THE OREGOff SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 24; 1905
IGtrrmn or a cfamilu
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,An fcstel'Gaimpfn Copriy of
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mIT LAD I haven't to worry over tht
.t f jr ways, means and location for the
'summer outing. I solvid that
problem several years ago" remarked a young
professional man, whose family of growing
little people demands country life and outdoor
exercise at this" season. : . .1 ; ..
. "How? By learning to make tent life
at the seaside comfortable and inexpensive.
Don't know anything that can beat itjfor at-
..tractiveness-at;Uast my people thtnjtso.-- -"I
have a four-room fent cottage within
a short distance of . the surf ; the expense is
slight,' and we have the advantage of living
' in our own home. ' V:v"-i.. ''i';':..
"This year several 1 congenial families
have joined us in renting piece, of grounds
They will also erect their canvas homes," and
art ideal, camping colony will be established.
"The cost of the food supplies will be di
vided, congenial companionship will be : as
sured, and the entire expense of our summer
outing brought' downto an amazingly low
And lives contentedly between -The
little and the great.
Feels not the wants that pinch the- poor
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.
HEN the young- professional man quoted began
to. work out the problem of an inexpensive
aummer borne, he decided upon a camping out
ing at the seashore. -
: To'Tent a suitable location upon the bech was y,
As the family was smaller then than now, he began with
i an A tent. Year by year, the alse of the canvas home waa
enlarged,' until tt now comprises a four-room dwelling,
wlth dry board floors, rainproof roof and aides and many
"flbiTconvenlences of-the city home.
. Each season, too. brought something In the way of
, knowledge, gained from experience, so that now X fam-
lly can depart for the ocean aide with the satisfaction
that a delightful outing may be expected. -
The first tent waa pitched on a level atrip of sandy
soli, and It was necessary to dig trenches around It, so
. that rainwater would be carried off.
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PROFITED BY EXPERIENCE '
Experience No, 1, this was marked. The next season.
. the tent a double 'one this time waa pitched upon a
knoll, so that special arrangement for drainage wae not
needed. '.-
In the early experiments It was found that, while A
tents are easier to pttoh, wall tenta are more commo
', dloua and are well worth the extra trouble."' The cheap-
eat quality of 7x7 tents can be purchased for $4 or3, the' .
"ost rupnlng "up to 110, according Ao the weight of canvas.
Tents can be rented for from U ts n't week, but It la
. better to own one from the beginning, without attempting -
to, rent even during the test period.
. i As to utensils, bedding and other furnishings, ex- .
perlence- also brought some valuable lessons, to which .
J due heed waa paid. L''.-v..-!-L' 4-
That beds of pine and balsam boughs make pleasant -
descriptive reading, ut are decidedly knotty, bristling ;
and uncomfortable to the uninitiated, was one of these -
lessons. It was found better to fill the bed tickings with
hay or straw, secured from a neighboring farm and thla
dvtce applies!, whether the tent borne Is at the seashore
or In the mountains.
There should be at least two blankets for covering
each bed,, for uee during cool nights: and a rubber,
blanket to place beneath the bed If 4t is to rest upon
the ground. A galvanised iron pall of generous also
should be proving. lor carrying water, ana, 40 tnia a -
number of kitchenutenslls - may be packed at moving
time.
For the kitchen there should be tin plates and cups,
a broiler, a frying pan, two kettles, two eoftee pots one
ready for emergency,! If the nose of the other melte off
knives, forks and spoons, a small oharcoal burner or oil
slfive jor Inside cooking In stormy weather, an old oven
elide or one borrowed from the kitchen range of the
winter home to place over pltea of stones for cempAre
cooking. ''
When It la possible to pitch the tent where firewood
ran be obtained, a small cookstove is more satisfactory
than any. of the makeshifts. ;
THE FURNISHINGS
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' ' There will be little need to change the general chsr
acter of the simple furnishings from year to year, but
as each season adda Ita experience, and the family, per
hnpe. grows; the canvaa home Is likely to Increase In
roominess and comfort. - .
