The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-13

T>HE CAMPERS at the Country club
have pitched their annual tent,
or tents. 1t is a sort of Glorihed
u camping, for steward Jacob ana
his family look after all the sor-
did details Of cooking, tidying up etc.
The Housekeeping or tcntkeepins, as
you may call It, is so Immaculate that
the campers are proud to invite the
inspection Of guests, and truly the lit
tie camp among the pines at the en-
trance of the upper links is very neat
and picturesque, with its white tents
and gay-colored hammocks.
There is an absence of the detail
which makes up Buzzacott outht for
the soldier boy, when the stove by day
may he used as a refrigerator by
night, and the homely but friendly
stepladder Is converted into wash
tub, and the article masquerading as a
harmless Camp-chair is in reality
set Of carving tools, and the tent itself
Is capable of being converted into
spotless white trousers with n board
for ironing the same into correct
creases Now, I may he a trife mix
ed as to some of these details, but
the idea is right in the main, for i
saw a Buzzacott combination the other
day. but the miraculous possibilities
of the apparatus made my head buzz.
The Country club campers are ham,
rered by no such limitations in their
outing Their tents contain little white
beds, looking exactly like the cribs
they must have occupied when they
were all innocent, pretty babies, for
there is an unpretentious canopy over
each, which is discreetly draped with
mosquito netting.
1t is a wonder that they haven't
made some effort to exterminate the
mosquitoes in the vicinity of the
Country club. They aren't SO terribly
troublesome, but that is all the more
reason why they could easily be de-
stroyed, as they do not exist in very
large numbers. The little pests are
always the penalty OF having stagnont
water in the vicinity. They are born
within a few hundred yards of the spot
where they begin their depredations,
and as they are continually Matching
during the warm season, a great many
are released from very small pool
II care were taken in the spring ia
cover with oil the little stream back
OF the camp. which is almost totally
dry in hot weather, the many genera
tions of Mr.. Mosquito could be appre-
cably diminished. The troublesome
insect in his amphibous stage is COM
PEELED to come to the surface of the
water every few minutes to breathe
The oil interferes most emphatically
with his intentions, and he doesn't live
TO sing or sting. 1t is an easier pro
cess than to smite him one at time
when you are suffering with pain anc
rage, and it isn't so trying TO thc
nerves.
Porch parties are the pleasantes
fads of the hour A porch part!
doesn't necessttate occupancy of tn
porch 10 the utter exclusion of tn,
house, but it does mean a nine oclocl
gathering in attire unconventional anC
with entertainment amusing, if no
violently intellectual. The porch gir
up-to-date has had far better tim
and more men in her train than he
sister who has hied away to the sea
shore. with all the clothes the famil,
finances could stand and the prospec
tive ration of Is to ! as regards girl
and escorts. An interesting way to af
ford entertainment for a porch part,
everybody present must do somH,nln
that he or she can't do. The SouLI
lady who sings divinely must not b
allowed to sing, bnt must make a po
litical speech. The man who can re
cite funny dialect stories must give
poem of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, wit
the proper mixture of intensity an
idiocy. The man who can't sing |
made TO sing "Loch Lomond' TIL
girl whose one piece" is The Ros
ary," with correct intonations of pa
thos, must be made to sing coon sons
and the man who is a brilliant orato
must have his role laid out for hir
in bear dance.
Two young ladies have made a grea
hit in small informal porch parties h
their duets. They don't sing them, br
instead recite in unison nonsens
rhymes, such as:
There was fair maid of Gloucester
Whose young man thought he ha
loucester,"
ETC., etc. The amount of popularit