Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-08-10

What a blessing it would be to womankind if
more husbands and brothers, being sportsmen
themselves, would say oftener: Come, go with
ne into the woodlands cool retreat, to the clear
lake where lurk 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 swae."
AS 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 United States, those women who have
asserted themselves either for their inherent love
for nature, or the acquired attachment that in
variably 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 as she will probably express it, "lost
her health" and whose strength and courage with
which to combat everyday trihulations Is fast
deSertlng ner, the one physician WHO can answer
every time as positive to a permanent cure is old
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 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 a 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
ing merrily through every vein brings a
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
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 1t is the music
of a stream 1t ripples softly bed of
gravel; maybe it is the voice of the waterfall as
1t tumbles over great powders through a 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 its pilgrimage through the air, while
away off in the opposite direction comes the faint
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 Involuntary follows the course
of the path and seeks the next shrub to find
mere bent II the sama manner. Your conclusions