Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1916 — LIVE LIKE ADAM AND EVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIVE LIKE ADAM AND EVE

Spend Two Months inMaine Woods to Prove Man Can Survive in Wilderness. __ I Boston.—The weather sometimes gets cold in the Maine woods. In fact, it is said the mercury hibernates in the thermometer bulbs when the spfuce trees start popping. And there are wild animals there, too —deer, porcupine, rabbits and even bears. There is no steam heat and there is not a delicatessen about the place.

But all these things did not prevent Walter F. Estes and his 114-pound wife from proving to their friends that they could live in the woods for two months, kill their own food and provide their own clothing, and come out in better health than when they went in. ”’*~ The lives of Omg and his mate Ik of the paleozoic age were copied by the Estes couple. In the warmer weather when they- first entered the forest their clothing was made of leaves and vines. Then came winter’s blasts and snow and ice. They wore then the skins of deer and other smaller animals they had caught in deadfalls. Mrs. Estes, by the way, was responsible for the first deer capture. One had run afoul of their trap and, when- she discovered it, the animal was about to escape. Mrs. Estes flung her arms about its neck in true primitive style and hung on, too, until her mate arrived. The flesh of the animals they trapped, with fish, nuts and herbs, made up their menu for the two months. Mrs. Estes came back to civi-

lization —centered in Boston in this case —heavier, and insisting that woman can stand hardships today just as well as her “superior” mate;