Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1911 — fOR AND ABOUT WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

fOR AND ABOUT WOMEN

MEETS PICNIC : NEEDS ALL SORTS OF UTENSILS PROVIDED TO LIGHTEN WORK. Tea Baskets, Luncheon Baskets and Picnic Baskets In Many Quantities Fully. Equipped With Every Outing Requisite. ; Now is the time for outings, picnics and vacation journeyings and it seems fthat the stores have anticipated the iwants of the picnickers and out-of-door luncher by presenting numerous Utensils and contrivances for one’s use and comfort when the hour comes for the packing of the basket and hieing to the parks or the woods Of the open country. There are tea baskets, luncheon baskets and picnic baskets in great quantity, some supplied with cups and plates and others even to the knives and forks and spoons, a number even having utensils to hold liquids and little sections reserved for the salt and pepper. They have the serviettes and the cloth, some of the real linen, but mostly of the decorated paper variety, which are the handiest for such occasions, while one especial basket carries a utensil to keep some dish hot and another for holding the, salads without letting any of the Juices escape, and also there are the patented bottles of two or three varieties that keep other liquids Ice cold for hours, and some fit the baskets have these included in their make-up. There is a little outfit that looks like a leather collar box, which contains a nickel plated tin kettle, an alcohol burner, a sugar bowl and a creamer and an extra bottle for alcohol. It certainly supplies many of the shortcomings that the person on the outing is likely to experience. * Of course the plates that are supplied in these outfits are of the pa* per or wood shell kind, that can be discarded after once used and others can be purchased for the next expedition out into the world, where nature calls us to partake of the fresh air, newly purified, salubrious to .the utmost to which it is possible to attain. And It is always well to remember when you are out in the woods that you are principally there for the ben-

©fit of the air which comes to you purified from every fluttering leaf' and blade of {bass; therefore make the most of it and flu and refill your lungs with it as far as you can force them 'toexpand. .