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 



