Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-19
II YOU ARE GOING
70 CAMP OUT.
you CAN BUILD A LITTLE HOUSE OF
YOUR OWN, OR CAN DWELL IN
THE OLD FASHIONED,
TENT.

September is the month for camping
out. The fish run we'll in the streams
and the game laws allow the hunting
of many wild thing. Nature is at
her sweetest and coolest and the doors
of the full ripening vegetation are in
the air. You can shut your eyes at
any time during the coming twelve
month and scent the forest-if you are
so fortunate as to be allowed the in
diligence of a September camp.
A Brooklyn man started for the
Maine woods not so long ago with his
family and the determination to have a
home. He purchased a few loads Of
timber from the nearest town and
branched off into the forest with two
carpenters. Inside OF three days he had
house. not town house but forest
home and, within a week. he had it
covered with canvas and draped with
the branches OF trees. IL was very pic
turesque.
Baskets of fruit and quarters of west
ern beef found their way to the woods
very often and an obliging woodsman
journeyed to the camp twice q week
with a supply of ice. 1t was camping
out with all comforts of home.
Tenting is the most popular form of
camping and very commodious some of
the tents are. They are light to carry,
easy to pitch and very comfortable to
dwell in. A tent for a person should
be the rule, all the tents being gathered
in one little colony, in the center of
which burns the camp fire all night
This keeps away mosquitoes and
frightens the wild animals without
which no camp is ever complete.
Camping-out things have, OF course,
long been articles of sale by the dealers
in sportsmen's goods, but there never
was a time before when they were Of
ferd in such variety, and of such per-
feet adaptability to their use, as now
OF tents there is great variety, of all
kinds and STYLES and sizes, for from
one or two people up, and II these
tents are not in stock the dealer makes
any of them to order within twenty
four hours.
There are camp stoves and camp
ovens and various camp cooking uten-
sis. Among the new things in this
line are the cooking kits Of very light
metal which are wonders Of lightness
and compactness, such kits are made OF
various sizes, for from two persons up
ward.
An aluminium cooking kit and camp
outfit for six persons occupies when
packed for transportation a space lit
tie. if any. greater than that taken up
by an ordinary water bucket. Such a
kit contains four pals, nesting snugly
together and each provided with a
cover and a bail. There are In the kit
knives and forks and spoons and cups
and plates and coffee pot and frying
pans-eyerything that could be needed
for the convenience and comfort OF the
compers. and everything made so that
it will go inside the innermost Of the
nest of pals.
The frying pans are ingeniously con-
trived to be used with a pole handle.
which is cut at the camp and inserted
In the handle of the frying pan. so that
the cook doesn't have to bend down
over the fire, In the smoke, but can.
with his Iong-handled frying pan. stand
up straight and away from the heat
and manipulate the pan in comfort.
The hunter or fisherman who camps
out can, Of course. build bed for him
self with erotched sticks and poles. or
he can make a bed of bOughs, upon
which to spread his blankets; or he
can buy a sleeping outfit that can be
made ready for use in much less time
that ne could build bed from natures
materials. and that would al the same
time give him, in the midst OF nature,
absolute luxury, besides being. when
not in use. light and portable to a
high degree.
Folding camp beds have long been
made, but they are made nowadays
lighter and TO do up in completer form