Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-31
Tom Marshall Tells How
to Spend a 'sPerfect Day.

Dame Nature is a good old girl!
Soothing ground currents, the main
springs of longevity, cannot pene-
trate asphalt roads or cement walks.
Yourself and family are invited and
urged to visit the sequestered hooks.
enjoying the wonders to be found
in her virgin forest home.
A limited number of our city
denizens, know the attractive resorts
now surrounding their homes. A
primitive forest is within short
drive of your city home, where wild
howers in abundance may be found,
plants of interest, are growing in a
locality where birds unknown to city
life are singing a seductive lullaby.
Trees of many varieties through the
medium of their bark, leaves and
general contour, will furnish both
old and young a most interesting and
instructive line of study. Eliminate
JOY riding. Take, your little family
or coterie of friends for spin. Leave
congested highways, drive into the
virgin forest, where Dame Nature,
the presiding hostess, will ever make
you welcome in the most wonder
fully equipped and luxuriantly ap-
pointed home you have ever visited.
Provide yourself with books on bird
life, descriptive and replete with col
ored plates. A winged messenger
will fly from branch to branch. Lo-
cate its name, species and habits.
All bird life becomes intensely in
teresting to those who study orni-
thology. Make frequent notations,
to be canvassed and discussed, upon
your return home. Study tree life
through it's leaf formations and bark
peculiarities. Watch the small fur
bearing animals, squirrels and rab-
bits, moles and gophers, all are of
interest, If given a season of thought
and line of study. Gaze into the
sky, there you will see floating in
graceful circles-without the culver
of a Wing-or volplaning toward
mother earth a Cathartes aura sep
tetrionalis-the turkey buzzard =
scavengers of the torrid zones. An
eagle-our national bird-might be
seen on his aerial flight in quest of
rood. Floating on the surface of
the water, might be seen a duck,
slonal drive in pursuit of fish or
flying a short distance to more de-
sirable feeding grounds. Come back
TO earth! Give your family or
friends an instructive or descriptive
talk, explaining how the leaves act
as tree lungs, bark forming an over
coat or exterior covering, the roots
extracting from the earth, necessary
nourishment for the sustenance or
tree life. The shapes and formations
of leaves and their Kaleidoscope
colorings. Explain bird life, their
plumage, habits and general pecu-
llarities. AS means of diversified
add to your accom-
panying equipment a handtrap, some
tagets. shells, scatter gun and %
caliber rifle, then teach the art of
shooting and handling fire arms,
eliminating the danger from ignorant
handling in' future years. This will
be a lifting finish to the real pleasure
to be enjoyed at the "close of a per-
feet day."
Together you have communed with
nature, permitting their feet to come
in direct contact with mother earth,
magnetic ground currents have
coursed through their bodies, allay-
ing nervousness, inviting content
ment and inducing longevity. They
have had respite from the cement