The evening world. Newspaper, June 9, 1922, Page 28

\ By Caroline B. Dinwiddie. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) Pubilehing Co. S YOUR “vacation problem’ still, un- solved? Is half the anticipa- tion of your ‘outing being depressed by worry over how com- fortable your room at the hotel may be or how satisfactory, the meals will be this year? Is the other half of your forward look clouded over by thoughts of ex pense, the bills you will have to pay and the tips you will have to bestow, to say nothing of the wardrobe of appropriate clothing that mounts in cost up to dollars, and dollars and dollars? Ever wish you could simply run away somewhere and just “‘loaf'’ your vacation away in any spot that might happen to strike your fancy—'‘gyp- sying”’ as !t were, but with all crea- ture comforts really necessary to your peace of mind and body? Ti can be done. The open road and the simple life can be yours, without hardship, It only you have a car you can gratify every wish for a real, com- fortable good time. You can choose sea coast, forest or mountains for your sojourn—and change the scenery any ume you like, Whether you car is large or small, you can fit yourself out so that you ean carry your house and your motor boat with your automobile, and be ready to stop any minute on the edge of some inland lake or stream, whero ‘the pine needles will make your car- / Pet, and the failen limbs your fire, while the trout that will jump at twi- light may be caught inside of half an hour after your canoe ts launched— Plenty of them for both supper and breakfast. You don't even need to bother with aofire, except for its warmth and the ‘harm of it, for the modern camp out- fit always includes a two-burner gaso- Mine stove, on which a comfortable meal can be prepared fn an incredible short time. But before 1 attempt:to tell you » About all the clever, convenient and thoroughly practical devices which add zest to the joy of outdoor life, my conscience demands that I warn you that the microbe of camping |s @ wonderfully active bug! deulated and you are lost! Friend husband and I, are con- firmed hoboes. We've ridden hun- dreds of miles on pony-back over the mountain trails of the Philippines, seeumbling down boulder-strewn beds of streams, o~ skirting hillsides where a@ sheer wall of 1,000 feet rose on the one hand and fell another 1,000 feet on the other—a six-foot path looks very narrow under these conditions, when your pony just will keep to the outer edge! ) But when we came down into the valley at nightfall, the rice and hard tack and stewed chicken served us on banana leaves by our Filipino hosts tasted better than any meal any hotel ever served, for we had the appetite of the camper; and the little mipa shack to which the head of the village courteously escorted us, with its springy floor of reeds which creeked every time we turned over in Once in- THE CANOE VARIES ‘4 ~f\ THe monotony Hor MOTORING \ wenrereereSan evans eee ceae tose ame uase arene With a Car, a Trailer and a Canoe, You (Can Live in Comfort Wherever You Go, and Go Wherever You Choose, Saving Money, Gaining Health. our blankets, furnished an {deal rest- ing place for our tired bodies, while the roar of the turbulent river out- eide lulled us to ever deeper slumber. We've walked all day, with our knapsacks on our backs, in inland Japan, climbing up and up to some exquisite little mountain-side inn, where we found a hot bath and a supper of rice and brook trout and tea, which we ate as we sat on our heels (as best we might) on the soft, ten-inch thick mats that formed the floor covering, and looked out over the dainty, watercolor Iandscapo stretched at our feet in the valley A s\\" \ below. When night feil, the little Japanese girls brought us futons (heavy comforts) and we just lay down where we were on tho floor, and slept the sleep of the healthily tired. iq I could go on and on, painting these lovely outdoor pictures which “hang on memory's walls"? but— The usual camp outfit for the tyro 1s a tent. The eight-foot, square, one-pole tent, with spreader poles at the top and a sewed-in floor is the most comfortable, and costs about $40, It 1s provided with mosquito-net window and door, and a fly or awn- ing in front, which makes a roomy dining room which should be suppieid with a very full and long mosquito- netting curtain, sewed securely to the three edges not attached to the tent ftself. A curtain of canvas comes with this tent which may be snapped onto the upper edge of the awning on the side where it is needed to keep off the wind or rain, We slept 126 consecutive nights in such a tent down south two winters ago and did not want to go into the house when we reached home on the 127th day. If your camping 1s done with a tent you will never regret the purchase of two single air mattresses—don't be THE COMPLETE EQUIPMENT “PACKS” FOR THE ROAD tridges, while your coffee and vege- tables a vas bag, for three, four or ¢ persons. A set for four people costs a little over $20, but is persuaded to take a double one, for they are not nearly a8 satisfactory; they can be blown up with the ttre pump on your oar, if you have one, or with the hand pump which comes with them. These mattresses may bo laid aide by side, and the same covers used as for a double bed. They cost about $15 apiece In addition to your gas etove, you will need a sheet iron oven (costing about $4), or, if you are going to build camp fires, one or two reflector ovens are desirable, since you can bake biscuit in one and at the same time bake your trout or your par- cooking in pots hung over the coals. Complete sets of aluminum cook- ing utensils and all the table furnish- ings you need—plates, cups, soup bowls, knives, forks and spoons, ¢ fee pot, salt and pepper shakers, &c, come nested snugly in a single can- ‘n more ell worth the price, as economy in spa A your Ww eat Importance ing your car are indispensable » eat one appine sts about $8 very good camp Adjustable rac boards each you to pack y our blanket-roll ra, ete., p our er from the last eatherold re ods people t is