The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-08-02

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Country Districts the Tired Toiier
Gains Rest and Recuperation.
An agreement having been made
with ones self or few associates, and
the route canyassed by help Of the ad-
mirable wheelmen's maps, an under
standing is TO be made as to luggage,
for IL one insists on taking ten pounds
he will hold back the others who are
worrying along with live. Three is
enough. A nightgown, AN extra shirt,
a handkerchief or two, comb, a TOOTH
brush, IA penknife and some money,
and you have the principal part OF your
outfit. Ii is NOT well to have more, for
a weight that is not appreciate In the
morning is back-breaking by night, aud
one of the charms of tramp trip IS
the doing away with luxures. The ex-
pense OF the tour Is moderate, unless
they who share 1t are of the sort that
must be continually treating and drink
Ing more than they want; or unless
some moneyed man of the party insists
ON lodging In the cities, instead of the
villages, where he chooses the most
expensive hotels and restaurants, and
Is followed into them by his associates
because their false pride does not al
low them TO economlze.
The farmer is not SO hospltable to
wanderers as he used to be. The Amer
lean leisure class, known as tramps,
has injured the chance of pleasant re-
ception for the honest and solvent trav-
eler at his hands, but on a pinch one
can buy a meal or lodging from him.
IL the PED sstrian has a summer before
aim, and overlooked chances for acquir-
ing wealth behind him, he may pay his
way with work, and the farmers are
glad TO find such. They are sore beset
for want of helping hands. Tramps
will not work, and men who can hurry
to the cities and too often become bur-
dens there. ! know one young man
who tramped through the Catskills,
taking them lelsurely, and who, at the
end Of his vacation. had spent about SO.
He had worked for the farmers, had
lived well. and had enjoyed his sum
mer. Here, then, is information for
those well-meaning and wrong-dolng
philanthropists who give money to beg
gars who whine ABOUT their inability to
get work. The work awaits them In
the country. They are In terror lest
they should find II.
Laundering Is not so difficult as 1t
looks to a tourist who Is never In the
same place for two consecutive days.
1t can be done overnight in the tav-
erns II the traveller insists that he must
have his raiment at certain hour. AS
TO clothing, 1t does not matter, so long
as 1t is strong and light. Unless one
expects TO go into society, his old
clothes are good enough. Clothing Of
gray is best, for 1t shows dust less
plainly than cloth that is either very
light or very dark, and the only article
about which one must be particular Is
shoes. These must be strong, plant
and old. 10 walk In shoes that have
not been broken to the foot is rash.
When one is alone a stick from a
wayside sapling is a help. not merely
in getting over the ground, but as sup
plying occupation for otherwise idle
hands and giving sense of companion
ship. 1t is also handy in case some i'll
conditioned cur disputes the right to
the highway. The satchel should be
small, carried from the shoulder by a
strap-not a bag or knapsack to attract
attention and cause the farmers to look
upon you as a drummer.
But, however the weight is lightened
about the body, 1t Is most important
that II be lifted from the heart. A man
who carries his business or his troubles
with him, who allows them to get on
his nerves, who does not sleep for
thinking of them, is veritable kill-joy,
and must be forced to reform. ''Twen-
~ miles a day and no shop" was the
understanding, and good one, with
certain party of walkers. II one is
alone he should carry n book to read
In the tavern after supper, and in bad
weather, only he should not read SO
late as to delay him in his start next
morning, for the best of walk is taken
when the air is sweet and fresh, the
dew has laid the dust, the temperature
is low, the mountains are lifting off
their blankets of vapor and awaking.
TO the man afoot the world is care
free. Why is 1t that so many who
spend their days of duty behind desk
or counter elect to pass their holidays
on hotel verandas In overdressed. loud
talking crowds? Give up the starch
and the ceremony. Forget Mother
Grundy for fortnight. Try the roads
Saturday Evening Post.
She Bars This Combination