THE OUTDOOR WORLD 
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Mystic today is not only an impor- 
tant art center but has all the charm 
of a quaint old-fashioned seashore 
town, as it has always been prominent 
in the ship building, fishing and lob- 
stering industries. For the tourist and 
the camper it has the charm of pic- 
turesqueness in its old-time marine 
surroundings. 
Miss Mary L. Jobe, the owner and 
manager of the camp, is preeminently 
a woman ideally adapted to the man- 
agement of a camp. She has world- 
wide fame as an explorer of the Cana- 
dian Rockies. In various parts of Brit- 
ish America she has done mountain 
climbing and exploring of territory 
never before visited by any other white 
woman. She has gone into the track- 
less forest accompanied only by guides 
and a retinue of pack horses, and has 
done all sorts of wonderful things 
which afford no end of fascinating 
stories illustrated and otherwise for 
the campers. She possesses the spirit 
of the camper and knows how to in- 
spire others. She is so permeated with 
a love of the wild that the girls look 
upon her as the very personification of 
the delights of the wilderness, the 
spirit which leads them to the primi- 
tive and the unknown. 
In striking contrast with her wilder- 
ness experience, however, Miss Jobe 
is of charming personal appearance, has 
had extended experience as a teacher 
and knows the delights and refinements 
of modern civilization. She loves girls 
and with them has spent all her peda- 
gogical life. She is thoroughly cul- 
tured in matters of history, literature, 
music and the drama, and along several 
of these lines she has developed origi- 
nal talent, particularly so in her 
magazine articles and illustrated lec- 
tures, thus making her fame as a liter- 
ary woman equal to that which she has 
as an explorer of the wild. 
The editor of this magazine has been 
personally acquainted with Miss Jobe 
since she was a schoolgirl, and with 
much pleasure has watched her devel- 
opment and successes both as a stu- 
dent of wild nature and in her scholarly 
attainments. Upon her invitation last 
year he spent two weeks at the camp, 
where he inspected every detail and en- 
joyed the companionship of the camp- 
ers in excursions in the wild woods and 
MISS MARY L. JOBE. 
Owner of Camp Mystic. 
on Long Island Sound. The accom- 
panying illustration shows him, famil- 
iarly known to the campers as Daddy 
Bigelow, on one of the fishing excur- 
sions in the large, commodious, sixty 
horsepower, seventy-five passenger 
gasoline launch, the “Northern Light,” 
the property of the camp and under the 
excellent management of Captain Bab- 
cock, who knows Long Island Sound 
from A to Z and from starfish and sea 
urchin to mackerel and porpoise. 
Arrangements have been made ivith 
Miss Jobe by the editor of this maga- 
zine to have the nature education and 
camp recreation utilized along the lines 
