The Yale expositor., 1911-07-27

you will find the fur the most useful Linen, SILK
and cotton absorb the moisture OF the body much
better than WOODEN under garments. The feet
should be encased in moccasins or some sort or
moccasn shoepack bootpack. 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 interteres
more or less with your progress After wearing
conventional heeed shoes for II months, | have
put on the leather moccasns of oiled moose hide
and tramped through the forests for weeks at a
time without feeling any Ill effects from the
change. But when / returned and put on my high
heeled shoes, the first day spent hitting the trail
the Great White Way made the muscles of my
shins that was almost unable to walk the
next day.
For shelter temporary camp for night or so,
do not the "asohagan' of the Indians, common
ly known teepee by the whites. 1t is splendid
thing for less permanent camp, but it
takes too long to erect it; there are too many poles
to cut for 1t, 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
been improved upon by white inventors of tents.
The best of all teachers tor wouldbe campers
is good old mother nature. Bless her kindly old
soul! 1t was at her knees that first
learned to exercise its baby brain and muscles. 1t
was in natures kindergarten that we learned to
build first rude Shelters from which has evolved
skyscraping 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 dollhouse 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 it
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
feet their tints upon the mountain tops. And then
comes the night! Every camper is less
OF a naturalist: every camper must be something
preciate the surroundings; and his surroundings
make poet, and artist and naturalist of him.
The best advice that be given to a who
has 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. Ill-luck may have
apparently followed his experiment; it may have
rained 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 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 real vacation He
has added TO his experiences and as a French
man would say. he has experienced a new sensa.
ton If he a man of spunk, the knowledge that
IL his own inexperience which caused all these
disasters will make him try II again next year with
a manly determination to conquer all obstacles and
then he will come back Shaping his friends on
their backs and shouting that he has had the time
of his fe