The Detroit times., 1914-03-06
ENTERS WILDS
WITHOUT FOOD
OR CLOTHING
Woman Plans to Prove Ability
to Exist Under Primitive
Conditions
WILL TAKE NO ARTICLE
OF CIVILIZATION ALONG
Says She'll Come Out Clothed
In Skins and With Imple-
ments of Labor

of Eden u to be made this year In the
Maine forest. Unclothed and alone.
Miss Bana Douglass, champion hunt.
ress Of the east. declares she will
enter the wilds for q months stay In
an Adamless Eden.
Miss Douglass will have no bounty
provided for her. She will rely entire
~ on her wits, her strength and her
vitality to sustain life under the most
severe conditions Of primitive life.
6ho viii bo protected from annoy.
Auco BY q score OF relatives, forming
Gordon around her forest domain.
Miss Douglass will attempt 70 dem.
onstrats her theory that modern wo-
man n able to battle her way alone
under deprived conditions and can
wrest from nature the necessaries
and crude comforts Of life.
On or about August she will cast
% the clothing OF modern woman,
which she declares d mere artificial.
it, anyway. and enter the unbroken
wilderness.
There she plans to live unaided
for . full month. She will rely on
roots, berries, herbs. rabbits. squirrels,
cartridges and brook trout for her
food; on skins, woven back and twist.
ed water grass for her clothing, and
on snares and q bow and arrow made
from crude materials to capture her
prey.
She will make her fre by friction,
uSiny spindle whiried by q bow,
like the South Sea islanders. For
shelter she will build . crude lean-to
nom the fallen sticks. moss and
leaves from the forest floor.
She will be accompanied on her de-
parture BY . group Of women. who
Will bid her goodbye and take DOS.
esston OF her discarded clothing. Wo.
men lookoutS will be posted In the
rearest camps and armed men will
guard the trails further away.
When her lonesome sojourn II com
uleted she will come forth, she de-
cIaroo, clad In skins and woven barks
ANA grasses. She plans to have moe.
|caslns and leggings Of squirrel skins:
|a skirt Of soft lining back interviewer
Ike basket work; . tunic Of woven
water-grass and . sombrero Of bark.
Miss Douglass II we'll qualified to
center the battle Of woman versus M.
lure. She u strong and supple, IL
Injured to exposure and hardship and
In equipped with knowledge Of wood
|cfaft that II unusual among modern
|spmen. She loves the forest and
streams and prefers the solitudes Of
1.-THE wilderness to the hum Of city life
|Of the cares OF the home.
In her girlhood she preferred to
hnnt with her father, to tramp the
trapping lines through the dense
Wilderness, rather than wash the
|dsehes or read books. In the snow.
shoe sloats Of Gus Douglass, the fam.
Gus hunter and trapper Of Maine and
Canada. the smaller snowshoes Of lit.
lie Bana Douglass, ct the age Of ten.
;ramped through the forest. She was
IT that tender age the mascot Of the
hunting camps. She could shoot
|Etraight and true and as she grew
mp she earned the title Of the best
shot In the Dead River region"
Il shall be 20 secure out there alone
aa I would be In the city," she says.
III shall have less to fear. do not
fear the animals: I know them well
and know they are safe. It In only
|in story books that bears and wild.
|Catz become dangerous.
II can do without the frills OF cook.
| tng and Of clothes. shall probably
long tor q few grains Of salt, more
han will for cup Of tea"
Miss Douglass has rauchsd and
hunted In the west - well 90 the
east, and has brought down the biz
aame OF many forests. In Montana
|she hunted the elk with success: In
wyoming she tackled mountain Hons
| IN their liars: In New Brunswick she
Ishot moose and In Maine the deer, the
|caribou and the black bear all have
fAllen before her prowess.
Miss Douglass II . daring horsewo-
man. Last summer she carried the
mails Is miles each day over the
| roughest train In Uncle Sans service,
| from Eustis, Me-, into the heart Of the
wilderness. Although thrown from
| her horse many times into deep mires,
| she came through without injury. on
1.-The same route . man carrier lost hin
/ life two years ago.