Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-07-02
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Take a Vacation.

Now is the time to take your vaca-
ton, for it is that bewitching season
of the year when the trees are green,
the sun warm and tempting.
Those who have never been on
real camping trip do not realize what
they have missed. They have missed
one of the greatest joys of life---that
of getting where they can see the
real bigness of natures great out
doors. There is something exhilarat-
ing in lying down at night under the
great sky-tent and looking up at the
twinkling stars before one closes their
eyes to sleeep. The exhilaration
seems to come from the realization
of how great and infinite the world
is, and how great must be the Maker
who has made so many earths and
planets and set them swinging
through space in such an awe-inspir-
ing manner.
One weeks camping will make
such a difference in a tired, wornout
mind and body that the person will
feel like a new person when he re-
turns to take up again the duties of
business.
Now is the time to take your trip.
1t is not too hot or not too cool. Get
in your automobile or hitch up the
team and away you 60.
Take a trip to the coast, for in
stance. 1t is not far away. Take
your bedding, your grub box, and
feel independent of hotels and eating
houses. Be free. That's the only
way to enjoy and get the good out of
camping.
Let's get ready. If it is a wagon
you are going in rig up big parti-
toned grub box either under the
front seat or as far behind as possi-
BILE so that it will not have to be
moved when you stop. Provide a
hinged lid that will open up and
make a regular pantry of your wag
on. Now put in pancake flour, white
flour, prunes, butter, bread, cookies,
doughnuts, apples, sugar, salt, pep
per, canned baked beans, canned
corn, coffee and condensed cream,
bacon, ham, onions, and then, on top,
put two great big potato cakes.
When one has gone camping a lot
they learn what to take. They learn
that canned crab, lobster, fish, as
paragus and the like do not go well
with the camper-he must have
something that gives forth the aro-
matte odor of camp coffee, frying
ham or steaming mulligan stew.
Now the beds. There is way for
doing everything, and there is a
knack in rolling up beds. Get a
piece of canvass for each bed, which
is about six inches larger than the
quilts all around. Spread the beds
on the canvasses, then fold in each
side about a foot (according to how
long you want your rolD. Now start
on one of the other sides and roll at
right angles to the previous fold, us
ing the knees and both hands to
make the roll tight. Then tie with
clothesline rope at each end and in
the middle. This will make a very
tight and compact roll, looking very
neat and also keeping every bit OF
dust and wet out of the beds. When
1t comes time to unroll them, there
they are. the beds all made without
any more bother than to unite the
ropes which hold them.
Now let us pay attention to the
eatables which we shall take along.
Most of the different articles were
enumerated, so we shall merely en-
phasize some of them. Some prob
ably wonder why onions" was in
serted. Onions are the greatest
camping food that one could imagine.
The person who has never eaten null
ligan stew has missed something
great. Now here is the recipe for
making mulligan stew: Several
slices of bacon, cut in shreds or
strips; about one quart of cubed po-
tatoes, sliced onions to taste, some
cubed carrots If obtainable, and salt
and pepper and enough water to
make a thick soup. Cook until the
different vegetables are we'll done.
The best thing to cook muilligan In
is one of the big iron kettles, sus-
pended over the fire by cross stick
resting on two forked sticks driven