The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-10
SUMMER AND GREAT
OUTDOORS NOW
BECKON MOTORIST
II Planning to Enjoy a Tour
Here are Hints to Sc
cure Comfort


are beginning to beckon to the mo-
torist!
This is the time Of the year when
nearly all owners Of cars are mentally
planning their annual outing, and q
TOUR to some favored spot naturally
has first consideration.
It's hard to think about the matter
without thrilling over the prospect.
Is here anything more enjoyable
than the early start in the cool of a
summer morning as you sit back
comfortably and contentedly, while
the motor huns unsteady as mile
after mile of changing scenery pass
es before you. Then the stop for
lunch beside some little brook in the
! warmth of the summer noon, and
the long drive through the sunlit af-
ternoon, until, at twilight, you pitch
camp and after happy, sleepy sup
per you roll up in your blanket and
almost before you are aware of it
you are off to the land of peaceful
dreams. It's a beautiful vision isn't
it, yet it can come true.
Transcontinental touring is now
comparatively easy, and decidedly
worth while to any one who can pos
sibly arrange to take it. The roads
are definitely mapped out, and many
of them are improved. The Lincoln
Memorial highway, for example,
points a short and easy way from
coast to coast that even the veriest
tyro couldn't mistake.
The only thing which might make
long tour a hardship now would be
| lack of proper equipment, or perhaps
starting at the wrong time of the
year. The greatest asset on trip
of this kind is common sense. The
next greatest is efficient equip
ment."
By the way, how have you toured?
Do you throw couple of suit cases
in your car, and make runs from one
hotel to another, paying high prices
for poor food, bad service, uncom-
Portable beds and stuffy rooms, not
to speak of the feeling that permeates
your being during the day that you
must, at all costs, reach the hotel
that is your objective for the nights
lodging?
Or do you take tent, some blank
cts, an air mattress, cooking kit,
some grub, and last, but not least,
good comapnion and make the I'M
friendly wilderness your very friend
ly and comfortable home?
Perhaps you have tried both ways.
If you have and you are a red-blood-
ed normal being then you like COM
munion with the great outdoors in
preference to stuffy hotel rooms, and
the wholesome appetizing meals that
you can cook easily in your kitchen
kit in preference to the questionable
cooking that you will get in the
country hotels you encounter along
the way.
If you are planning to tour this sum-
mer and intend to camp there are a
Few sensible suggestions that you
must store in your memory now, be-
cause you will find them invaluable
when you are under way. Better
still, if you can't trust to your mem
Dry then clip these suggestions out
now and file them away against the
day when you set forth for the great
Don't wear wool next to the skin.
Wear linen or cotton underneath.
Don't wait until the gasoline is al
most gone before filling up. There
might be delay, or it might not be
obtainable at the next settlement.
Don't allow the water can to be |
other than full of fresh water, and fill |
it whenever you get chance. You
might spring leak in the radiator or
burst water hose.
Don't buy oil in bulk when it can
be avoided Buy the one gallon ORR
ginal cartons.
Don't carry loaded firearms in the
car, except possibly small pistol of
some sort.
Don't fail to put out your camp fire
when leaving.
Don't forget to take yellow Cog
giles.
Don't forget to take camphor ice,
peroxide, new skin" or listerine.
Don't make a big fire cooking. The
smaller the better.
Don't ford water without first
wading through it.
Don't drive over 25 miles an hour.
Don't carry good clothes. Ship
hem.
Don't wear leather puttees-use
canvass. ..... ...
Don't drink alkali water-serious
result.
Don't wear new shoes.
The supplies largely depend upon
he individual.
Always camp on high ground
never by water on account of mos
luitoes.