The Washington times., 1922-09-10
Practical Book For
Out-of=Doors People

Cl9ude r. Fordyce tStewart
Kidd Company is latest in a series
of outdoor books published by this
firm. A veteran outdoorsman.
DIR. Fordyce includes a vast array
of subjects in this volume. and his
comments are well calculated to
prove of benefit to anyone contem.
plating an outdoor vacation.
whether 1t be an automobile trip.
camping party. Notwithstanding
expedition, or hike through one Of
the Government parks Of the great
West.
The author tells what to do
when crossing the Mojave and
Nevada deserts; what to wear II
mountain climbing is in prospect:
what foods to carry on a tramp
ing trip: how to pull an automobile
out Of deep sand: how to use re.
flecting baker; how much flour.
salt, bacon. beans. and dried fruit
per person is essential to the we'll
being of a camping party.
Many useful recipes are included
In the text. including those for
baking powder bread. sour dough
bread, and brown bread made with
soda. vinegar. and evaporated
milk.
In the matter OF tents, the
author covers the field. Tents OF
every variety of construction and
shape are described, and the reader
Is told which one 10 the best for a
specific purpose. The construc.
ton of log cabins Is entered into,
and as for adhesive plaster. the
author Is enthusiastic in Its praise.
1t seems that there are no end to
its uses around camp or on the
trail, ranging from first aid to a
sprained ankle to repairing a
canoe. There are also hints for
photography Of wild animals and
the developing Of films in camp.
with a chapter on preserving skins
and tanning leather.
PERSEVERANCE pays. Con.
centration is one Of the prime
requisites OF success. Honesty
is the best policy. Be sure you
are right, then go ahead. Don't
be overcautious. but look before
you leap.
Plato? No. Well. Socrates,
then? No, Shakespeare, maybe?
All wrong. Lord Liddell. Yes. SIR,
the fellow who was over here as
iEngland's unofficial but far from
inefficient press agent at the Con.
ference on Limitation Of Arma-
ment.
Lord Riddell is newspaper
publisher in Britain, you know.
Owns strings of the bloomin'
things. and makes all sorts Of
money out of them, and is
knighted and all that sort of
thing.
Being owner Of the papers. he
is humored, we suspect, by his
editors, and permitted to write
any sort Of pieces he wants to
and gets them published-in his
own papers. So when he writes
three thousand words on the
value Of concentration. he doesn't
get his stuff turned down, on the
ground that it isn't news-or
new.
And then, we suspect. his
editors (shameless things) rave
about the pieces, and tell him
how good he is with a quill,
and he gets to believing 1t and
spends some Of hard earned
pounds getting all his pieces put
together in a book and published
in America and sold under the
name "Some Things That Mat.
ter" George H. Doran Coz
We find nothing in the book
with which we can honestly
disagree. We doubt whether
anyone in his right mind would
raise an argument on anything
within the covers.
No one ever died from reading
this sort Of a book.
ALFRED MOVES poem Of the
astronomer, Watchers of the
Sky" (Stokes), has received warm
commentator from Sir Oliver
Lodge. He is enthusiastic about
Mr.. Noyes' achievement in bring.
ing home to men Of letters. as well
as to the wider public. something
Of the personality of the grca.
pioneers. He says the book
should receive a special welcome