Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1911 — MAKING PLANS FOR CAMPING [ARTICLE]

MAKING PLANS FOR CAMPING

Matter of Appropriate Clothing Must Be Reckoned as One of High, Importance.

With the increased interest in camping out as a part of summer life there are probably few girls who have not tried it and many to whom it is a regular feature of each year’s pleasure. It is only the inveterate campers who do not make mistakes in the matter of what it is best to take on a trip of this 'kind. And the question of clothes has a great deal to do with one's enjoyment. With the right clothes there is little need to think of them at all, but with the wrong kind one is constantly hampered.

Of paramount importance is the question of washing, and its principal rule is, Take nothing that needs ironing. White cotton crepe shirtwaists are good for warm days, because a girl can wash her own, shake it out and hang it up to dry, and it will be as good as new. Aside from this, take only woolen clothes and no light colored ones that will be easily soiled. Mixed woolen skirts and coats are the best, and flannel shirt waists with «. sailor collar. One cannot expect to wear very pretty or fancy clothes and enjoy the free and easy life of a camp.

Even the underclothes must follow the rule of common sense and usefulness, the daintiness of home being left behind. Union suits and woven corset covers are the kind to wear. They can be washed by one’s own hands very easily. And especially will the wise girl keep In mind that her usual delicate and pretty night gowns are entirely out of place in a camp. Outing flannel night gowns are the only kind to take, and very glad will the girl be who remembers this rule when she finds how cold It Is at night in a tent.