Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1920 — Rann-dom Reels [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rann-dom Reels

By HOWARD L. RANN

SLEEPING IN A TENT SLEEPING tn a tent is a tried and tested method of getting close to nature and 'the domestic mosquito. For some reason which science has never been able to ascertain, the American mosquito operates at his best in a wall tent which has been swathed in netting. Many a man has left an air-tight chamber two flights ap, where he was free from mosquitoes and breath, and sought refuge in a tent out in the yard, onlAte arise in the morning decorated with the pink art craft of the nomadic mosquito and the treacherous red ant. A 7 by 9 tent which has been put «p by a sixteen-year-old son who was In a hurry to go fishing is an inviting place to sleep in during a rain storm. After it has rained for a while the

The Tent Sleeper Is an Early Riser, Owing to the Milkman, the Iceman . and the Insomniac Rooster. tent will lose the waterproof qualities it left the factory with and begin to allean, penetrating streams of water to wiggle down the necks of the sleepers. If it rains hard the water will also crawl under the tent and collect in a large, damp body on the floor, •o that, anybody who gets out of bed to tie up the west flap will have no trouble in telling what it is at once. Internal rheumatism haa been caused by sleeptag in a Inta breakfast tood.

Owing to lack of space in the average tent, the spring cot is used as a substitute for beds. As nobody ever manufactured a cot that was over five feet long the result is that several of the male members of the family are obliged to allow their feet to hang over in a graceful parabola, or else curl up like a telescope fireladder and collect a full set of internal contracting cramps. No man ever slept on one of these cots and becalne the unwilling prey of every homefaring pinch bug without cursing the manufacturer to his latest breath. Tents are constructed of strong fibrous materials which will keep out everything but the wind, rain and maneating insects. When one thinks of the thousands of intrepid American families who go to roost every night in the summer in a dog tent, which is

liable to cave in every time the wind gets above middle C, he will not fear that we are losing those heroic qualities which shone at Bunker Hill and the late Chicago convention. The tent sleeper is an early riser, owing to the milkman, the iceman and the Insomniac rooster, and therefore the practice should be encouraged. (Copyright.)