Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-08-05

What blessing It would be to wouankind if
more husbands and brothers, being sportsmen
themselves, would say oftener: Come, go with
into the woodlands cool retreat, to the clear
lake where Turk the willy bass, the air is
filed with the fragrance of growing things
perhaps, Come where Bob White is hiding in
the lonely willow swale-"
As rule, man is, has been. a selfish crea-
ture where sport is concerned, and until recent
years has considered his work well done when
after a fortunate day of sport he came home,
glowing with exercise and vigor bringing the fish
game for the meek and humble wife to pre-
pare But mankind also is beginning to ''see the
error of his ways" and each season there are
more recruits to the army of happy
who have fitted their wives out with all
necessary equipment for the life outdoors,
whether to meet the requirements of the gentle
art of angling OF the more exerting though not
less congenial recreation with the gun
In the United States, those women who have
asserted themselves, either for their inherent love
for nature, the acquired attachment that in
variab1y springs up-the result of close
munion with nature-have proven the equal and
not infrequently the superior of man contestants.
in games that try the utmost skill and endur
ance in his or her special sport To the woman
who has. she will probably express it, lost
her health and whose strength and courage with
which to combat everyday tribulations is fast
deserving her, the physician who
every time positive TO permanent is old
Doctor Outdoors. and his prescriptions many
and varied This physician will advise a
dmid, nervous woman to go for the first time,
armed with shotgun, would he tell a woman
who never had held before formidable
weapon than straight flush" to start out after
big game without preliminary instructions
in this line The first advice would be: Learn
to love the outer world cultivate a taste for
natural beauty, learn to look learn to listen.
learn to walk correctly, to tread the woodland
paths lightly, and learn to breathe fully
freely expanding, exhailng till the blood
ing merrily through every vein brings a warm
glow to cheeks that have long been pinched
faded
In using the terms looking and listening /
refer to the cultivation of the senses, without
which life in the open air loses much of its
chantment. Cultivate the sense of hearing;
when out alone in the woods, pause occasionally
and note how many different sounds you hear
distinctly and remember. Perhaps it is the music
of stream it ripples softly a bed of
gravel; maybe it is the voice of the waterfall
it tumbles over great powders through a
row gorge, and simultaneously you may hear
the twitter of feathered songsters in the neigh
boring trees and the cry of some great bird of
prey its pilgrimage through the air, while
away off in the opposite direction comes the faint
tinkie of a cowbelL While grapsing these separ-
ate, distinct sounds and storing them in your
mind your have kept busy Perhaps you
may notice bent broken twig bush
by, SO your eye involuntarily follows the course
of the path and seeks the next shrub to find
more bent in the samo manner Your conclusions