TO THE SENIOR G02JS OF DANIEL BOONE. 



It matters little what our politics are or 

 how we would vote or do vote on national 

 affairs, we outdoor people all love the man 

 Theodore Roosevelt because he stands with 

 us, shoulder to shoulder, for the preservation 

 of game and forest, and is one of us. 



Perhaps it is fortunate that those people 

 who spend all their lives in a densely popu- 

 lated metropolis, are, to a great extent, un- 

 conscious of the fcetid atmosphere in which 

 they live. After spending a protracted period 

 in the mountains and forests, our nostrils are 

 shocked by the disagreeable odors emulating 

 from the gutters, the shops, the stale beer of 

 the saloons, and the very persons of the peo- 

 ple on the streets. 



But this sensitiveness of one's olfactories 

 does not long continue. As the ears become 

 accustomed to the roar of the streets, and the 

 eyes to the rank growth of the ungainly 

 buildings, one's nose ceases to record the dis- 

 agreeable odors. As the faculties adjust 

 themselves to the unnatural and unsanitary 

 surroundings of the city ; as the five senses 

 become blunted and dull, their owner ap- 

 pears to gradually lose individuality and ex- 

 ist only as an unimportant atom in 'the turbid 

 flood of humanity. Some men are atoms all 

 their lives, but if the President of the United 

 States can go camping with the boys, why 

 should not all American men who can get a 

 week off follow his example? Many of the 

 Sons of Daniel Boone are quite young, and 

 their parents may object to these little fel- 

 lows camping alone, but there could be no 

 objections if the father of some one of the 

 boys went with them to teach them wood 

 craft and keep them under his eyes, and it is 

 safe to say that the man who volunteers to 

 take a fort of Boone boys camping will have 

 the time of his life, and the boys will help 

 him enjoy himself. 



OUR UNIFORM. 



The boys are dead in earnest about their 

 uniforms. Although the Founder has writ- 

 ten personal letters to dozens of forts, every 

 mail is still loaded with requests for patterns 

 by which to make Boone Hunting shirts. So 

 the Founder has taken his own buckskin 

 shirt and made patterns from it which are 



here given with notes telling how to put the 

 shirt together. 



SONS OF DANIEL BOONE COSTUMES. 



All belonging to the same fort must wear 

 the same colored shirts. When buckskin can 

 be obtained it is more like the real thing, 

 nevertheless the hunters in Boone's days 

 often wore homespun shirts of blue or but- 

 ternut color, and some even wore plaids. Se- 

 lect the color you wish and have your moth- 

 ers, aunts, grandmothers or big sisters cut 

 two pieces for 



HALF OF FRONT. 

 THE FRONT 



like Fig. i. Take care that the edge A is the 



selvedge of the goods, and allow for the 



seam, as shown by the dotted line along the 



edge A. Make 



THE BACK 



of the shirt by folding a piece lengthwise of 

 the goods at B, Fig. 2, and then cutting it the 

 form of that pattern. 



THE SLEEVES 



are each made of two pieces, Figs. 3 and 4, 

 cut lengthwise of the goods. 



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