Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-19
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Out of Town.
'Bangor News.)

Iacur,,int Tor one 10 UecOnl5
in Nm ~ u .t,.,J Just how much one is good for
Ihuman hmssIe with the world Though
front of o,hss who parade themselves in
walks nf ~, human beings on the side
Tho 81. oui cities. boast that they are
thi. nenS OIL all the ages as soon as
reduced 70 ~ advancement and culture is
of 1aoo v a. an equation. and the culture
is I'D eais ago plus the algcbric *
this .''s IN, 10 equal the culture OF today
in the sum total OF bnmam a .ti ''I Rn
,ore one can learn Just what he is good
lonstr,taa ~, actor IN life one must dem
ionseno IT, oneself what he can do. In
| - nv ietl man is ne who can ad-
Just himself to any surrounding AMI
fg om1 contehtment. if not happiness;
objectionable ~ ' ~ ho'
Anu tha b.st time and place for one
I'm innn II ,,,e mental and physical depth is
n, '"' ~ "nioI;S the woods and brooks. 1t
NAY DE hinil iatins for a few purse
1Loud ana brain proud persons to confess
nc TACT. but really the best among us IS
lOur hnaste an, a,, l" the primevai we man
| '"dSteu ditruiSm is something whit |
We Keep IN stock, like canned salmon ana
ftcen peas. To he fed ont when We bav..
"oinhany at our housc-whcn our rich
| aunt from the city calls to max. us 4,
visit. or when the new minister drons il,
| 10 take tea with us after seeing M; bIv
.nree boxes of fine New Jersey straw
land by our lonesome'' we are often com,
| monpiace and usually duh ami unirter-
cst est, worse than this. we selfish
ana SraSpinS and prone to let others do
|M9Ik. Winch We should perform our
s selves MANY of us wear red flannel I'M
oefSnlrts and give the impression that
our sacred bodies We keen Cuban
cigars. worth % cents apiece, in the box
on the shelf in the smoking room, hlt
where we ~h want to have a good smoke
WHere NOBODY WIFI see us we take Il Il. r.
pipe and hide away among the shrubberv
near the me fence. SO If anybody chances
emitted from our pipe, that suspicious
person will credit the cffluvia to the very
suddtn and unaSpiring neiehbor who sits
on ms front piazza in his shirt sleeves
dressed women ride by in expensive au
| tomohiles Most of us Terlize What IS fit
| ing Tor us to do and strive vigorously to
| convey the impression that We are as
| good rs we ought to be, but still in the
eyes of justice there is a yawnirg hiatus
| ton.
| To Grass and common men who would
| seem refined ara heroic Il brief outing
| IN June comes as an eye-Opener. Get
away to an abandoned farm house or
| 10 the lee side of Il big boulder, taking
| along some blankets. an axe, IL side of
bacon. small bag of meal and IA few
other articles to fill in. and then see
| mead Enthusiastically carved can do in the
| way of corkscrewing comfort from the
Wilds. The food should be of the sim
pleSt and toughest sorts. for the labor of
making shelter from bOuGhs and banks,
| and the perplexity of constructing i
| bunk to sleep upon, and d fireplace for
| the warming of the airy homes on cold
| nights. and the devices for keeping mos
| uuitocs away by night and of warding
black flies off by day-thesc small details
will add wonderfully to ones appetite
and Cause him to eat ravenousy from
food he would never think of ordering at
a hotel table. The chief charm in making
a home from dead leaves and sticks and
hougEs lies in the realization that the
| more one works to gain a semblance of
comfort. the more weary one grows and
therefore the less comfort he will need.
In a big publishing house in Philade!-
tive BOOK. Which sells for SO net 'a at the
tried and approved recipes for mixing
sleeping draughts and powders and for
| compounding apretizinS "bitters," and
still in all those 200 pages of fine print
| there is nothing known to the doctors or
druggists that can compel one to eat and
sleep so heartily as this amateur training
at home making and getting a living
where the uneducated mosquitoes would
| As soon draw blood from a millionaire as
from Il tramp. And when one can sleep
without morphine compounds and can eat
without cunp;ngly devised cocktails. one
has won the hardest part of the fight.
1t is best for the nan who wishes to
ind himself on such an outing to go
alone. and to take no book of any kind
| reason why Robinson Crusoe" is tho
| most delightful story of adventure that
was ever written is because the canting
| family scapeSrace took no books with
him when he landed upon that most
| wonderful island Having no books to
| read. he did things. raising grain and
| the "Od Harry" and becoming SO alb
Sorbed in his simple duties that he could
not fail to interest everybody, Now if
| the lone adventurer had concealed ono of
| the Presidents messages in his shirt
pocket when he vcnturcd ashore from
that doomed ship. the chances are that he
would have become so absorbed in the
| railroad rebate problem, or in the deSir
| ability Of constructing battleshps. that
| he would have omitted to save the guns
and powder that were required to shoot
birds. and would have forgotten to bring
his barley ashore before the ship went to
pieces; and thus would have naturally
SarVed to death and deprived the world
| of what has been 4 great delight for
many years.
The reason for going alone is to teach
one the ability to SHIFT for himself and
to give himself reliance. AWAY out i'm
| Arabia. more than 1000 years ago there
| lived handsome and lazy young rascal
| whose name was Mahomct. who had
conviction that he could get good living
by marrying a rich widow and rctting up
as a prophet The prophet business was
| duh in Arabia in those days-the way 1t
is in Maine now-and for long time he
would have gone hungry if the widow
had not fed him. One day MahOmet
| though he would make final test of his
| powers and give out that on certain
day nc was going to command 4 certain
mountain to come to him. As mountains
| were rare in Arabia. and moving noun
| tains were novelties that had not been
| advertised to the trade, Mahomct found
himself the centre of big gang of loaf
ers when the time came for him to start
the mountain. Indeed. it seemed as if the
| mountain were afflicted with bad rearing
which was no doubt due to the advanced
age. for when Mahnmet had given his