2. Wipe each plate and other utensils as clean as possible with paper napkin, and throw napkin in the fire. 3. Scrape out all cooking pots. If any material has burned on them, boil them out with one ounce of washing soda to one quart of water. 4. Pile all dishes thus prepared beside the two dish-pans. Partly fill the dish-pans with boiling water, putting a heaping teaspoonful of powdered soap in one. 5. Wash dishes with dish mop, and rinse in other pan of hot water. If the water is kept hot one girl can keep two busy drying, and the whole operation for a party of four should not take over ten minutes. If unskillfully done, without sufficient hot water or preparation, it is a disagreeable task. Try to make it a pleasant one. The coffee pot should be frequently boiled out with washing soda. The wire broilers may be cleaned by rubbing them with ashes from the camp fire. In nesting a blackened cooking pail, wrap it in paper to prevent soiling the inside of the pail into which it fits. Use the fewest dishes possible in cooking and you will lighten your labor. Use the same plates for different courses, rinsing them with hot water. Be sure to carry in your dish washing outfit, washing soda, powdered soap and dish mops. "Dutch Cleanser" is very useful in cleaning dishes, pots and pans. After washing up for the night, put utensils and provision box together and cover with rubber cloth to protect them from the weather. Cleaning Up _This is important!_ If you leave your camping place littered with tin cans, paper, etc., you will be spoiling that place for future campers. Burn all waste paper and string. Bury tin cans and empty bottles. Bury food scraps and refuse. _Be absolutely certain that you have extinguished your fire._ You should take pride in leaving your camp site so clean that not one evidence of your camping remains except the ashes of the fire. [Illustration: PHOTOGRAPH BY G. CLYDE FISHER.] _Climb the mountains and get their good tidings._ _Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves._ --_John Muir._ MOUNTAIN CLIMBING BY ELOISE ROORBACH, GARDEN EDITOR OF "TOUCHSTONE."