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Vacation 
If you want to really enjoy your 
vacation this year, get this OUTO- 
DOOR Portable Cottage, and “live 
like a king,” in your own private 
home, with all the conveniences a 
summer home could give — a roomy, 
comfortable, cozy cottage, com- 
pletely screened in — full protection 
against heat and storm — an ideal 
summer home in every respect. 
OUTODOOR Portable Cottages are 
made in various sizes. The con- 
struction is of v'X)d frames, covered 
with best grade waterproofed canvas. 
It has a double roof, with inside 
and outside curtains. The outside 
curtains may be extended as awn- 
ings, and serve to close up the cot- 
tage in stormy weather. 
OUTODOOR Cottages are made up 
in panels, and anyone can easily 
erect them. Assemble the roof on 
the ground, push it up, insert the 
wall sections, fasten all parts to- 
gether, and move in. Thousands 
are being used everywhere — at golf 
clubs, resorts, etc. 
10'xl2' OUTODOOR Cottage, as illustrat- 
ed, packed ready for shipment — $140.00. 
Sectional floor, $2.5. (10 extra. Alsu made 
with wooden walls, instead of canvas, and 
with kitchenette attachment. tVrite for 
complete description. 
OUTODOOR WEEK- 
END AUTO-TENT. Can 
ho carried on running 
board. Price complete, 
with telescope poles, 
stakes and guys, $10.00. 
U. S. Tent and Awning Company 
EDW. P. NEUM.W.N, President. 
EDW. R. bITSINCICR. Viee-Pres 
CIIAS, li. DEPEERT, Viee-Pres. 
CEO, J. PIEKINGTON, Treasurer. 
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DOUBLE SERVICE KITS 
EACH ITEM IN AN AUTO-CAMPER’S OUTFIT SHOULD 
BE MADE TO SERVE TWO OR MORE PURPOSES 
By F. E. BRIMMER 
HERE are a good 
many paradox i- 
cal things about fol- 
lowing the trail of a 
motor-gypsy, and not 
the least among these 
is the fact that the 
less outfit you carry 
the more fun you 
have. One might sup- 
pose that the more 
equipment you took, 
the more enjoyable 
time you might have. But this is decid- 
edly not the case as experience will early 
teach you. 
Reduced to its lowest terms, the auto- 
mobile camper who goes forth with the 
least equipment cinched upon his car — 
still lacking nothing to make himself 
comfortable along the highway where 
night finds him — will get the most out of 
his trip. And conversely that auto-tenter 
who clutters his automobile or camping 
trailer or camping car body with the 
hodge-podge of everything will be pretty 
sure to get almost nothing, or indeed 
worse than nothing, out of his trip. 
During the spring the writer has as- 
sisted an average of more than 500 mo- 
tor-gypsies a month to outfit for the par- 
ticular excursions along the “open road” 
which they had planned for this sum- 
mer’s vacation period; and coupled with 
much auto-gypsying of his own, he be- 
lieves that there is at least one rule that 
will be most helpful for any prospective 
auto-camper to follow. 
This might be called a double-service ! 
maxim. 
Following this maxim will help }'Ou ; 
keep down the weight and the cubic 
inches of your load, and still get from 
your outfit all the comforts necessary to 
make your camp a mighty good place in 
w'hich to live. Indeed a good motor- 
camp ought to be just as cozy as a sum- 
mer cottage. 
But how shall we apply this double- ' 
service maxim to the selection of equip- 
ment for our adventure of motor-gysy- 
ing? The answer is easy, and quite oh- ; 
vious : 
Try to auto-camp only with equipment 
that will serve more than just one pur- 
pose. Take a tip from that most useful 
jaw-bone of the donkey, which not only ; 
served as a mill to grind up grain, but j 
later also was commissioned as a weapon I 
with which many enemies were killed. I 
C UPPOSE we begin with the matter of 
^ clothing. Instead of taking one kind 
of outfit for plain camping, another for 
touring away from camp and perhaps 
stopping for dinner at a first-class hotel 
where you must appear natty, and still 
another extra coat and trousers for hunt- 
ing or mountain climbing or fishing, one 
one might far better select wearing ap- 
parel that would serve for practically all 
purposes on his trip. A suit of water- 
proof material, either with riding 
breeches or knickerbockers, with coat 
preferably of the Norfolk style, may 
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Bacon, eggs and ice cream along the road 
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