The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-21

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sist upon visiting the campers. No
sooner is the camper installed in his
tent by seashore or river than his
city friends begin TO hint that they
would enjoy a weekend out of doors.
The way the city friends figure it
out is this: "Living'in tent is cheap.
We should certainly be no extra eX-
pense to the camper and he should
be glad to see his friends and put
them up for the night. We don't mind
roughing it bit, and he knows it."
If the first hint fails to bring an
invitation there are more hints and
then some more. Finally the camper
comes up with the invitation. He
knows that il will disrupt the daily
routine of tent life, the quiet life he
has chosen to recuperate from the
grind of business, but there is no
way out of it, he thinks.
But there is one way out of it and
that way has been discovered and
put into practice by one of the camp
ers now in the city of tents on Long
Island not far from the Rockaway
Park Station. John Engler is one of
the campers there. He loves the tent
life and has been a camper every
summer for many years.
1T is an expensive luxury, this liv-
ing in a tent" said Mr.. Engler, the
other day. 1T costs more to live down
here than it does in the city. Ones
friends who have never camped out
do not know this. They think it is a
cheap way to spend the summer, and
they do not think they are asking
much to be put up in the tent over
Saturday and Sunday. Well, it's all
right, this entertaining business, once
in while. But when you have lot
of friends the bills run up to large
figures. Food is high down here. Then,
too, one does not care to have lot
of visitors taking up all the room in
the tent. When we come down here
we expect to rest. You can't do that
and keep open tent to your friends.
Il put up with it for several sum-
mers. This season l decided to put a
stop to the visiting. And / have done
it. We are living in peace for one
summer. And the only reason am
going to tell how the visits were stop-
ped is to let other campers who have
experienced the same thing know how
| did it. l know that my friends will
be angry when they see this. But I
am making myself martyr in q good
cause, so here goes:
1--WE had been here less than week
this year when we got the first bid to
entertain a weekend party of three
friends who considered that we ought
TO put them up Saturday and Sunday
Come along, told them when the
SUBJECT came up. We shall be glad to
nave you But you will have to put up
with hard fare and hard beds. We are
living next to nature out here, and we
haven't any of the luxuries that CITY
life gives
Oh! we don't mind that bit re.
Piled the enthusiastic friends. If YOU
can stand it all summer we can stand
it for a couple of days, and will be
glad to.
so the three friends were booked
to arrive the next Saturday morning
My wife and l hustled around to the
supply store and laid in a stock OF
salt fish. We also got some saltpeter
! and gave the fish an extra saltine
down. Then we got some corned beet
and gave that an extra sailing. We al
so bought some hardtack.
"Our friends arrived according tc
schedule. We had breakfast prepared
salt fish and salt beef and hardtack
The three visitors ate with a show
of relish. Then they went out for a
dip in the ocean. My wife and / got
out some real breakfast and ate it
Then we Joined our friends on the
beach.
For dinner we had salt fish. salt
beef, and hardtack. The guests did not
eat so heartily. After dinner they went
out and my wife and got some real
food on the sly. For supper the guests
were also served with salt fish, salt
beef, and hardtack. My wife and ]
made excuses for the scant fare and
told the guests that we had adopted
that diet on our physicians order, as
we were not very well. The guests
ate scarcely any Of the salt food at
supper, and afterward they went out
and suspect they made straight for
hotel and had a square meal.
when bedtime came we showed
the three guests to their sleeping
places. We had rigged up an annex in
the rear and had scooped out three
hollows in the sand, with a little pile
of sand at the end of each.
Here are your beds / told the
visitors. You will find it all right here
on the sand. We haven't enough mat
tresses to spare. You will sleep all
right, for you don't mind roughing it
l know
I'VE left them there. don't imagine
they slept much. Next morning fol
breakfast we served salt meat, salt
fish, and hardtack. The three guests
loked at each other askance. Just be
! fore dinner thew came in from fho