When the tent reaches the dignity of a two or three
foom home. a tight, smooth board floor will be a neoea
" sary convenience. .
One of the simplest plane tor eonatruoting this enoe
. clally for a portable home to be removed at the close
of v-"tlon is to Secure several lengths of heavy
scantling. Shout 4x4. aa long aa the width of the tent.
Tha scantling should be wt about six or eight feet apart.
Tor a two-room tent, It feet long by U wide, three twelve
fool lengths of scantling will be necessary, set eight feet
' apart, one at each end and on In .the centre.
. Thla ready, aa the outer, ends at the scantling bolt
iw 1 . r . 0
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a block of the 4x4, or two thicknesses of heavy plank,
to raise tba scantling four Inches' or more from the
ground. No other foundation will be required for a can
vas home of auch also; this will raise the floor boards
from six to eight Inches from the ground and allow free
circulation of air beneath.
Upright corner posts will be necessary for wall-tent
construction; at the front, the back and the middle of
the tent, tall poles will be required to support the rldge
pole for the roof.
Such poles not only serve as; supports for root and
aides, but also aa partition aupporta on which the can
vas that Js to drop down for the purpose of dividing the
rooms may be buttoned. Such canvas divisions should
never be nailed in placa,but arranged In auoh manner
that they may be raised when denlred to throw two or
wof rooms Into one for extra light or ventilation. . . . .
The outer canvaa walls should be securely tacked In
- pla.c: wlu n oponlng at each end to serve aa doorways
and for ventilation.
But some persona may make the objection that tenta
presenting only a single thickness of canvaa to the broil
ing sun are apt to be uncomfortably hot at times. True.
nut, this can be guarded against by meana of a double
'"'"k - -
Not only are, the sufl's rays warded off better, but
SJ? 2 ? circulation of air between
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4 THE ROOFING PROBLEM
After the main wall and roof are finished, and the
. canvaa home apparently completed to the eye of the cas
ual oherver. -such ' extra roofing comfort ts easily ar
ranged by using the same rldge pole for the second, or
This second roof should have, at the lower atop
space or a foot or more intervening between.lt and
main roof;- to allow a free circulation of air. It may be
aunnorted by stout corner poles driven Into the ground.'
AVhether the temporary home consists of one or sev
eral rooms, elaborate furnishing Is to be avoided. One of
tn principal reasons for 'selecting such an outing la to
"'m . im auues ui neayy nouaeaeepvig aunng . -
' Cots, campatools and straw-Tiled mattresses may oe
cupy one room, with a little additional furnishing In the
way or lanterns and colls
matter and fancy work. 1
n collapsible tables to hold reading
worx. it win be a combined sitting
room and bedroom, without being cumbered with furnl-
- m, . r
Makeshifts of dry goods boxes and bunks that are '
beds by night and eenta by day may prove satisfactory
for the stationary cabin home; but, for tbe portable can-
vee- structure that Is to be stored In a email space In
some farmer's barn er woodshed, or in some hotel base--ment.
out of season, oollepalble cots and campstools and
mattress coverings that can be emptied ot hay contente '
and folded Into email spsce. will not only prove more
practical at storage time, but more comfortable when
la tre. ,
The eaaoad room In the canvaa home may Include
both dining room and kitchen, with a little corner ed
- Joining the bedroom and sitting room partitioned & ft for
.. a dressing room.. ' . . 4
:. On nay enlarge the floor space and stretch tba ean
tu aldaa ao that, a three or four room cottage la provided.
Tba professional man quoted above, however, found that
tba moat satisfactory plan, -and tba cheapest In tba end,
waa to provlda two gcod-slsed room (or tba main nous
and pitch a llttla A tant adjoining to serve aa a kitchen.
