Charlevoix county herald., 1911-08-19

Won will find the fur the most useful. Linen, silk
and cotton absorb the moisture of the body much
better than woolen under garments Inc 1eet
should be encased in moccasns or some sort OF
moccasin shoe-pack or bootpack, because the arti-
fetal elevation of the heel which, however usetul
when pounding the city pavements, Is unnat-
ural and anything that Is unnatural lnter1eres
more or less with your progress After wearing
conventional heeled shoes for II months, l have
put on the leather moccasns of oiled moose hide
and tramped through the forests for weeks at
time without feeling any i'll effects from the
change. But when l returned and put on my hgh-
heeled shoes, the first day spent hitting the trail
on the Great White Way made the muscles of my
shins so sore that was 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 a splendid
thing for more or less permanent camp but 1t
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 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 would-be campers
is good old mother nature Bless her kindly old
soul! 1t was at her knees that race first
learned to exercise its baby brain and muscles 1t
was in natures kindergarten that we learned 10
build first rude shelters, from which has evolved
sky-scrapng palaces. Even today we people lv'
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-
thused and to experience the healthy thrill, only
to be produced by the boom of the avalanche as 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 more or less
of a naturalist every camper must be something
of poet and artist before he can fully ap
precate the surroundings and his surroundings
make a poet and artist and naturalist of him.
The best advice that be given to man who
has camped is to go and do it." 1t is pos
sibe that he may back from his outing dis
gusted with his first experience. Ill-luck may have
apparently followed his experiment; it may haze
raned most of the time the black flies and mosqu-
toes may have sized him up 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 fording; his canoe
may have upset, spelling his films and soaking his
gun. Stray varm1nts. bears. dogs, wolves may
have stolen his provisions, and 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. lie
has added TO his experiences and, as a French
man would say, he has experienced a new sensa-
ton If he IS a man of spunk, the knowledge that
It was his inexperience which caused all these
disasters will make him try 1t again next year with
a manly determination to conquer all obstacles and
then he will come back slapping his friends on
their backs and shouting that be has had the time
Of his lfs