The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-07
IN WAGON AND TENT.
Summer Trip of Four Women and q
Boy.
New York SUM

A-NtN VI n SUM
"Our six weeks vacation last summer
cost five of us less than $50. 1t is true
the less means a few cents, but still it
was less than $780,"
The speaker was a young southern
woman who has the reputation of doing
everything and going everywhere in
spite Of her small income.
we went to the mountains in a gyp-
sy wagon. taking two tents and two
hammOcks along" she went on. Our
party comprised myself and two IN
married girls about my own age, mar
ried woman a few years older and her
16-year-old son. We had two horses and
the boy insisted on taking his dog.
I'VE got the idea of travelling in
wagon from the newspaper accounts Of
the eccentricities of some titled Eng
lish woman. They spoke Of her spend
ing the summer in a gypsy wagon as an
eccentricity, but anyone who will give
the plan trial will grant that that wo-
man knew q good thing when she saw it.
"Our gypsy wagon was nothing mere
or less than a covered farm wagon
draw by two horses. We hired the
horses and the wagon from a farmer
living near US for $40 for the six weeks.
You see with us from the middle of July
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very much used on the farm.
Besides the wagon we hired two
small tents at a cost of s. each with the
privilege of keeping them until the be-
ginning of the hunting season. The 9TH
er things, such as quilts, blankets, tow
els and our cooking outfit, we brought
from home. Two of the girls took their
bicycles.
IN the way OF clothes we women took
each a short walking skirt of dark cot
ton cloth, half a dozen shirt waists, one
sweater. two pretty muslin dresses, one
thick tub dress of linen or pique. two
changes Of underwear and an extra hat
and pair Of shoes. These were all
packed in large pasteboard boxes.
1T took us two weeks to go the f96
miles to the point where we camped, and
I am sure 1 never enjoyed any other
two weeks Of my life quite as much.
We Travelled only in the mornings and
the cool Of the afternoon. When any
body got tired walking OF wheeling she
would crawl into the wagon for a rest
and remain just as long as she wanted.
THE horses were gentle and willing,
and we knew we were not Overburden-
( ing them even when we were all riding.
! Il the horses wanted to trot while we
were walking, the person who was driv-
/ ing allowed them to do so. knowing that
| the walkers and vhee5crs would catch
/ up in time.
For our midday rest we would select
a shaded spot near the road, feed the
| horses. hang our hammOrSs in The trees
/ or spread quilts out on the grass and
! make ourselves comfortable until the
/ cool OF the evening. As to feeding our
! selves we took turns. cooking on the
little kerosene stove, which we carried
! suspended under the wagon.
| our meals were one Of the delights
/ of that trip. Except such things as
/ sugar coffee, tea and a small quantity
| Of -four and meal, we took no supplies
/ from day to day. Poultry, eggs and
1 milk were to be had at each farm house
/ and at rates ridiculOUsly low TO US who
/ had been brought up in and near a city
/ Imagine paying 10 cents q dozen for
/ eggs which you saw gathered. and get
| ting two large young chickens for ?;
/ cents and a fat hen for Is cents Those
were the prices we paid on the farm
/ and when we bought Of the country
| stores we paid very little more thar
that
las for vegetables we got them foi
what We offered. and could have had
them given TO US had we been willing q
| accept them. Fruit and melons were q
/ be had on the same terms.
In my part Of the country. away
from the railroad. frying size chick
| en- sells for half the price Of a pound oil
salt pork. and a dozen eggs for a few
cents less. I mean hens eggs, In mid