MN BEARD 

 ANDTHEMS 



SONS OF DANIEL BOONE. a simple one to make It consists of a hunt _ 



Well, boys, if yon knew how hard it is for m g shirt, leggings and rabbit skin cap in win- 



me to write, out here in the woods on the ter and a hunting shirt and soft felt hat in 



shore of a beautiful lake, where the big bass summer, with moccasins for the feet when 



are daring me to try to catch them, you would they can be procured. The principal thing is 



also know how much I think of Recreation's the hunting shirt ; this was formerly made of 



boys. buckskin, or homespun cloth. 



My fish rods hang on their racks mutely to make a boone shirt, 



protesting against their inactivity, and from take an ordinary outing shirt of blue mate- 



the window of my log house I can see my rial and let your mother, aunt, grandmother, 



canoe bobbing up and down on the waves, or or big sister sew yellow fringe down the 



swinging this way and that, tugging at the 

 anchor rope. 



But if I cannot go out 

 and have fun I must write 

 about it, and the most 

 promising subject is the 

 Sons of Daniel Boone. 

 The news of the great 

 and growing popularity 

 of the new order of the 

 Sons of Daniel Boone has 

 reached the wigwams of 

 the Seton Indians, and 

 their great chief, Mr. 

 Ernest Thompson Seton, 

 called on the founder the 

 other day to smoke the 

 pipe of peace with him. 

 He seemed worried, but 

 we told him that unless <f~& ^ & typewritten one will 



his redskins put on paint and went whooping look much more business-like and im- 

 on the warpath, the Boone boys would not portant than the printed ones would, had they 

 molest them. We also told him that the been on time according to promise. 

 notches in our tally guns stand for good New forts are springing up all around and 



deeds and not for scalps, and that if his In- as soon as the boys get their pins and hunt- 

 dians wished to be civilized and educated to ing shirts there will be so great a rush to join 



seams of the sleeves and above the seams 

 on the shoulders. Wear the shirt outside the 

 trousers with a leather 

 belt around the waist. In 

 September Recreation w3 

 will show drawings and 

 patterns of the whole uni- 

 form and you may make 

 it as complete as your op- 

 portunities will allow. 



THE OFFICIAL CONSTITU- 

 TION 



and by-laws have been de- 

 layed and we are now 

 having typewritten copies 

 made to substitute for the 

 one the printers have had 

 so long in hand. We think 



become good citizens, the Sons of Daniel 

 Boone were ready to devote themselves to 

 teaching their savage brothers how to build 

 log houses and be good. 



Speaking of notches, the official notch for 

 the tally gun is here reproduced, and they 

 will be ready as a reward for all good and 

 manly backwoodsmen's deeds, as soon as the 

 founder decides upon the worthy forts who 

 deserve them. 



THE BOONE PINS. 



we are informed bv the manufacturer, will be 

 ready to issue before this number of Recre- 

 ation is on the news stands. 



THE COSTUME, 



or. uniform, for the Sons of Daniel Boone is Boone to say "aye," or to hold up their right 



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our ranks that we will have to appoint a 

 grand secretary to take charge of the corre- 

 spondence which has already reached such a 

 point that the founder cannot keep up with 

 it and attend to his other duties. 



HOW TO START A FORT. 



Call a meeting of the boys at your house, 

 inviting all those whom you think would be 

 interested and whom you would like to have 

 as companions in such an organization. After 

 you have all the boys together, then you act 

 as temporary chairman and call the meeting 

 to order, stating in a few simple words the 

 purpose of the meeting and asking all those 

 who are willing to join the Sons of Daniel 



