The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-08-04

What blessing it would be to womankind if
more husbands and brothers, being sportsmen
themselves would say oftener Come, go with
me into the woodlands cool retreat, to the clear
lake where Turk the willy bass, and the air is
filed with the fragrance of growing things" or
perhaps Come where Bob White is hiding in
the lonely willow swae."
AS a rule, man is, or has been, a selfish crea
ture where sport is concerned, and until recent
years has considered his work we'll done when
after a fortunate day of sport he came home
glowing with exercise and vgor bringing the fish
or 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 and more recruits to the army of happy
men 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 the more exerting though not
less congenal recreation with the gun.
In the United States, those women who have
asserted themselves either for their inherent love
for nature, or the acquired attachment that in
variably springs up-the result of close COM
munion with nature-have proven the equal and
not infrequenty the superior of man contestants,
In games that try the utmost skill and enfur
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 tribuations is fast
deserving her. the one physician who can answer
every time positive to a permanent cure is old
Doctor Outdoors, and his prescriptions many
and varied This physician will never advise
timid nervous woman to go for the first time
armed with shotgun, would he tell woman
who never had held before a more formidable
weapon than straight flush" to start out after
big game without some 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 sten
learn to walk correctly to tread the woodland
paths lightly, and learn to breathe fully and
freely expanding. exhailng till the blood
ing merrily through every vein brings warm
glow to cheeks that have long been pinched and
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 can 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
1t tumbles over great powders or through mar
row gorge, and simultaneously you may hear
the twitter of feathered songsters in the neigh
prey on its pilgrimage through the air, while
away off in the opposite direction the faint
tinke of a cowbell. While grapsing these separ-
ate, distinct sounds and storing them in your
mind your eyes have kept busy. Perhaps you
may notice a bent or broken twig or bush near
by, so your eye involuntarily follows the course
of the path and seeks the next shrub to find
more bent In the same manner. Your conclusions