essary for comfort, yet which is not so much as to become a burden. The 

 ideal camp is the one in which each person is perfectly comfortable, with 

 no thought of the trouble which must attend the return home. This con- 

 dition comes only through a thorough knowledge of how little is really 

 required to make a perfect camp. 



In California one need never prepare against rain. That cuts out a lot 

 of baggage and clothing. Then, again, unless one is especially desirous of 

 privacy, there is no need for a tent, for a handy man with a sharp ax can 

 prepare a shelter from brush in half an hour that will last as long as one 

 desires to make camp. Blankets are good things sometimes to have under 

 one, but they are not essential to comfort. Cooking utensils are at hand 

 everywhere in California if one but knows how to use them. There is noth- 

 ing better for cooking ham, bacon or any kind of meat than a sharpened 

 bay laurel stick, which holds the meat over the coals and at the same 

 time imparts to it a fine flavor. A frying pan is handy and so is a coffee 

 pot, but they can be dispensed with if one can find a good tomato can. You 

 are indulging in a luxury when you carry a tin cup, for there are many ways 

 in which you can get a drink without such a utensil. 



But if one be going out camping to spend his or her vacation in some 

 spot long selected, and if that spot is to be the home for a month or more, 

 then it were wise to prepare more than a tomato can and a pocket knife. 

 Get a frying pan, a coffee pot, a tin cup and some wooden plates, together 

 with knife, fork and spoon, and if you desire to be right luxurious, get also 

 a little stew pan. These, with a pair of blankets and a brush wickiup, will 

 make a home where two congenial souls can spend a few weeks in almost 

 primordial bliss. 



Thousands of inviting spots all over California are calling the people 

 of the cities to come out for a while and forget that they have to chase 

 dollars. These spots are telling you that if you come and visit them for a 

 while every year you will be better fit to chase the dollars during the rest of 

 the year. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is a truth that every 

 man understands and it takes but a few days of play out in the wonder- 

 ful air of California to make one feel that this is the best State of all to 

 play in. Here one becomes rejuvenated; one throws off the cares of life 

 and draws in renewed vigor as if from the fountain of youth with every 

 breath. A man can leave San Francisco on the morning's train and by night 

 be settled in the deepest of wilds in a camp where he will be free from in- 

 terruption the whole summer long if he so desire. 



Nature Stu dy in California. 



CHARLRS KBELBR 



IN these days of business stress and strain, of syndicates and corporations 

 exacting their pound of flesh from every man they hold in thrall, of in- 

 tensive work and craving for the stimulus of excitement and sensa- 

 tionalism, there is marked one only path to salvation. It is the road 

 to the hills and the fields, the highway to the wilderness. By traveling 

 this road may the city dweller find not only respite from the fever of mod- 

 ern civilization, but an open sesame to a saner and more temperate life. 



Purer air, the rock or turf underfoot, the sky overhead, unadulterated 

 by the grime of cities, the beauty of trees and flowers, the joy of bird songs — 

 all these are the gifts for him who finds the open road. And in California 

 how easy a road it is to find! Go where you will beyond the pale of the 

 city and a pageant of beauty awaits you. 



Whether it be in the wintry days of verdant hills of velvet, of canyons 

 sheltering the wild flowers, of singing streams rioting with their plethora of 

 water, or in the sober days of summer when hill slopes are waxing dun and 

 the gray fog alone brings moisture to the parching plains, there is a dis- 

 tinctive charm to the landscape of California which marks it as a power 

 over those who live under its spell. 



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