowly Pill
lows and three voices exclaimed, "Di'
you ever sleep so good in all your life!
. Then with yawn comes the cry. tn
I Hook at something! Every face an,
every article in the tent was thickl
coated with dust; but the grandeur o
! mountain scenery in the dawning OF
- new day of strange experience heipe
. all to forget this small discomfort tina
:. 1.-THE brush broom soon remedied.
George Eliot says life is a learning
how to do without things" and cam
life is certainly the place to learn to d
without things and to learn to max
the best of all situations. 1t Is anus
ing to see how the most flnicky mortal
!. can learn to accept the inevitable. IN
second night in camp three sunbonnet
/. |had a regular house cleaning before go
ling to bed At the next camp thing
: were given little shake, and at tn
next camp everything was very com
PORTABLE, with dust an inch thick, an
:. toward the last it did not matter eve
LIE the beds were not made. All We're lik
the African girl brought to this countr
i. land civilized, then sent back as mis-
4. Isionary. In three months time she wa
: naked savage again. In three month
Of camping life our sunbonnets woul
actually be enjoying dirty faces an
4. hands.
A. One morning the tourists came OF
=. from their tents to find the groun
white with frost and roaring camr
fire was very welcome to numb finger
~ Every one felt like moving briskly an
i. the ladies of venturesome natures toe
n. few lessons in telling trees, THROWN
- the lariat and riding horses cowbe
n fashion before breaking camp. 1t W.
at this camp that we saw a Christia
Science horse. When the horses a
a. turned loose for the night it is custom
n. airy to put hobbies on the fore feet
n. leather bands chained together III
=, u. handcuffs-so the horse can only hobb
about and not get very far away ]
n. the horses We're embarrassed one Mig
n n one of them Immediately began to ho
n BILE, and no amount of driving or viii
n lping could make that horse go. He w;
- hobbled in his mind and just could n
- walk.
Z. There were no monotonous hours
the city of tents Sometimes when n
n sightseeing visit was paid to neig
N thorinp CampS where almost inyar ria b