The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
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though. The girl considered the sit-
 uation and said:
 | If it's so much fun going camping.
 I'm going camping. too"
 Summer camps exclusively for the
 woman sex have become almost conn mon In some States. In Vermont and New Hampshire abandoned farm houses nave been converted into camp homes. The farm house Is merely the headquarters of the campers. It con. stitutes their dining room and kitchen and their refuge on rainy days. The true campers sleep in tents, not under roofs. In pine forest districts. if the camp can be so near the woods that fresh twigs can be gathered for beds, so much the better. First a. rubber blanket upon the ground. then a thick layer of the pine tw,ss. in place of the conventional. mattress. with blankets for cool nights. and the town dweller sleeps in such slumber as nobody but . child can enjoy in the city.
 There are wealthy society women who take what they call the tent rest cure. Slipping of altogether the arti. ficSal life of the fashionable woman. they take not even a looking glass with them to the wilds in which they disappear. They do their own cooking. so 'tis said-though that sounds too good to be true. They braid their hair down tho back like little girl. wear very short skirts and no corsets. Their food is of the simplest. Part of the cure is that they shall write no let- ters. scarcely even talk for two weeks. If one can imagine anything in the feminine form being silent so long.
 The majority of women wear them- selves out talking" a doctor once said to lady under his care for nerve trou- ble.
 For the woman whose tongue has reduced her to a state of nervous coi- lapse the solitary tent rest cure in the summer woods Is salvation. but all the sex do not need so strict a regimen. The majority of them are just those nice, wholesome, sensible. middle class women and girls who are the flower of their sex and the salt of the earth. To these the gregarious camp affords most pleasure and benefit-sleeping in tents. eating in a common dining room and spending the rest of the time outdoors walking. cycling. golfing. boating and bathing.
 The best way is to have a permanent camp leased from year to year. If there IS no house suitable for the headquar- ters a big board shanty may be built cheaply. The women who most need the summer outing are the ones who work all the rest of the year. many of them earning money Tor themselves and oth- CTS. For the woman teacher, the sten-' ographer. clerk. or bookkeeper. the summer camp will be recreation and a novelty. It would be easy for women to put their spare money together and get the camp. 4 cook and a man to do the heavy work of the camp could be hired. so as to leave the time free. fixed sum per week. ana 1t need not be very great can be fixed on to be paid by each one while she Is at the camp. The girls can go in relays from June till October, arranging the time of each according to convenience.
 Even two weeks of such camp life would work wonders for the average city woman. It must be understood that there shall be only the simplest dress one costume all day. and no social" fuss and feathers at all--if the best results are to be obtained
 MARY GOULD LITTLE.