Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-08-07

| Washington, u. G., July 29.-Being
care free, happy, and healthy While on
vacation is largely a matter of ohsery-
| ing few rules. some of them very old
ones The yacationist is an adYenturer
| iii the sense that he leaves his native
| element for entirely different surround
| ings The danger Is that III his eager
ness to make himself at home he often
gets into trouble. Therefore the rules
are needed for reference
The first rule for vacatonists is to
travel light. Many an able-bodicd OPP
timistic member OF society has contract
ed cramps, crouch and permanent one
sidedness from being tied down to col
lection Of luggage that would make
doughboy loaded for marching look IN,
trammeled by comparison. \ several
months stay at tn ebeach may require
more baggage than toothbrush and an
extra necktie, but for persons who ex-
pect to be hopping on and off trans or
boats every unnecessary ounce is
bother.
The person who travels by rail is
advised to equip himself with dozen
flax seeds. 50 long as trains are run by
coal. and cinders are produced III sizes
small enough to sift through window
screens. riding on a tsain will be attended
by eve casualties Flax seeds are the re-
Ut
one ar two seeds are inserted into the
eve and the seed .snftens and becomes
ghltinons AS it floats about in the eye
il this state it takes UP all foreign
matter. and ii can be removed IN couple
of minutes If you travel alone, pocket
looking glass should be Il part OF the
cinder equipment.
Look Out for Snakes.
OF the live things that make vaca-
tions hazardous the most universally
feared is the snake. In the United
States people seldom run across any
venomons kinds except an occasional
copperhcad. rattler, water moccash or
coral snake. The black snake, which IS
sometimes regarded as dangerous Is
known to be harmless.
Another mistaken idea is that whisky Is
good for snake bite In some places
real snake bite is good for 'prescrlp-
fion.s" But the Smithsonian experts
hold that whisky is not remedy. Inc
old reliable first aid treatment for
snake bite is to have someone suck the
venom and spit it cut AS the poison is
not transferable in this way there IS no
danger unless the person sucking the
poison has All open sore in his mouth
The best general advice about snakes
Is to watch out for them when walking
in underbrush or tall grass, and not to
make friends with any snake unless you
are sure you understand his disposition,
A more common pest than the snake
is the mosquito. This ubiquitous and
voracious insect succumbs most readily
to the scent of pennyroyal. He also
flees from the fumes of citronelIa. punk
and TO some extent. from tobacco smoke
If n lusty blood hunter gets past one of
these fume barrages and inserts his
proboscis into you, a scratching spell
can be averted by quick treatment with
ammonia water to take out the sting.
Vacation in mosquito summer resort
can be rendered more reposeful if You
keep with you tiny bottle of regular
household ammonia with a rubber cork.
According to tradition, bees and Dor
nets are unlike mosquitoes in that they
do not make the first advances--if you
get stung it is your own fault. This
theory is incorrect. We have seen Il
man who was peacefully sleeping in a
hammock, suddenly assaulted by bee
for no reason at all. And we remem
ber lunch party in the woods that
broke up hastily because one guest took
small bee into her mouth along with |