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The newspaper man sent the following- advice: 

 "Four sticks of dynamite are sufficient. Tic them se- 

 curely around your neck, attach fuse, light it and run as 

 fast as you can away from the water to avoid injuring the 

 other snakes and reptiles." 



Camp Hints: 



Going very light, most campers carry soap ; yet it seems 

 that for one reason or another, it is rarely if ever mentioned. 

 There is a word to be said about it, however. 



White soap is easy to be seen at night and, as most of 

 the white soaps float, they are to be preferred to other kinds 

 for camp use. Often the cake of soap is thrown into the 

 canoe, where it runs riot at large, gumming up everything 

 in sight. The added drops of water from a passing shower 

 produce slippery footing and assorted expletives. 



The celluloid or hard rubber soap box is not suited to 

 campers, not only because it has to be handled like an egg, 

 but because it is always larger than the soap. The metal 

 box, though less easily smashed, is made to fit special toilet 

 soaps, which is a great disadvantage. 



A soap bag is easily made from a piece of canvas of 

 suitable length and sides sewed up, after which this small 

 bag, or envelope, was turned right side out. A metal sus- 

 pender button was sewed on the front and a button hole 

 made in the flap. 



In use this soap container has proved its worth over 

 and over again. It will take the largest size cake of soap 

 and is never larger than the soap happens to be. Its cost 

 is but a few cents and you can sit on it and walk on it with 

 pleasure. When you have used the soap you place it on 

 the flap of the bag, not on the sand, and, after rinsing, it is 

 not necessary to touch the soap. Just pick up the bag by 

 the flap and the button, dump in the soap and throw the 

 bag anywhere among your duffle. Again, should the soap 

 bag be forgotten and left out in the rain all night, there will 

 be some soap left and no mess of it over the ground. 



