Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-11
N good shape, it is A-No. L. There
s another one made, but not in use
(To be continued.)
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

| sighed for heaven, where she could
do nothing for ever and ever, only
breathed the prayer of all mortals. This
do nothing period is the aim of and ent
sought by every young man property
Americanized by his parents DR.. Os-
Ter fixes the period of sixty years of
age, and to make it thoroughly sue
cessful chloroforms the individual. And
yet none of US really desire inactivity
at any age, more than does the convict
In the penitentiary. Roosevelt's vaca-
ton in the mountains was.far from be-.
ing do nothing set of days. And SO
with our vacations, to be remembered as
pleasant they must be those of action.
To be really invigorating and helpful
as rule the individual on vacation
must have a period of activity both
mental and physical, as nearly the OPP
posite of regular daily life, as possible
to obtain.
1t all depends on habit. education
and environments, what we eat, drink
and wear An old man of the writer's
acquaintance has to wear stiff cuffs
while he runs the lawn mower After
whiting one pair by perspiration, he has
bSSil NiiSNI W 81 iilto lllC IiOuSC tliiG
put on a clean, stiff1y starched pair of
cuffs before he could finish the
lawn. This habit business was
we'll Illustrated by some re-
marks of hunter and trapper
who once acted as host for the writer.
1t seems that tenderfoot had recent
ly stayed few days in his cabin, and
to do the correct thing the owner of
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would like for breakfast ooh. just
little fruit, some breakfast food and
cup of Coffee was the reply. And
this trapper laughed for week over
this kind of a breakfast. He told the
story to every newcomer as the joke
of the season. The idea of man eat
ing such stuff and calling it breakfast!
Why full-grown man needed some
thing filling something that'll stick
to your ribs" He wanted some fried
venison, some boiled potatoes, some
slapjacks and a bowl of strong tea. And
this hunter had that breakfast and
enjoyed eating these articles 365 days
in a year.
And this same man had his ideas Of
living, otherwise. Should think you
would get lonely out here in the
woods" When it comes night there
isn't human being within ten miles
of you" Suppose you are taken sick
out here all alone, what'll you do?" To
all questions was statement "a man
living as near and with nature didn't
get SICK Tho he'd rather be alone
than have lot of chattering women
around. Even logging camp con-
tanned too much society. The men got
drunk every time they came
to town and he had to stand their
foolishness on their return. They swore
and cursed and told obscene stories.
and he escaped all that by being alone.
Didn't take a daily or weekly paper
because they were full of lies. Had his
doubts about this Japanese and Rus
sian war amounting to much. The
papers lied so. And yet this trapper
shaved himself every day, wore clean
clothes that he washed himself and
took much pride in his we'll oiled shoes.
His cabin was "as neat as wax" and
he had a screen door to keep out the
MOSQUITOES. After supper was over, he
would sit out in front of his log cabin
light his pipe and "just think" till bed
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Six hours ride from that cabin
brought the writer to fashionable
lake resort. On the hotel porch was
"a swell from Chicago" White duck
suit. patent leather shoes, fancy neg
lige shirt sleeves rolled up to his ell
bows and the center of half dozen
muslin arrayed, nice girls, also from
Chicago His conversation and the
talk of his young lady companions,
ould have been Greek to our trapper
friend in his cabin hundred miles
away. It was almost unintelligible to
this scribe. For two hours this party
Having a good time. actually did not
utter one sensible word or sentence.
They lived, moved and had being in
world the hunter had never heard OF,
much less read of. Only the writer
has had glimpses of it. This scribe
understood something
about noble" bridge" "golf." and |
week end parties. But the joke that
caused screams of laughter. the two
lines of the catchy song they all joined
in. the slang they used, we'll, the writ
or was more at home with the trapner
Curious. isn't it, how many worls
people live in, and how small they all
are. And all this doesn't prove but
what the trapper and the society
Young man, have Just as good time
as YOU do, neighbor, in the world you
i've in.
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