The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1911-08-31

Won will apd the fur the most useful. Linen, silk
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 bootpack, because the arti-
fetal elevation OF the heel which, however useful
when pounding the city pavements, is unnat-
ural, and anything that is unnatural interferes
more or less with your progT sss After wearing
conventional heeled shoes for IL months, l have
put on the leather moccasns Of oiled moose hide
and tramped through the forests for weeks at
time without feeling any Ill effects from the
change. But when returned and put on my high
heeled Shoes the first day spent hitting the trail
on the Great White Way made the muscles OF my
shins that was almost unable TO walk the
next day.
For shelter temporary camp for a night so.
do not use the "asohagan" Of the Indians, common
ly known teepee by the whites 1t is a splendid
thing for a less permanent camp but 1t
takes too long to erect it, there too many poles
TO cut for 1t, aud 1t is heavy and cumbersome in
packing. The big fire which can 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 Tor woud-be campers
is good old mother nature. Bless her kindly old
soul 1t at her knees that race first
learned to exercise its baby brain and muscles. II
in natures kindergarten that We learned to
build first rude shelters, from which has evolved
sky-scraping palaces. Even today we people liv'
ing in the artificial atmosphere of the opera, the
ball, the midnight feasts at the lobster palaces
and all that hothouse type OF pleasure, must go
back to good old mother nature to be really
thused and to experience the healthy thrill only
TO be produced by the boom OF the avalanche 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-
fleet their tints upon the mountain tops. And then
comes the night! Every camper is less
OF naturalist; every camper must be something
of a poet and artist before he fully ap-
preciate the surroundings; and his surroundings
make poet, and an artist and naturalist OF him.
The best advice that be given to a man who
has never camped Is 20 go and do it." 1t is pos
sble that he may come back from his outing dis
gusted with his first experience Hl-luck may have
apparently followed his experiment. II may have
rained most OF the time; the black flies and mosqui-
toes may lave sized him up a tenderfoot and
made his life miserable; 1t may be that the fish
refused to bite; that the game refused to show 1t.
self his horse may have stumbled and ducked
him in the stream which he was fording his canoe
may have upset spelling his films and soaking his
gun. Stray varmints, bears, dogs, or wolves may
have stolen his provisions ana he may come back
to civilization grumbling that he has wasted his
vacation time,
But Lord bless his innocent soul. He has for
the first time In his life had a real vacation Hs
has added to his experiences and, as a French
man would say, he has experienced a new sensa
tion. II he Is man OF spunk the knowledge tha,
II was his own ineXperence which caused all these
disasters will make him try II again next year with
manly determination to conqper all obstacles and
then he will come back sapplng his friends on
their backs and shouting that he has had the time
OF his lifel