By thla plan, tba .odor ot cooking- war kept from
tht living and sleeping apartmenta, and mora apace could
- b glvsw to bedroom- aeoomreodaikma. -X caavs awning .
can be atretohed between tba dining- and tba cooking tent.
Soma tantera stretch awnings over tba front door.
- Hera, then, la a comfortable and sufficiently commo
dious summer home, easily kept. Vegetables and fruit
supplies, milk and butter may usually be had from sur
rounding' farmers; If there Is no botcher shop In the
neighborhood, meat may be sent on oertaln days from'
-the city. . " :'- y - .. -
- Xt la easy, to Imagine that a camp colony, formed of
a number of congenial families, may enjoy pleasant
and health-giving vacation In thla way, their members
returning to the city Invigorated for the coming days
of business and school.
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" Doing a Spanirrd
THE3 following story is told of Major Kelly, one.
df the cleverest of the Cuban patriots, who was
taken in arms in one of the early Invasions
against the island. Determined to fight his way out
of prison "on his own hook." and a sharp one It waa,.
too, he wrote divers offhand familiar letters to nu
merous eminent politicians of tbe.Tnfted States, and
placed them where he knew they would be overhauled
by the Spanish police. -The bait took, and Major Kelly,
the intimate friend of Mr. Secretary Webster,' waa
forthwith released and sent home. . -
The major's rich epistle to Webster wa here subjoin:
' . Castle de la Punts, Havana, August 20, U6U
His Excellency Daniel Webster,
Secretary of State, United Btates, Washington.
Lan. old Boy You will- be surprised. I doubt
1 not. on receiving a lettrr from an old friend. omi .
one whom you have so often befriended, from thla :
place, but, aa the old ladfr said when abe cracked
- ueria pot, wnat a did la Bid, and wnat IS the use
ktcfelns' un a daurfiLuu eenerallv about it
. chowder. In Marshfleld, I little antlolpated that I
should be placed today in my preaent position. But
; 'tis all destiny. Who can tell today what Is going to
befall him- tomorrow! Had-1 -taken your artvtce,-
V Y.T' '16v -v V :.V
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'wy wWff00' IggfSgSaBgBigf'
nd accepted tbe mission to the Barbery Statea,
things would have been better. l,'t least, would
hot be so barbarously treated as I am In thla prison,
where-they have not left the first sign on my head
or faoe of hair or whiskers. Concha, I am Inclined'
'to think, la. on the whole, a good fellow, and 1 think
If you were te whisper a word to the Spanish Min
ister )n Washington. Calderon de la Bare a. In my
favor, there may be still hopes of my release. Re-
member me to our mutual friend, the Hon. C M,
Conrad, Secretary of War. Tours as ever.
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O CRIPPLES make better emtloves
than the physically perfect? fT
rmatton, to a considerable extent,.
comes from a Western philanthropic experi
ment.' 77 : . ; ' ' v-;-,;T;
Since M ay I, wh en it was organized, m ore
than 300 . crippled men and' women
have made application for employment to
theOhicago Cripples' Employment Bureau,
an adjunct to the Chicago Board of Charities,
and - positions have been found for seventy- .
five. Jt is thought that, within a short time,
nearly all -will pe provided with supporting
employment..
It was without hope of great success that
the unique experiment of such a bureau as
determined upon, and results already attained
are vastly encouraging.-Employers, as a rule,
speak well of help obtained through the bu
reau, and the unfortunates made happy by it
iare loud in its praise.
Opened as the result of suggestions for '
providing. means of self-support for the aged,
the lame, the halt, the blind and other af
flicted persons, it is proving a veritable oasis
Of hope and help JOT the nomads Of industry -
rftiin rnrr wnrntian TtnvxiriL si iiniiiiv itr
e 1 ms p wt vwiwtt i w ' w -r m t J vw ww -'' j j
-wasted opportumty m youthfind -themselves
'without means of livelihood. ' . ' ,
WHEN It was announced that the Chicago Bureau '
of Charities had opened a department for the
express purpose of securing work for unfortu
nates, a remarkable rush ensued of persons anx
ious to secure the benefits of tho novel and commendable
municipal enterprise.
