The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-07-27

you will find the fur the most useful. Linen, SILK
and cotton absorb the moisture of the body much
better than wooen under garments The teet
should be encased in moccasins or some sort OF
moccasin shoepack or boot-pack, because the arti'
fetal elevation of the heel which, however useful
when pounding on the city pavements' is unnat-
ural and anything that is unnatural interferes
more or less with your progress. After wearing
conventional heeled shoes for II months, l have
put on the leather moccasins Of oiled moose hide
and tramped through the forests for weeks at a
time without feeling any i'll 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 SO sore that almost unable to walk the
next day.
For shelter or temporary camp for night or so,
do not use the 'asohagan" of the Indians, common
ly known as teepee by the whites. 1t is splendid
thing for more or less permanent camp, but it
takes too long to erect it, there too many poles
to cut for it. and it 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 FOR wouldbe campers
is good old mother nature. Bless her kindly old
SOUL 1t was at her knees that our race first
learned to exercise its 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 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 en-
Unused and to experience the healthy thrill, only
to be produced by the boom of the avalanche as it
tears down the mountain side, the rush and of
the torrents issuing from the grinding glaciers the
roar 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 more less
of naturalist; every camper must be something
of a poet and an artist before he can fully ap-
preciate the surroundings; and his surroundings
make poet and an 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. Il-luck may have
apparently followed his experiment; it may have
raned most of the time; the black flies and mosqui-
toes may have sized him up as a tenderfoot and
made his life miserable; it 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 was fordng 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 grumbing that he has wasted his
vacation time.
But Lord bless his innocent soul. He has foI
the first time in his life had a real vacation. He
has added to his experiences and, as French
man would say, he has experienced new sensa
tion. If he is man of spunk, the knowledge that
it was his inexperience which caused all these
disasters will make him try it again next year with
manly determination to conquer all obstacles and
then he will come back slapping his friends or
their backs and shouting that he has had the time
of his life!