The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-12-26
THE GUESTS FROM SUMMER cAMp,
Feed Them Salt Beef Salt Hordtack Come
Agam-/ts Cruel But Effecfive-Eot Good Food Yourself
On the Sly and let Them Sleep on the Bare Ground

New Workers who spend their vac;
> ton under canvas in one of the man
tent settlements within a short rid
of the city have had many complies
tons to overcome. The chief of thes
Is trying TO entertain friends who in
slst upon visiting the campers. n
sooner is the camper installed in hi
tent by seashore or river than hi.
city friends begin to hint that tn,
would enjoy weekend out of doors
The way the city friends figure il
OUT IS this: Living in a tent is cheap
we should certainly be no extra ex
pense to the camper and he should
De Siad 10. see his friends and pnt
theni up for the night. We don't mind
foushlng it bit, and he knows it
II the first hint fails to bring an
invitation there are more hints and
theh some more. Finally the camper
comes up with the invitation. He
Knows that ii will disrupt the daily
loutile OF tent life. the quiet life he
mas chosen to reciperate from the
SIind OF business. but there is no
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
lslahd not far from the Rockawav
Fafk Station. John Engler is one of
the campers there. He loves the tent
NE ana has been camper every
summer for many years.
IL IS al expensive luxury. this liy
ing IN tent" said Mr.. EngIer. the
o'nef day. 1T costs more to live down
mere than it does in the city Ones
friends who have never canned ont
40 not know this. They think it is a
cheap way to spend the summer. and
'hey DO not think they are asking
n'uch 10 De put up in the tent over
saturday and Sunday Well. it's all
i1snt. this entertaining business onc,,
III While. But when you have a lot
vi lriehds the bills run up to large
nsures. Food is high down here. Then
w. one does not care to have a lot
oi visitors taking up all the rom in
'he tent When we come down here
we expect to rest. You can't do that
ana Keep open tent to your friends
put up with it for severa, CIV,
e Inns season l decided to nut a
stop to the visiting And | have done
=. we are living in peace for IN.
summer. ana the only reason an,
suns 20 teii how the visits were ston.
pea IS 70 let other campers who h,ro
9Aperlenced the same thing know HOW
dld II. ! know that nv friends .,;,,
: ansis "hen they see this. But
y" making myself a martyr in a good
sause. SO here goes:
we had been here less than q wea,
MS year when We got the first hid to
ei tam weekend party of three
rlehds who considered that We ,ueh+
o put tnem up Saturday and Sunday [
Come along told them whom ~ "
"oJect came up. We shall be glad to
ave you. But You will have to put mn c
'i.n hafd 1are and hard beds. We are q
wig next 10 nature out here. and We o
a'eh any of the luxuries that citv II
fe gives o''' Il
On! We don't mind that hit NO.
lied the enthusiastic friends Tf w., lie
al STAND It all summer We can stand /
Tor couple of days, and vii, he n
lad to. wiz '' h,
20 the three friends were booked u
arrive the next Saturday morning o.
y vile and ] hustled around to tho 81
ipply store and laid in a stock NJ OF
u, hsh. we also got some saltpeter IN
ID gave the, fish an extra sailing o.
'"h. 1aen We got some corned beef to
10 gave that an extra Sailing. We al. or
bought some bareback. 81
Our friends arrived according IN tn
hedule We had breakfast prenared if
salt fish and salt beef and hardtac, HI
&c .hree visitors ate with a show tn
relish. Then they went out for a gil
In the ocean. My wife and I got ru
some real breakfast and ate y
len we Joined our friends on the We
ach. '"e hi,
FOR dinner we had salt fish. salt alb
Ell, and bareback. The guests did M; ust
SO heartily. After dinner thew went cal
and my wife and | got some real it
10 on the sly. For supper the guests see
re also served with salt fish salt dO
Il. and bareback. My wife and 7 mil
de excuses for the scant fare and lie'
the guests that we had adopted I
II diet on our physicians order. as apI
were not very WELL The guests in
scarcely any Of the salt food at ran
per. and afterward they went ont.
suspect they made straight for
lotel and had square meal. d,
When bedtime came ua shaa ~