The Elbert County tribune., 1911-07-28


you will find the fur the most useful. Linen silk
and cotfon absorb the moisture Of the body much
better than woolen under garments. The feet
should be encased in moccasns or some sort of
moccasin shoe-pack boot-pack 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
less with your progress. After wearing
conventional heeed shoes for 12 months, / have
put the leather moccasins of oiled 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 my high
heeled shoes, the first day spent hitting the trail
the Great White Way made the muscles of my
shins so that almost unable to walk the
next day.
For shelter temporary camp for a night or so.
do not the 'asohagan' of the Indians, common
ly known as teepee by the whites. 1t is splendid
thing for more less permanent camp, but it
takes too long to erect it: there too many poles
to cut for it, and 1t 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 :or woud-be campers
is good old mother nature. Bless her kindly old
souli 1t at her knees that our race first
learned to exercise its baby brain and muscles. 1t
in natures kindergarten that learned TO
build first rude Shelters from which has evolved
sky-scraping palaces. Even today 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-
thused and to experience the healthy thrill only
to be produced by the boom of the avalanche It
tears down the mountain side, the rush and Of
the torrents Issuing from the grinding glaciers the
of the 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 naturalist; every camper be something
OF poet and artist before he can fully ap-
preciate the surroundings; and his surroundings
make a poet, and artist and a naturalist of him
The best advice that can be given a man who
has never camped Is TO 'go and do it." 1t Is pos
sble that he may come back from his outing dis
gusted with his first experience ulluck may have
apparently followed his experiment: it may have
rained of the time: the black flies mosqui-
toes may have sized him up tenderfoot and
made his life miserable; 1t may be that the fish
refused to bite; that the game refused to show It.
self his horse may have stumbled and ducked
may have upset. spelling his films and soaking his
gun Stray varmints, bears. dogs or wolves may
have stolen his provisions and he may come back
to civilization grumblng that he has wasted his
vacation time.
But Lord bless his innocent soul He has for
the first time in his life had real vacation He
has added to his experiences and as a French
would say. he has experienced a new sensa
tion. II he is man of spunk, the knowledge that
It his own inexperence which caused all these
disasters will make him try 1t again next year with
manly determination to conquer all obstacles and
then he will come back sapping his friends or
their backs and shouting that he has had the timx
of his life!