Bellefonte, Pa., July 18, 1919.
A DESIRE OF
HEARTS:
YOUTHFUL
THE CAMPING
TRIP.
Just now when vacations are occu-
pying the minds of so many, some
practical suggestions for those who
are planning to spend a portion of the
summer close to the heart of nature
should prove acceptable. So much de-
pends on the people who comprise the
party and the situation of the camp.
Therefore, think not only twice about
each person who goes with you, but
think at least a dozen times. Consid-
er him from every angle. Remember,
you will be with him practically 24
hours out of 24. Therefore, consider
his idiosyncracies; then consider your
own. You know we all have some.
You must not only consider his hap-
piness, but you must consider your
own and that of your companions. I
can truthfully say nothing so mars a
camp as an unhappy person. He
completely spoils the atmosphere of
the place. Therefore, think whether
the person to be invited is annoyed by
details—such as mosquitoes, a few
rainy days, a bed that occasionally
collapses, an occasional meal without
cream; whether an attack of ivy pois-
oning would necessitate a 20-mile
walk to a physician. If any of these
or hundreds of others not mentioned
will interfere with his or her happi-
ness or ruffle his temper, then he will
be wise to leave him at home. Such
people as these will likely make
charming house party guests, but
they will make impossible campers.
THE RIGHT CROWD ALONG.
After you are sure you have just
the right people and just enough so
that no one will be overworked, be-
cause the work is a big item, and also
a sufficient number so the party can
be divided and those who want to
walk and those who want to ride will
not have to go alone, then the time
has come to consider the location of
the camp. Some amateur campers
may feel that the most important is-
sue is in second place, but experienc-
ed persons all agree that the success
of any camp, be it large or small, de-
pends more than anything else on the
people.
Generally speaking, the location is
all a matter of choice—choice in so
far as to whether the camps shall be
in the wilds of Maine or Oregon, or
2 the shores of the Atlantic or Pa-
cine.
However, there are certain definite
facts that must be ascertained before
attempting to make a camp.
ABOUT DRINKING WATER.
The first is the matter of drinking
water; this is of paramount import-
ance. So many diseases are traced to
drinking water that it behooves us to
be careful. It is wise whenever pos-
sible to have the drinking water ex-
amined. This assures perfect safety.
If this is impractical, then examine
the country within a radious of one
mile from the camp. See if your
spring or well is contaminated by
streams that contain any refuse from
a barnyard. Do not ever drink water
in the vicinity of an old graveyard
without first having it examined.
Keep your camp as far as possible
from marshland. There are two rea-
sons for this—malaria usualdy
abounds in the vicinity of marshes
and lowlands. Then again where there
are stagnant pools or low marshy
ground there are bound to be mosqui-
toes and snakes. The former are us-
ually considered a huge nuisance, but
scientists assure us they are far more.
They are responsible for many diseas-
es that may be so serious as to prove
fatal.
A wise location is one in the vicini-
ty of a farm, where you can secure
fresh vegetables.
APPETITE GIVERS.
Remember, being in the open air
and exercising, as you are sure to do
when camping, means that usually at
the end of the first 24 hours you have
a sufficient appetite to relish almost
anything. Substantial food is a ne-
cessity when camping and vegetables
are surely more healthy than canned
foodstuffs.
The third most important matter to
consider is equipment. The equip-
ment for a camp depends to a certain
extent on where you go and to a
large extent on how long you propose
to stay.
Unless you have had previous ex-
perience hunt up some friends that
have been in the habit of camping and
ask them to help you. Like every-
thing else, you learn from experience.
ON CHILLY NIGHTS.
For instance, if you are sleeping on
a canvas-bottom cot and the nights
are cool, you just naturally pile all
the blankets, coats and even cushions
on top and then continue to shake and
shiver and wish you were home. An
experienced camper knows that the
cold from below is the same tempera-
ture as that above and acts according-
ly. He divides the covers, placing the
same number under as over him; or,
better still, if he is near enough to
civilization to secure some old news-
papers, he spreads a layer an inch
thick over the canvas and is very com-
fortable during the coldest weather.
Much of the success of the camp de-
pends on your comfort at night. Of
course, if you sleep in a shack, you
are more or less protected from
weather and do not have to consider
so carefully the amount of bedding
you take. However, it is always wise
to allow four woolen blankets to each
person.
The ideal camp bed consists of an
empty tick which can be filled with
pine boughs and straw at night and
emptied in the morning. Each day
the filling must be dried in the sun.
Then about 4 p. m., before it has be-
come damp, # can be quickly placed
in the tick. If you feel this takes too
much time, throw the tick (with fill-
ing in it) over the limb of a tree. Any
place with a curremt of air through it
will do. It is well if you plan to sleep
in the open to take a rubber sheet or a
large piece of oilcloth to spread on
the ground. On this you place the
tick or bough mattress. This keeps
away the dampness and prevents the
slightest suggestion of rheumatism.
A FRAGRANT PILLOW.
If you sleep with a pillow make one
on the same plan as the mattress and !
fill it with pine boughs. It is so fra-
grant and your sleep on such a bed
is so restful.
