May, 1922 
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Another convenient stove is the little 
two- or three - burner gasoline stove, 
which doesn’t really burn gasoline but a 
vapor volatilized from gasoline fed under 
pressure. We have used our stove a 
long time, in the winter using it in the 
home for popping corn. The gasoline 
stove, as it is now built, of the right make 
is perfectly safe. The legs of our stove 
telescope inside, and it all folds cleanly 
inside to appear like a tiny metal suit- 
case with handle, the whole weighing 8 
pounds and being in size 4 x 8 x 16 
inches. Also, there goes with it a kit- 
chenette, containing a fry-pan, bread- 
pan, collapsing oven, etc. 
Another nice little roadside stove burns 
wood and folds to an inch in thickness 
with its oven, and can be carried in a 
canvas case that looks like a shopping- 
bag, 10 X 18 inches. This stove is all 
right for certain purposes, having no 
pipe, and the top being an open wire 
grate, you get full benefit of the smoke, 
and so do your cooking dishes. But you 
can’t deny the fact that it is a mighty 
convenient little pal to carry along al- 
most anywhere, and for a quick wood-fire 
stove you have a gem. 
While I am on the subject of stoves I 
must speak a word in commendation of 
the reflector baker as a first-class auto- 
mobile camping convenience. This baker 
in aluminum or heavy tin or even galvan- 
ized material makes a wonderful oven 
for baking, roasting or just merely for 
keeping cooked food warm. On a small 
camp stove the feat of the chef is a hard 
one when it comes to cooking many 
dishes and keeping the food first done 
warm. With a reflector baker oven you 
have solved the problem - instantly be- 
cause this little convenience sets up be- 
side your wood stove or your open fire 
and does everything that any oven will 
do. It is built triangular shape, and the 
bottom and top, inclining at the angle 
of about forty-five degrees, reflect the 
heat from the stove in front so that it 
is all thrown upon the top and bottom of 
whatever is inside the reflector-baker 
o.ven. Our oven is 10 x 20 inches and 
folds to little more than half an inch 
thick. 
'"PHE auto-tent is the acme of auto- 
camping convenience in the line of 
shelter for your party in the open. You 
can use an old-style wall-tent or some 
types of lean - to, tarpaulins and other 
tents, but your trip will never be as 
successful as if you have a real auto-tent. 
There are enough varieties of these on 
the market to-day for you to select the 
one that suits you best. One thing is 
sure, for a tent that will be a real road- 
side home you will like best, after long 
experience, one that attaches to your car 
in such a way that the automobile forms 
one room of your roadside apartment. 
Also, you will never go on two long 
trips with a tent in which you cannot 
stand upright when you wish ; the first 
trip with a low tent will cure you. In 
insect, reptile, wet or sand country you 
will want a floor-cloth, not a sod-cloth. 
A sod-cloth is very well for certain pur- 
poses, but for real protection accept only 
a floor-cloth. This is a floor all over, 
attached to the tent walls, just like the 
floor in a cottage. A sod-cloth is only a 
strip about the lower walls on which 
some heavy equipment may be set to hold 
the walls of the tent firmly down in a 
wind. 
Make sure that your auto-tent is really 
waterproof, and in spite of all that is 
said and done, about half the campers 
get out in tents that leak like riddles to- 
day and write and rebuke a fellow who 
has advised them in the beginning to 
go with nothing but waterproof material. 
Waterproofing has about as many shades 
of meaning as you can imagine, and al- 
most any tent is waterproof against dew, 
but when rain pelts down hard the tent 
needs to be absolutely waterproof on the 
top, and most auto-tents arc made with 
tops specially treated for this purpose. 
W ith some tents you will have to use a 
fly over the roof to secure protection in 
wet weather. 
.A. very convenient style of auto-tent 
that is more than just a tent is the tent 
and bed combination. Here the bed 
forms the foundation upon which the 
frame of the tent rests. For real com- 
pactness and convenience, let me recom- 
mend the balloon silk tent-beds. We 
have used one several seasons for part 
of our auto-camping that is a monoleg 
affair, that is, there is only one leg touch- 
ing the ground, and with various other 
conveniences — like the only curtain fast- 
ener that I have ever seen that makes 
your door opening become as secure and 
opaque as the tent wall — it is the ace for 
convenience. The tent weighs about 25 
pounds, giving room for two double beds. 
The one bed supplied regularly as the 
foundation of this outfit weighs about 
the same as the tent. The whole thing 
rolls to a cylinder 8 inches by about 4 
feet. 
Make sure that whatever tent you se- 
lect is well ventilated, that the windows 
are screened with bobbinett and that they 
are curtained with curtains that may be 
operated from within, while at the same 
time they are stormproof. Tent poles 
are not an inconvenience at all if they 
unjoint and are made of light material 
of steel tubing or wood. Our auto-tent 
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The two most popular articles in practically every auto-camper’s outfit are the gasoline stove and the refrigerator basket 
