New-York tribune., 1907-08-03
OUT OF DOOR LIFE.
Il CIever Book on Camping, and
Other Books.

CAMP KITS AND CAMP LIFE. BY Charles Ste1-
Hanks. illustrated 16lno, PIP G59 Charles
Scribners Sons.
BAIT ANGLING FOR COMMON FISHES. BY
Louis Rhead. Illustrated Iemo, pp l52 The
Outing Publishing. Company.
THE SPORTS1TAN'S PRIMER. BY Norman II
crOven Illustrated. I6nlO. pp. 1s9. The Cut.uE;
Publishing Company.
1t is matter for rejoicing that with every
summer camping out is becoming more and
more popular in this country. For the tired
denizen OF The city there could be no wiser
escape to health and pure happiness than in this
return to nature and 10 youth. The ideal fash
ion OF camping is described by ATr. Hanks with
excellent common sense and with careful detail.
His Instructions are intended. OF course. for
those TO whom camping out means angling and
shooting. well as unconventional life under
the greenwood tree; but for the dweiIer under
canvas who does not care for sport the chap
tiers on the establishment and care Of u camp,
on supplies. and on camp cooking, VIII be equal
y useful. That, there are many people in these
days who go out into the woods merely TO
breathe deeply. live simply and invite their
souls is evident 70 every dweIIer about more or
less famous inland lakes. Under pine ana Diro Il.
in places where furred OK feathcrcd game can
not be found and where fish are either scarce IT
problematical. glimmcr the white tents Of such
campers. Their fun may not be glorious with
the glory that attends rod and gun. but it is
whoIcsome-Tnore power to their camp fire!
The faStidious scOffer OF an idle day need not
imagine that camping out is an amusement that
is necessarily uncomfortable. The list of things
be taken out grows smaller each year, Mr..
Hanks assures US. with the practiscd lover Of
the Wilderness Each year you viii take more
chances that you Will not need many Of the
things which YOU once thought you could not
get along without. For this reason man VIII
never accept advice about his kit or admit that
another mans kit is better than the one he has
hacked for himself" We agree with him in
his recommendation to take camp stove. Amy
woodsman worth his salt DO thoroughly
good cooking a camp fre-think Of the fried
trout and bacon, the baked potatoes and the
light napiacks Of ExpeTience!-but there come
days when, as author truly says, i IS no
finn cooking in the rain. AS for cooking at
the camp fire his directions plain and in
senious even to the baking Of bread when you
have nothing 10 bake it in. Wind the dough,
he saws around a hardwood stick, drive the
stick into the ground close TO the fire, ana turn
If as the bread bakes.' This can be done, but
the unaccustomed camper must remember tlat
II takes some deftness not to lose the dough in
the fire 1t certainly stirs an appetite IN inc
cit weary OF an unvaryinS summer menu, TO
read Of these hints. IF you on days hunt
and have baggcd bird, or have caught a rev
fish and are Just wet, tired and hungry enough
70 want a square meal get two nat stones ana
luild A fire over them. After they have become
heated scrape away the embers, dust or the
e,opos mt your bird fish on one stone and
the other stone top, and then rake the not
ernhers over them After you have had your
luncheon YOU will be ready TO try conclusions
with bear -
THE advice to ore who finds himself lost IN
tie woods is erninently sensible. beginning with
the Injunction that the lost one should not also
lose his head:
Sit down and think Il over quietly The hrst thlhS
,o do &c m recall the direction you took Whcn you
left cauo and then the turns you afterward made
Then take your compass and see II 1t agrees WIN
rrhere vou think the camp lies II you find that
90, are right start back but unless the lay or the
Iar5 or something else looks familiar to you CLIMB
o ,ree or get on some elevation and try 10 locate
.o,,a+bfnq which you passed earlier IN the Day
Ie ,,ou find that you going IN the wrong dlTec-
tton don't let your brains ooze down into your
ct and get your feet started in n run, but give
a. ~ puiId q fire, whatever luncheon you
- light your ph)e and make up your mind
-. ,r,e only sensible thing to do is 10 walt for
- lid or some one in camp to hunt you up.
Dont make any more attempts to hnc your way
han, b,t get some green wood. wet moss. or damp
,,-ns and nut them on the fire. This win make
: s,,,ole 80 that you be located. II 1t IS late
- .ne afternoon you may be reasonably sure that
,Io ,rind will go down with the sun ana thet the
s,nol-e will high enough 10 be seen long DIS
,ance AS extra precauton Dulid ailolher Hre
n little distance from the first one. as inns means
o. NV one who the smoke that somebody
lost or that there has been accident Another
N ,ecozniZed signal is fire Two shots In sue
areton and "A minute later another shot, but re-
member that il will be of no use to keep nrlng Il
there is any wind and that II is waste of energy