Each day be sure to air all bedding.
This is one thing an experienced
camper never neglects.
IN CASE OF RAIN.
It is well to take a rubber sheet to
cover over the ground should it rain.
With a heavy oilcloth between the
mattress and the ground and a rub-
ber sheet over you, it will surprise
you, the first time it rains, how dry
you will keep. :
A camp, no matter how unpreten-
tious it may be, is never completely
satisfactory unless it includes some
arrangements for baking.
Even for a two weeks’ sojourn in
tents it is wiser not to depend entire-
ly on the frying pan.
When the transportation facilities
are good it is scarcely practicable to
carry a two weeks’ supply of bread,
and even if it were, who does not en-
joy hot biscuits for supper, or an oc-
casional cake or pie?
The Dutch oven seems to be the
most practical portable baker that
has yet appeared. For the benefit of
those not yet initiated, a Dutch oven
is a covered iron pot of varying di-
mensions. One with a diameter of 10
or 12 inches is sufficiently large for a
party of four.
The pot stands on three legs and |
has a tight-fitting iron lid with a
standing rim. ;
BAKING POWDER BISCUITS. i
When one desires to bake—let us
say baking powder biscuits—both pot |
and lid are put on a hot fire until they |
hiss well; a piece of lard or other fat
is dropped in and then the biscuits |
are put directly on the bottom of the |
pot. The lid is quickly put on and |
heaped with glowing coals and the!
pot is put on a bed of coals or very |
hot embers or ashes.
Be careful not to have flames come
against the pot when it contains any
food baking, as the contents will
grow too hot and burn quickly. Watch
for signs of burning, as you would in
the oven or range.
Sometimes it may be necessary to
remove the pot from the bed of coals
or to knock the ashes from the lid if
the article is browning too quickly.
With a little practice, however,
even an amateur with the oven can
learn to bake delicious biscuits, rais-
ed bread, cake or pie. For baking pie
the best plan is to have a plate that
just fits the oven or is a little small.
Bore two holes on opposite edges of
the rim of the plate and insert wires
for lifting it out of the oven when the
pie is baked.
If carefully watched your pie will
be baked as perfectly as in your oven
at home.
Of course, the oven may be used for
baking potatoes or beans.
Habits of a Judge.
An ex-judge had been nominated
mayor in a French country district.
It soon devolved upon him to sanction
a marriage ceremony.
“Do you consent to marry this gen-
Seman, young lady?” he asked amia-
y.
“Yes,” was the reply.
Then, suddenly changing his tone
to one of great severity, he said to,
her proposed husband: “And you,’
have you nothing to say in your de-
fense ?”’—London Opinion.
She Didn't Understand.
Fond Mother of Absent Guardsman
—“I knew Jack would distinguish
himself with the regiment and he |
has.”
The Neighbor Who Has Dropped In
—“Ah! On guard on the border, isn’t
he?”
Fond Mother—“Better than that!
Why, his letter says he’s right in the
guardhouse itself!”
TRACTOR DEMONSTRATIONS.
Splendid Opportunity for Farmers to
Study the Various Makes and
Types of Tractors.
Two large tractor demonstrations,
approved by manufactures distribu-
tors, and other interests, will be held
in Pennsylvania this summer—one in
the eastern part and one in the west-
ern part of the State. There may be
other small demonstrations but they
will be of a private nature entirely
and given by local dealers here and
there, to show only the particular
make of tractor they are handling.
To see all prominent makes of trac-
tors working side by side, farmers
and others interested must plan to be
at Harrisburg, August 12th and 13th;
or at Butler, August 21st and 22nd.
There will be no other tractor demon-
stration in the State this year, where
two or more makes of tractors may be
seen.
All arrangements and plans for
these demonstrations are being made
by the distributors, the State College
and county agents, and the manufac-
turers working together to make the
two big shows a success. The oper-
ating committee, the committee ac-
tively concerned with the manage-
ment and the details thereof, has
three members: E. K. Hibsham and
R. U. Blasingame, of Pennsylvania
State College; and T. D. Harmen Jr.,
! of the National Stockman and Far-
mer, Pittsburgh.
At Harrisburg the allotment for
plowing and other tractor work com-
prises 165 acres on one farm, the
Bonney Meade, four miles north of
Harrisburg, reached by trolley and
improved highway. At Butler 125
acres has been made available for the
demonstration. This land is located
right at Nixon stop on the Butler
Short-line (trolley), six miles from
Butler and a little over twenty miles
north of Pittsburgh. In both places
land is rolling and in various Crops,
so that all the normal farm condi-
| tions, in those respects will be met by
the tractors in operation. :
At both places plowing and fitting
will be done on each of the two days,
from 10 to 12 a. m. and from 2 to 4
p. m., with lectures by experts from
12 a. m. to 2 p. m., each day on trac-
tors and their operations. The re-
mainder of the time each day will be
given over to private demonstration.