Resembling the last muster of a shattered, beaten reg
iment, thay have hobbled haltingly through the swinging
. doors and put down their names "In the book" the lame, -the
maimed, tho aged and Infirm.
After the bureau had atartod it was determined hot
. to limit Its good work to cripple, but to extend a help
ing hand to all who, through physical affliction, were un
able to compete, without assistance, with their fellows in
the rush for employment.
The need for such agency has long been felt by the
charitable workers of -Chicago, aa it has by those of
every other city... . arm .
They realised that many crippled petteens, then larcely
dependent upon charity, thelri relatives or the municipality,
. would become self-supporting -could suitable occupations
be found. '
That there were plenty of Such occupations the pro-
Jectors of the plan felt confident) certainly there was no
lack of needy persona to fill them.
All that was required was afi1ntelllgent, systerrmtlo'
clearing-house arrangement to, bring the two together.
Of the applicants for whom positions havo boen found
, so far. one man with heart failure received employment
aa attendant in a physician's onice, three one-legged men
got Jobe aa watchmen; a feeble-mlndnd lad discovered
that he could fold paper In a box factory, and . waa
employed at that work. A man whose right leg waa
Facts That arp -
WE Swiss Atplne Club has Just issued statistics ot
I .accidents which took place In the Alps last year.
-One hundred and seventy-two climbers perished.
but, considering that the tourists numbered ISO,
000 the death roll is regarded aa low.- Most of those
killed were Swiss. The Germans come next and after
them the French, Auatiians and Italian-Only five Eng
lish tourists perished. Fatal accidents do not take place
On tho hughest summits, but on mountains which are
not regarded as difficult to climb.
A recent wedding in Brittany was celebrated accord
ing to old customs of that country. The festivities
lasted Ave days", aoM entertaining the 2000 guests cost'
nearly. :' . -1 "
The flounder anjndustrlous fish, and Isys 7,000,000
egf In a year..."".
The. prison .population of India Is only thirty-eight
per lto.iiOO'"' inhabitant, Sixty years' ago there were
130,000 Children' at school la India. Now there are over
-4.000,000. : -
Belgium, where" public libraries 'are almost unknown,
has 190.000 public houses. That; means one publlo house
for thirty -six Inhalilunts. or one publlo bause for. twelve,
mi aoove irireare of age. the publican Included. Dur-
Ing ths last fifty years the population has Increased (0
Ijer cent., and the number of publlo houses 258 per cent.
V- Jf theVa were but one potato In the world, a careful
cultivator might produce 10.000,000,000 from it In ten years,
and1 thus supity the world with seed again.'
Vienna Is to have the largest and finest Illuminated
"fountain In existence. The illuminating power will eiul
renectors capaoie or giving seventy variations ia iigni
effecU every seventeen seconds..
Jfao APavse. OrmxfiPO
missing was employed in a factory where the hands aloagj -i
are used, and one whose left leg waa missing was la
trusted with the work of, operating a small machine rufl
with one jsdaj.... .
' Even those for whom work was sot found at eno)
went away happy with the assurance that everything!
possible would be done to And employmentfof then.'
Some elderly persons said the promise was the first gleam
of sunlight that had come into their Uvea sine they ha4
reached the autumn of their days.
Hugo Krause, organiser and director of . the bt
reau. Is enthusiaetlo over the results already achieved, and
regard such work as a most useful feature of municipal
enterprise.'- ' .. ; ' , v .
"The theory that in a highly complex fabrlo of ctvUl
satlon there are many ways whereby the prescribed actlv
ItJes of even the most deplorably deficient victims 00 .
mlrfortune and fata may be utilised to profitable advan
tage by aoclety is here receiving ample and convincing
demonstration." declared Mr. Krause; ' r -
"Sympathising friends of thla Ventura asserted that
it would prove a failure because they thought ernployem
too Impatient and coldly practical ever to risk their affairs
in the hands of thosa who are lacking in limb or faculty
when they can readily secure the service ot able-bodied)
employes.
