The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 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
filled with the fragrance of growing things" or
perhaps, "Come where Bob White is hiding in
the lonely willow swale" ls
AS q rule, man is or 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
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 Or the more exerting though not
less congenial recreation with the gun.
In the U.ited States, those women who have
asserted themselves, either for their inherent love
for nature or the acquired attachment that in
yariably springs up-the result of close COM
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 tyibulatons is fast
deserving her. the one physician who answer
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Doctor Outdoors, and his prescriptions are many
and varied. This physician will never advise
timid, nervous woman to go for the first time,
armed with shotgun, nor would he tell a 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 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 and
freely expanding. exhailng, till the blood cours-
Ing merrily through every vein brings a 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 en-
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 as 1t rpples softly over a bed 81
gravel; maybe it is the voice of the waterfall as
It tumbles great powders or through mar
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 on its pilgrimage through the air, while
tinkle 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 bent or broken twig or a bush near
By. SO your eye involuntarily follows the course
& the path and seeks the next shrub to And
more bent IA che same manner. Your conelusions