Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-07-28


and cotton absorb the moisture of the body much
better than wooden under garments. The feet
should be encased in moccasins or some sort OF
moccasin shoe-pack or bootpack, because the art-
fetal elevation OF the heel which, however useful
when pounding on the city payements, is unnat
ural and anything that is unnatural interferes
more or less with your progress. After wearing
conventional heeled shoes for IL months, have
put on the leather moccasins of oiled moose hide
and tramped through the forests for weeks at
time without feeling any i'll effects from the
change. But when returned and put on my high
heeled shoes, the frst day spent hitting the trail
on the Great White Way made the muscles of my
shins so sore that almost unable to walk the
next da5.
For shelter temporary camp for night So
do not the "asohagan" of the Indians, common
ly known as teepee by the whites 1t is a splendid
thing for a more or less permanent camp, but it
takes too long erect it, there too many poles
to cut for it. and 1t is heavy and cumbersome in
packing. The big fire which be kept burning
in the center of the "asohagan' is fine in cold
nights and the comforts OF the teepee have never
been improved upon by white inventors of tents.
The best of all teachers Cor would-be campers
is good old mother nature Bless her kindly old
soul! 1t was at her knees that first
learned to exercise it's baby brain and muscles. 1t
was in natures kindergarten that learned to
build our first rude shelters from which has evolved
sky-scraping palaces. Even today people liv
ing in the artificial atmosphere of the opera. the
ball the midnight feasts at the lobster palaces
and all that dollhouse type of pleasure, must go
back to good old mother nature to be really en-
Unused and to experience the healthy thrill only
to be produced by the boom of the avalanche as 1t
tears down the mountain side the rush and roar OF
the torrents issuing from the grinding glaciers, the
of the sea, the song of the birds and the rap
ture experienced by watching the sunset clouds re-
feet their tints upon the mountain tops. And then
comes the night! Every camper is more or less
of a naturalist every camper must be something
of a poet and an artist before he fully ap-
preciate the surroundings; and his surroundings
make poet and artist and naturalist OF him.
The best advice that can be given TO man who
has never camped is to "go and do it." 1t is pos
sible that he may come back from his outing dis
gusted with his first experience. Illluck may have
apparently followed his experiment; 1t may have
rained of the time; the black flies and mosQui
toes may have sized him up as a tenderfoot and
made his life miserable; II may be that the fish
refused to bite that the game refused to show it.
self his horse may have stumbled and ducked
him in the stream which he fording; his canoe
may have upset spelling his films and soaking his
gun. Stray varmints bears, dogs, wolves may
have stolen his provisions, and he may come back
to civilization grumbng that he has wasted his
vacation time.
But Lord bless his innocent soui He has for
the first time in bis life had real vacation He
has added to his experiences and. as French
man would say. he has experienced new sensa.
ton. If he Is man of spunk, the knowledge that
It was his inexperience which caused all these
disasters win make him try it again next year with
manly determination to conquer all obstacles and
then he will come back shaping his friends ON
their backs and shouting that he has had the time
of his life'