The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-02-26
LIKE eve, SHE
WILL ROAM WOOD
Daring Girl VIII Take Neither
Provisions nor Arms.
MAY RETURN FULLY CLAD

To obtain Clothes by Staying Animals
and Using Skins-Dauahter of Guide
Says knowledge Of MODERATE Will
Enable Her to sueceed-Expert Shot
With Rife and skiIifuI With the Rod.
Portland, Me.-Garbed only In the
original attire of Mother Eve, Miss
Bana Douglass of Stratton will enter
the dense woods of Franklin count,
and remain there two months some
time this year. She will take neither
weapons, clothing nor provisions. but
will trust TO her woodcraft and her
knowledge of game to enable her to
live and to come forth fully clad and
In fine lighting trim. She Ii II fear
less ranger OF the forests. aud her
friends say she win accomplish her
difficult task.
Miss Douglass declares she will en-
ter the forests of her native county as
scantily clad as when she was born
and will come forth at the end OF the
two months fully clothed In such garb
o. she can obtain In the woodlands.
She VIII take nothing, feeling certain
that she can provide for herself what
ever she needs OF food and raiment.
Fear of no modern Actaeon seems to
enter her mind. Miss Douglass greatly
prefers the woods and fields and
streams, with their hunting, freedom
and fishing, to a love romance.
Since childhood the girl, a daughter
of Gus Douglass OF StrattoH. has fol-
lowed her father hundreds of miles In
the woods, has absorbed hts fund OF
wood lore and has studied the forests
and inland waters with their teeming
life. The father is an expert shot,
trapper, fisherman and guide, and just
now he, another man and Miss Doug
lass are across the Canadian border on
n shooting trip.
Miss Douglass knows every kind of
tree and bird and animal to be found
I'm the Dead river region of this state,
knows every sort OF animal of the field
and river banks and every variety OF
fish f~requenting Carrabassett river and
the south and north branches of the
Dead river itself In her home district.
She knows all their habits and peculi-
arities and has no fear of life alone
among them for two months.
stratton is a part Of the town of Eus-
It's. forty-eight miles north of Farm
ington. The settlement and all the re-
gion OF the Dead river lying there
about are thinly populated. compare
lively speaking. but they offer a great
field for the sportsman with rod and
gun. From her home town to the ca
madam border no pond, stream or trail
Is unknown to this twentieth century
Diana, and the crack of her rifle al.
most always brings down that ut which
she aims. With her endurance and
knowledge OF the woods and game she
Is ideally equipped for her coming ad.
venture.
Miss Douglass last summer carried
the mails over the rural route from
Stratton to and through neighboring
settlements for upward of twenty-five
miles and In all sorts OF weather and
under many difficulties. She is not of
large frame. but Is strong and agile.
the simple life of the backwoods serv-
ing In the twenty-three years of her
life to conserve her strength and to
build up a rugged constitution.
The girl seeks no notoriety In the
venture she will make, and In all prob
ability the outside world will never
know she has completed her two
months alone with the forest dangers
until the time is up. Unwished for at
tention may be attracted to the ven
ture. but the girls family will guard
against intruders.