OUTDOOR LIFE AND THE FINE ARTS 



On a higher plane artistically are the Historical 

 Pageants of Carmel Mission, at Garmel-by-the-Sea, 

 that of the Southwest at Los Angeles, and that 

 of Fra Junipero Serra at Monterey. The religious 

 or Mission plays, too, at San Gabriel, San Jose and 

 Santa Clara are events of genuine artistic import- 

 ance. Oakland is planning a Pageant of the Landing 

 of Columbus for October, 1915, which should be 

 well worth seeing. The Cabrillo Celebration at San 

 Diego, the Aztec Sun-Fete at Phoenix, Arizona, the 

 Montamara Fiesta at Tacoma, the G9lden Potlatch 

 at Seattle, the Lantern Festival at Pacific Grove, and 

 the Portola Festival at San Francisco are variously 

 interesting and distinctive. The last named celebra- 

 tion takes place every four years and is becoming 

 more spectacular and popular at each recurrence. 



Not a little of the freer opportunity for art to 

 develop in the open comes from the growing custom 

 of "tramping" and "camping." There are many 

 clubs, large and small, whose chief interest is in 

 social excursions afoot. Perhaps the most impor- 

 tant are the Mazamas of Portland and the Sierra 

 Club of San Francisco, both of them mountain- 

 climbing clubs with summer outings of a month 

 or more in the Sierra, whose activities include many 

 day or week-end walks as well. The "camp fires 

 of these organizations in the wild are famous for 

 song and story, bringing out much artistic talent 

 among the membership. 



No visitor can gain a full insight into Pacific 

 Coast life who has not seen a typical summer camp. 

 Reference is made not so much to the tent hotels, 

 like those which are established in the Yosemite and 

 elsewhere, as to the private or club camps which 

 abound everywhere, from San Diego to Seattle. In 

 these establishments there may be tents or shacks, 

 for the more fastidious and old-fashioned to live or 

 sleep in, but not a few sleep absolutely in the open, 

 screened from profane eyes by canvas or boughs, 

 but roofed only by the sky. These camps are often 

 veritable fairy-lands, with dancing Japanese lan- 

 terns, and gay canvas. In the midst the camp-fire 

 offers cheer and welcome warmth, for the evenings 

 and early mornings are often cool, even during the 

 hottest spells of dry day-heat. The camp-fire, here 

 again, is the scene of many an evening of delightful 

 entertainment. 



There are numerous clubs which have made the 

 summer camp a special feature of their life. The 

 greatest function of this sort, and one which is a ver- 

 itable "date" for the whole local community, is that 

 of the Bohemian Club in its grove at Bohemia near 



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