Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-27

- quite agree with you that the temp
tations of gasoline far exceed those of al
cohol. Any fellow with cruise Of OIL
gas tank and a horsepower motor will
leave his home and happy occupation for
the white-hot way. There he'll mile away
the time until the gas gives out or the
police turn him in.
T ALSO agree with you that camping out
L by motor turns the ordinary beads OF
sweat into a sort of primrosary of cool
enjoyment No more of this tump-line
torture for me. If the modern motorist
reads enough periodicals he is sure to take
his tent and gridde along with him sooner
or later. But you know how soon he
succumbs to the call of the kitchen range!
Unless he's made of sterner stufting than
most hen call off his fortnight of free
dom in about four days. But tell you
Iooner my boy, when you come up I'm
| going to show you a new sport which l
| call siteless camping.
COME of the boys dropped in on Maniac
~ last night and we got to arguing about
enjoyments. Had a regular symposium,
mostly symp. Arthur tells how his the
| UniversaD car can do the universe in
| twelve days Bone explains how he likes
to settle down by his sylvan pool and just
| run back to the farm for vegetables every
| day. Cassidy swore he could pack all his
| duds under the hood, and Drooler took
him up and said.that you couldn't get real
| comfort withcdt the fireless cooker and
| the refrigerator and the vacuum cleaner
trailing behind. Ernest likes to sleep on
the ground and Fischer intends to trun'
| die a brass bed after his new twn-twelve.
| I kept quiet until they were all talked out.
Then sprang my siteless camping on 'em.
| X/OU know, Looner, whether you are
L going to camp out with blanket or
| decamp with the contents of half house
every fellow gets face to face with
o'clock sooner or later. You've always got
to set up housekeeping. You may do with
| out wood or without water, but you can't
pitch a tent without tent site. We've
| swallowed horseless motion and wireless
telephony, but placeiess tent.pitching-
we'll you know why the boys call my
| shack Maniac Lodge.
| AS was saying, the motor camper has
"A to quit at dusk to browse for tent
site But does he? Does a man, maddened
by a matchless road, purring motor and
a hopping landscape. stop to pick out six
feet of level dirt to sleep on? As our old
geometry used to say, 1t is absurd. No
sir, Old Scotch never got half SO intoxi
eating as the Good Gulf Gas. But look
| now at the other side of the picture.
| ABOUT he stops, dusty, hungry, saw
| "A age. He gropes for wood. He swal
lows a mess called food. He then tries tc
pitch his tent. 1t is the darkest hour O.
night called pitch dark, when he tries 1t
He makes a night of it-a long night. 1
is a curious fact of nature that night last!
twice as long on the ground as two fee
above it. We've had that odious experience
| together, Looner. Remember the Upper
Ausable? But yet that man, by 4 o'clocl
of the next afternoon. will have forgot tn,
necessities Of stopping early and will g
careening on into the dark and uninhab
liable hours. ! used to, but don't now
My car-yes, Looner. still that make o
imperishable fame. that model so like ou
glorious Republic. one and. tndsstructlble