- "80 far from thla being the case, I find, from eorras
spondenre with prospective employers of my charges,
that certain deficiencies present a decided virtue in tba
eyes of the most practical cf men.
"For instance, one employer writes me that be de
aire's deaf persons to work in the rvwing room of bis)
sioto factory, De causa deaf people are not addicted to
- wntinr tirao through tba exchan of rcpM-u or
par
a
"Another desires tn imnlnv fiim.UtnH ap 1s.Tm hdva
because such boys will not spend part ot thttr'Urae la
chasing each other about the ahop In boyish games.
"By the eame token, we may presume blind gtrlsl
would be highly eligible to positions calling for popes
folders, because they would nob-be tempted to waste the la
employers' time In primping or in reading novels.
- 'Carrying the Idea still further, it is lu no wise a pre .
poiterous supposition to hold that legless men would be)
' preferable to their more fortunate brothers In positions of
a sedentary character, because such men would act b
tempted to "rush the beer can.'
HONESTY IS INS P) RID
"These are only a few of the many reasons whtctt
-might be adduced why certain deficiencies hold practical
virtu-s.
"The greatest intrmalo vahie of physical deflclenoteej
In the eyes of employers, however. Ilea In the fact that
the consciousness of Inferiority and dependence for a
livelihood on the holding of the Job immediately at hand
tends greatly to Inspire honesty and faithful painstaking
en the part of the employe. - . .
"He knows that his tenure depends on his faithfulness;
to duty, and upon the kindness and the indulgence of bis
employer. Should he be discharged, the probabilities ol
securing another self -supporting position are highly pew
carious.
"We find from inquiry among employers of such per
sons that gratitude, honesty and faithful service chareoa
terlse all such holders cf positions, and this being the)
case, employers are anxloue to avail themselves of the
services ot such unfortunate persons when their business
will admit.
"Honesty, the rarest of virtue, may be enrolled in the)
code of these unfortunate persons te-tbwir great advaae
tags, and In its way the Chicago Bureau ot Charities man
prove of great economic value to the body politlobyi
showing the means of utilising the flotsam and wagtaj
products of society. - -
Told nn Figures
To protect an Invention all ever the world It is aes
-r essary to-take out sixty-four patents la as many" differ
ant countries, the estimated cost of which is tZSOO. .
. Tbe number of horses 'slaughtered tor food ia public
abattoirs in Germany during 1SZ0S was 15.33 mora than 1st
1904, the numbers being M,t34 in 1906. against fO.SU in 104,
- . In . strong oontrast with. the uncertainty about ths)
population of China Is the exactness of the figures gtvea
for the population of Japan In tbe Japanese blue book
for 1906, which has been printed in English by the Japan
see Government. The populhtloa of the Islands cortstt
tutlng Japan proper Is 47, SUITS, and that of the Island ot
Formosa, 1,4C9,S. Japan comprises 100 main isUnda aa4
, nearly (00 small islands, making the name "Island Em
pire" peculiarly appropriate. The total area Of these
islands-la about 181.000' square mUes. It Is noted that
there is a close approximation to equality In the division
of the population between the two sexes.
In all, S40.O0O different species. of Insects are knowa 4
exist on the earth.
Tho highest mountain In the moon Is thought td Tc
at least 1&jm feet in height; that la tuOO fet Mgher tti 1
Moilht Everest-
Quill toothpicks ccme from Frarifs. The largest face
tory in the world Is wear Paris, where there Is an an
aual product of 10,000.000 quills. Tbe factory was start 1
to make quill pena but when these Went out ef 1
use it was converted Into a toothpick mill. - -
Chinese cofllns ars made of timber ' ' t
inches thick.
It la calculated. ' -
S.OOO.000 feei of timber Is uU' - ' -
China.
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777,