September Tramps 



all-day tramp. The first two or three jaunts 

 will be terribly wearying. But do not get 

 discouraged. The system soon grows 

 toughened to such work. I have known 

 semi-invalids, who at home were exhausted 

 by a walk of a mile, to start on a trip into 

 the backwoods and come out thinking noth 

 ing of fifteen miles a day, with a full back- 

 load of camp supplies. There is nothing 

 dangerous about muscle-weariness so long 

 as it does not amount to exhaustion. Keep 

 on tramping, and you will soon gain the 

 strength to tramp as far as you please. 



Foot-gear is a very important matter with 

 the pedestrian. If you start out improperly 

 shod, and get seriously footsore in the be 

 ginning, it will be all up with you for the 

 season. My plan is to wear the thickest 

 winter socks as a sort of cushion for the 

 feet, no matter what the season may be, and 

 a pair of common-sense, well-broken shoes 

 shoes that I have spent months judiciously 

 adapting to my feet. It is a labor of love, 

 as well as of wisdom, to break in a pair of 

 fall walking-shoes during the summer. You 

 should begin with them as early as the mid 

 dle of July, and then by the ist of September 



