The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-04-01

| eggs in sawdust, dried fruits by the
pound, cherries, currants, raisins, ap-
| pies, figs, dates and prunes. Here also
were dried vegetables by the quantity,
dried peas, beans, lima beans, squash
and corn. and all other vegetables that
could be- preserved by drying.
A kettle and a spoon and pan con
stituted nearly the whole of the cook
ing outfit which with a bag of salt
and a bag of cornmeal, finished up the
! supplies for the department of the in
| terror.
She had no pepper, for she had heard
| that it was bad for the complexion.
She had no coffee, for it made her
sleepy and brought liver spots to her
face
She had no butter, for she was reduc
| ing and had to cut out grease.
She had no sugar, for sugar put on
flesh, and she wanted to get thin.
! And she had no pastry of any kind,
neither crackers nor indigestible breads,
for she knew that they would hold her
back just so much longer from her self
appointed task of becoming beautiful.
This woman, whose bodyguard was a
ferocious bulldog, went to bed that
| night upon pine twigs, covered by pine
boughs, with a blanket spread over and
under them. And she slept as she had
not slept in weeks. 1T was because 1
was SO tired 1 could not keep awake, ;"
| said she. But that did not explain how
she came to rise early in the morning
as bright as a dollar and as frisky as
d deer You do not feel your tired
muscles in that quiet, bracing atmos
phere," she declared to the bulldog.
This woman's work the second day
was the cutting of pine boughs for a
bed and the splitting of wood for a.
fire. She gathered her twigs, hung her
kettle, and set the fire singing with the
pot boiling above it.
1t was her ambition to walk many
miles. But she had come to take the
complete rest cure, and she took it.
For hours and hours she lay upon the
boughs and studied the swaying trees
overhead. And for hours and hours she
slept in her tent, with the bulldog keep
in watch outside. She took the rest
cure, and for ten days she enjoyed it
every minute of the time.
For ten whole days she did not see
a living soul, and for ten days she
rested her nerves, her mind, and her
brain.
THE majority of women get worn out
talking" her physician had said to
her. You need the complete rest cure
And she took it.
AT the same time, only mile away,
another patient was taking the COM.
plete rest cure. -Four of New York's
most prominent society women had
gone to the mountains in a body, and
all four were tenting, all within pistol
shot of each other, and all enjoying the
complete rest and solitude cure.
Here is the self-made rules which
they laid down and which they en-
forced, each member living up to her
own part of the agreement:
Not to communicate with each other
for ten days.
Not to fire a rifle unless in distress,
the rifle shot being signal for assist
ance.
Not once for ten days to make a per-
feet toilet. but to live in the short skirt
and blouse or sweater all the time
For ten days to speak to nobody and
nothing, except to the bulldog, which
accompanied each woman as a COM
panion, guide and protector.
Each camper out pledged herself to
prepare her own meals.
To keep the fire burning and the ket-
tie bubblinc.
To gather twigs for fresh bed of
boughs every day, all assistance from
the guides to be refused.
Not to read one line or syllable of any
kind in any language whatever
Under no circumstances to commu-
nicate with the outside world.
Not to write letters, to receive let
tiers, to read newspapers, nor to allow
such to be sent to the camp.
For ten whole days not to look in
a looking glass. The hair must be
loosely braided in schoolgirl fashion.
For ten days not to eat no candy,
pastry, nor sweets.
For ten whole days to be quiet, roam
the solitudes, and rest. No reading
no sewing, no card playing, no games
of any kind.
For ten days to try to reduce, if too
stout. To rest if too thin.
For ten days to live the life of a
backwoods hermit and to endeavor in
every way possible to return to the
primitive, wholly healthy state. which
is the delight of the girl who lives in
the country, but seldom of the girl who
lives in the city. A nervous girl of
tie woods is unknown.
For ten days the members lived in
this manner. not seeing each other
though within rifle shot And for ten
days the Tent club was the most con-
tented feminine organization in exis-
tence.
On the last day the guides had lost in
weight except two, who, being too thin,
had taken the pure air lung cure, and
had put on extra flesh. All had i'm
proved in complexion and all were
wonderfully benefited in health and
strength. They had taken the rest cure
and, instead of going to Europe to live
the life of fashionable women in Paris
and London, they had gone into the
wilds and lived the simple life which
brings the glow of health TO the cheek
One of them, the most famous society
woman Of them all, has returned to
the woods for another week of tent
ing.
The tenting out scheme is not a diff
cult one for any woman to carry out.
She needs only the time, the tent, and
the inclination, and to this may be adj
ded the courage.
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