New Ideas for American Boys; The Jack of All TradesBeard, Daniel Carter
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New Ideas for American Boys; The Jack of All Trades
Beard, Daniel Carter
Amusements; Sports
White flannel trousers and blazers are for the seaside and summer
resorts, not for camp. You go to camp for health and fun, not for
display; therefore leave your good clothes in your trunk at the last
railroad station, to be called for when you quit the woods and once
more enter the land of creased trousers and starched shirts, of
stocks, long skirts, and ties.
How the Women Should Dress.
A woman’s camp-dress should consist of a scant, short skirt, bloomers,
leggings, and stout, broad-soled shoes, loose shirt-waist, and Norfolk
jacket, the latter plentifully supplied with pockets. Whatever
prejudice a woman may have against short skirts and bloomers is soon
overcome after she has tried to climb fallen trees and rocks, or made
her way through thick underbrush, encumbered with the absurd long
skirts of the house or street, or after she has tramped to camp with a
wet and bedrabbled skirt flapping around her ankles, caused by a walk
in the dewy morning, or a paddle in a leaky boat. Women should have
their dresses made of strong material, with “lots of pockets,” like a
man’s hunting-clothes. They will find their capabilities for enjoyment
greatly enhanced by this, and the men, at least, will think them just
as bewitching and far better companions than they would be if they were
dressed in city gowns, hats and feathers, and low shoes.
The Requirements for a Camp.
Each person in camp should be supplied with a good, big-bladed
jack-knife; a woodsman, or, what is about the same thing, a person with
good common-sense, can supply himself with food and shelter, with no
other ready-made tool than a good strong knife.
Salt, pepper, and sugar, must be put on the list; then flour in sack,
oatmeal, cornmeal, rice, and lard; crackers, beans, coffee in tin,
tea in bag, cocoa, condensed milk in cans, evaporated cream in cans,
butter in pail, pickles, dried fruit in bags, a bag of potatoes,
molasses, pork, boneless bacon, and, if you are fond of it, a few jars
of orange marmalade; sal-soda for sweetening “dubs,” and ginger for
medicinal purposes; several cakes of common soap for dish-washing, some
dish-towels, and some soap for toilet purposes; also a tin coffee-pot,
a long-handled frying-pan, a small griddle, a nest of tin pails, the
smallest capable of holding a quart or less, and the largest a gallon
or more; two or three paper pails or water-buckets, two or three iron
kitchen spoons and forks, and a camp boiler, a firkin and a wooden
spoon, also a strong axe and a hatchet.
From the Stand-point of Health.
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