The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1897, Page 17

1ld one find such forests | Here by the silvery stream which | Yosemite! thou, too, we claim, Land of the rose and violet blue, |Oh, SAN FRANCIS sunny land! Oh, surf-beat | With all that nature thee endowed, | And all the sisterhood of flowers; ‘ shore ! nd sands (such music| The world’s emblazoned with thy | Of lakes and springs whose waters | So full of romance of the past, | fame, I flow The mission bells sound here no Fed by big Shasta’s winter snows, | We see thee, and our heads are | Through sunny glens and shady | more, | The Sacramento’s sources meet. | bowed. | bowers; The padre thou no longer hast. | Cradle of ¢ Rocked Millions unborn to The children of this EDWARD ire, thou, it Creator’s > shall bow, >nial land. PERLEY. in the end, may | with inconveniences. ou know, is a na- far from ra nd improve your hea who occupies a tent mmer hotel isas w of days getiing ble place in the e, there is a big Lt employed. it is all the same to ¢ him if game be plen- tifu iammunition lasts, aibeit a sup of ma and Mendocino good oolles St liree obtained rest and times a day, keenest s ¢ little hardship and A bit acon and a 4 camp life. None of our As a consequence A : rd done to “modern conveniences’’ e regions are very popular for fam- i ke can serve us as weil The ladies experience little incon- firo a5 a alde defuiL primitive inconve nience and the children can run wild ,« arenot to be despised. can, if it is good, wholesome | withcut danger of being devoured by j To this genus of “roughing it” that we look for roaming denizens of the forest. camper ll{ere‘ is an in our pilgrimages into the Mails come rezulariy to these camps, indissoluble link be- | “heart of nature,” and if wedo and your table can always be supjlied tween the woods.and not wish to “rough it” in the with the best the market affords. Water A a gun, and msyhap a good oid patural way, what do we is handy and firewood plentiful. In one fishing rod thrown go there or in preference to camp- sense of the word, this method of camp- i into bis “pack as an ing on Van Ness avenue? vt is not camping outatall. Itis necessity living in a tent. But. perhaps, ssential part of this camper gets all the enjoyment out of the outfit. A propo- the crags and peaks of mighty Shasta | it that he d ertainly gets rest e A are unnumbered spots of indescribable and auiet. A wee! t beneath the rea- A without the first of Y besuty. wood's shade, 1 to the murmur of AliEhe nysmngie O | a brock as it tumbles over a ledg: of rock, perbaps witiiout the vear to your life. The shifting second, would amaze ber grandest. There is not only rest in these ws on the soft carpet of aro- bim uospeakably. secluded spots, but something infinitely better, < 1s soothing to the nerves and Whoat a time had i which is found nowhere save close to the heart those fathers of ours of nature. There is that which adds to the who camped Apll the growth of the soul—something whicn lifts us so year round. Th far above curselves and the petty cares of the life erally lived camping. we have left for a day, that we never quite lose the The pattern of real benefit, we never quiteget back into the old, worn rut le difference how you In no other part opportunities and and the way which N even to this day af- Far up in the high Sierras, deep in the southern Coast Range, and among It is there that nature, free from the tram- mels of man’sattempted improvements, is at esti—has under his hat a outaoor life in Cal- Y of our former existence. We are raised so that when we a of.camping which the fornia was marked g who camps simply because out by them, and mer rarely gives much thoug thouah tiey us o Vr iales bt it the directions uncon- e of sciously and from He goes into the woods to shoot, v stern nec: their whether he periorms the orthodox camp- NEI NEs L SVeLy Te. ing role or not. Callit what you please, spect the ideal way return we can view life with a more meaning philosophy,