Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-08-07
Saint Mary $ Beacon.
IF WE Go CAMPING.

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apply 70 the summer camping trip,
but it very often does. She is fool
ish woman who when. she has said
within herself, II will go a-camp-
ing" does not first sit down and
count the cost. Not monetary cost
alone, but expended energy in adapt
ing herself to Others ways; and,
should she choose her companions
unwisely, loss Of faith in human
kindness. A man, IL he be fed well,
can overlook small discomforts, but
II Is not SO easy q task for a woman.
Il has been said. IF you would
know your friend, summer and win
ter with him" Let me paraphrase,
If you would know your friend, go
camping with her. /" Wemay as well
make up our mind in the beginning
70 expect TO find little faults Of which
we never dreamed. Incidentally,
our friend may discover some well,
peculiarities-in as.
First, then, 70 be considered. are
the people with whom we 90, pro-
viding, Of course, that it is outside
OF our family that we look for com
panions. We put up with the lido
syncrasies Of our own folks as mat
ter Of habit. There are threetvpes
whom IL would be well TO omit.
The woman. who always says just
what she thinks:
Emma, you are just spelling that
child. I'll be glad when he is old
enough 10 go 10 school; guess he
will get some OF the kinks taken out
Of him then. You see I'm saying it
right to you'll don Z go behind your
back 10 say it. F"
What made you have your hair
cut? Yon had snch pretty hair, and
you don't look q bit well with it
short"
when / got my hat. the milliner
said they weren't wearing black and
white. this year. -
This, when herfriend has shown,
with pardonable pride, a pretty Gre
alton Of white straw and black lace.
The officious woman. (Your con
science is sure to give you a twinge
for wishing her hanged. because OF
her real Kindness OF motive.)
II ran in to tell you that If you
didn't pull down your parlor cur
tains, the sun would spoil your car
pet"
Have you seen Mrs. Long lately?
Well, she looks terriblel She is
working herself TO death I'm go
ing over some day and tell her that
IL she doesn't have to work like that,
IL is sin for her to do il. :"
Are them cabbages set out there?
Why, they re too close to amount to
anything. They ought to be foot
and half apart
The uncharitable woman:
She sent some peaches over to
me, and | wondered what she ex-
pected me to send back for them.
Do you know, felt all the time as
il that girl wasn't what she ought to
be.
They say he was seen coming
out OF a saloon, and they said he
couldn't walk straight, so, of course,
he was drunk. I've heard he gam
bles dreadfully.
Isn't it a shame for those Smith
girls to carry on the way they do :?
You haven't heard ? Why, they
etc., etc.
These are three, and verify there
is another-the woman who pours
out to you all her troubles. and in
forms you of her husbands short
conings, and expiates on her child
ren's abilities. With these four, we
win not go camping.
So much for the feminine part of
our company. Now for the men. OF
course there must be men. Girls
may talk as much as they please
about the pleasures Of life with the
men left out, but they know, and so
do the folks who hear them, that life
isn't worth living with no men
around. II we can have one a piece.
SO much the better, but IL there be
only one, he must be in love with all
Of US impartially, or with none OF us.
You can readily see why.
Now, our companions are chosen,
and we win set ourselves to learn
three rules for our guidance in good
conduct:
i will not growl because I have
not oil the conyeniences of home. /"
Il will not expect my friends TO
think exactly as do ON all points. "
Il win try to practice the Golden
Rule, and to find some good in what |
ever happens.
Then IL the coffee be muddy. the |
meat pork when we wanted quail. or |
the tent blown down, we are forti- |
fed. and unruified.
We will dress COMFORTABLY. which