about $5. However, if you wapt Seg, SA ae _—<% t a piece buys and table ami t bout the size c; ull very well to travel the TRAILER 1N CAMP BECOMES A COMFORTABLE en THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1922. gypsy trail in a way which will make you never want to go home, get a tr ‘There are a number of these on the market whose price ranges from $150 to $1,000. Our present outfit inclu a medium-priced tratler (it cost $ ur ago, but they kave gone down an now be bought for $150 less) hich weighs 1,000 pounds, and can be fitted to any car by means of a hitch that 1s very satisfactory, Shut up, it looks Uke an ordinary delivery car, such as those used by small- town bakers or milkmen, except that tt has only two whee When a camp site has been chosen, it is detached from the automobile in a moment, rolled round into any de- sired position, and the beds are let down on elther side of a central four- foot aisle, very much as the berths are lowered into place in a sleeping car. It takes just about five minutes to put your house In order for the night, as against the full hour required to put up your tent, blow up your mat- tresses, make up your beds, &c ‘The beds in the trailer have springs and delightfully comfortable mat- WOUR NIGHT tresses and four big pillows and thore are large, netted windows beside each bed, as well as at both ends of the Vehicle, It rains during the night, out- +.de canvas curtains may be let down by means of inside cords, The door or the cupboard at the forward end of the trafler lifts off the hinges and, When the legs lke those of a card table are lowered, you have your dining table which fits between ths beds, with plenty of room at either end for a folding chair, so that six People can eat inside with perfect ease, The top of the cupboard is of rheet tron and holds your gas stove nicely, so, if it rains, you can pre- Pare a meal and eat it without ever putting your foot on the ground, since you can reach your stove, your refrigerator and your supplies, which were all packed into the cupboard, There are supplied with every trail- ¢r a gasoline stove, @ nested alum- imura get for four people, ® refriger= . ator which keeps ice hours, four camp chairs with com- fcrtable backs, a dish pan, a wash oasin, a tent to cover an outdoor to}- let, and a number of other little o veniences when fol bag, and it takes only a few minutes to heat a bucket of water on the gas- oline stove, after the dinner is over, so that problem of all camper: THE FRESH AIR OF ALL OUTDOOR’ forty-eight There is an electric light in the ceiling, between the two beds, which is connected with the battery, uf the automobile, * We have a rubber bathtub which, ed, fits in Its own canvas how to get a bath, is easily solved. We carry with us always an extra which Is fourteen feet square and y be staked down so as to cover the greater part of the trailer and the car and gives us a nice little room between the two, where we cook and eat, unless it Is raining hard when we go into camp and it Is not possible to put up the fly. We keep an accurate account of all expenses when we take these camp- ing trips, and are amazed at the moderate cost of our outings Last summer we left our home near New York City on the 28d of August, and in the twenty-six days we spent in going to Maine, camping in the woods seventeen days, and re- turning on the 17th of September, the two of us spent exactly $128.41. This included gas and ofl for the car, all food supplies and hotel bills for two nights when conditions were such that we could not put up our camp. “DINING TENT” CAN BE ARRANGED To suit ANY KIND OF Photos by Dinwiddie. While we were in the woods our party consisted of a friend, his wife and son, as well as ourselves, and the entire cost of supplying our table for ehe seventeen days was $70, or $14 each. We took in with us every imaginable kind of canned goods, but- ter, eggs, bacon, ham, flour, meal and all sorts of preserves, maple syrup, cheeses and crackers, so that, with the fish we caught, we had a most varied and delictous series of meals. Where else on earth could one have seventeen days of pleasure for the sum of $147 You would pay that much for one day in a seaside hotel! I've spoken of our ‘motor boat," but have not explained that we carried on the top of our car, In @ epecially designed frame, a Sponson canoe which held all five of us and about seven hundred “pounds of baggage comfortably when we crossed tome of the beautiful litle inland lakes near Moosehead, but the men did not have to paddle that load, for we have an Evinrude motor, which has its own little frame on the side of the running board when we are travelling from place to place. One thing more, dear sister-camper- who-is-to-be—I don’t have to say anything to my brother-camper, for he is always ready to pack up his rod or his gun and start for the open, Disabuse your mind of the belief that camping is hard work, or that there is anything to be pfraid of in the great out-of-doors. It is just one great big frolic, if you'll only look at it that way. Even washing the dishes js play, if you put on a bucket of wa- ter to heat when you have taken up your dinner; it heats while you are eating; a spoon of soappowder fhroww into the boiling water takes off the grease by magic. And then things taste so good. Friend husband will praise your-efforts in a way he would never think of doing al home, and you will go to bed under the stars or the moon with a sense of rest and peace that IM warrant Will pay you better than all the hectic pleasures (7) of any other kind of vacation, I said “Don't be afraid of anything.’ The first time you hear the laugh of a loon aa he dives in the lake on which you have camped, or the hoot of an owl in the tree above your head, or the splash of a deer as he goes into the water to dvink, you may be startled, but don't be scared. None of them will hurt you, and they would fly or run away from you much more quickly than you could from them. Just realize that Nature is always kind and enjoy every minute of your vacation ae clam to her heart,