It is expected that at least 30 trac-
tors of different sizes and makes will
be shown. They will not compete
with each other in drawbar, fuel
speed or other tests, but simply show
as good a job of plowing and fitting
as they can do, with farmers having
the opportunity to study them in de-
tail as to their construction and work-
manship.
R. M. HOLMSTEAD, County Agent.
Ten Thousand Dogs.
A Brussels correspondent is re-
sponsible for this: “Ten thousand
dogs of war are being demobilized.
They're the real dogs that aided the
Allies as dispatch bearers, watch dogs
and staff dogs. And every one of
these dogs is honored with a military
livery bearing service stripes. Some
of the dogs will go back to their own-
ers, who loaned them for the dura-
tion of the war. A big indnstrial firm
has asked for 300 of them. Others
will stay in military service. The So-
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals will adopt the less fortunate,
those recovered from wounds of bat-
tle, and will see that they have homes
for life.”—Our Dumb Animals.
No Great Discovery.
“The trouble with Jones is that he
hasn’t found himself yet.”
“And he isn’t going to be much of a
find when he does.”
A SQUIRREL’S MOVING DAY.
We had been in camp for several |
weeks—Ilong enough to form a slight
acquaintance with a gray squirrel
family which was there before us.
Some of us had observed a large
bunch of leaves in each of two tall
oak trees. We had not thought of
squirrels as living in these, however.
One bright August day the mother
squirrel, as we supposed, was seen
climbing toward her castle in the air.
From a distance her head appeared
uncommonly large. It hardly seemed
likely that she was storing away a
winter’s food supply. Certainly the
acorns and the hickory nuts of our
grove were not ready for the store-
house then. Soon the active creature
was descending the tree, this time
with empty mouth. With our eyes
we followed her carefully to the oak
some thirty-five, paces off where was
the other leafy castle. Mrs. Squirrel
only half entered this mest of hers,
and immediately came out with a bur-
den. That burden was gray like her-
self, only a little brighter. Our sus-
picion was aroused. We eyed her
closely. Down the oak she came, head
foremost. The journey of a hundred
feet or so between the two oaks was
made. As the graceful creature pass-
ed within a dozen feet of us we be-
came sure that she was moving her
family—that she really was carrying
a baby squirrel in her mouth. Two
legs of the baby seemed braced
against the parent’s neck, one on each
side. Up that tall oak with her load
she climbed with graceful ease and
dropped the baby into her nest. We
saw her make this journey back and
forth until she had carried six little
ones, each apparently at least half
grown, down one tree about forty
feet, across the intervening space one
hundred feet or more, and up the oth-
er oak possibly forty-five or fifty feet.
She did vary the journey several
times on her way back for another
little one by taking the air line
through the branches of neighboring
trees. Once, startled by our nearness,
with a heavy baby in her mouth, she
actually mounted a tree when her
ground journey was about half trav-
eled, went into its top and jumped
from tree to tree until she was able
to place her precious load in its cozy
castle.
We tried to discover the reason for
all this careful activity on the part of
our good neighbors. Possibly it was
because their first home was too near
a roadway on one side and a much
traveled path on the other. Maybe
the increased height of the new home
had in it promises of safety. Or, it
may have been that the large family
had outgrown their first quarters.
Whatever the cause, we were
taught that day that even the wild
creatures of the woods have a concern
for their little ones kindred to that
which human parents cherish for their
children. Then there came to us the
words of Jesus concerning the birds
and the foxes and their homes. Anew
we were impressed with the truth
that the heavenly Father careth for
all his creatures.—B. W. H. Burgwin,
in the Christian Advocate.
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A Useless Asset.
Lady— Why don’t you go to work ?
Don’t you know that a rolling stone
gathers no moss?
Tramp—Madam, not to evade your
question at all, but merely to obtain
information, may 1 ask what practic-
al utility moss is to a man in my con-
dition 7—London Tit-Bits.
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Shameless, Indeed.
“My next door neighbor,” said the
commuter, “has his cellar stocked
with whiskey.”
“A true suburbanite,” remarked a
shameless punster who heard him.
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nothing could be made of a better quality,
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them from spreading at the top.
We have many bargains to offer on all
kinds of summer shoes.
Call And See
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Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-27
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JULY REDUCTIONS
We are having a series of Summer
Clearance Sales. The money saved on
these sales will astonish all buyers. Just
a few prices that will tell you not to
wait too long.
Silk Crepes and
Marquisettes
Dress Goods
One lot of figured Poplins,
In silk Crepe de Chine we
have blue, pink and yellow.
In Marquisette we have black
white grounds, all colors; fig-
ured Voiles in all colors, and
Dress Ginghams, 25¢ lavender and blue. These
all at : . . silk fabrics must 50
be sold at C
Suk Parsee Ladies’ Skirts
Figueed and Siripd In black and white and
colored checks; all sizes up to
30; values $5.00. 3 50
Special Price °
Silk Pongee; Regular Price
$1.25. JULY 75¢
SALE PRICE
Ladies’ Coats and Suits
Every Suit and Coat in this de-
partment must be sold regardless of
cost to make room for winter stock.
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