An Adirondack Camp 
THE MAIN HOUSE 
flannels in the morning, afternoon teas at 
Hve o’clock, and often evening dress and 
diamonds at dinner. Convention does give 
way somewhat in the presence of outdoor life, 
but the fashionable world in the Adirondacks 
cares little for the characteristic sports and 
pastimes of the region. 1 he guides do most 
of the rowing, and only a few even of the male 
guests know the charms of the real wilderness. 
It is open to anyone who cares, however, 
to taste to the full the real joys of a life full of 
freedom and nature in this haunt of wealth 
and luxury. T here are still a few campers 
who go to the Adirondacks to shake off the 
cares of social life in town, and who love the 
stream and lake and mountain in their natural 
wildness. For nearly twenty years one such 
camp has been maintained on an entrancing 
little island in a lake as yet uninvaded by 
the fashionable summer visitor. This camp 
bears the fit name of 1 reasure Island, because 
Robert Louis Stevenson, while staying in 
the region, had a mind to buy the island and 
make it his home. In the course of years the 
camp has grown into a little village of low 
log houses and canvas tents. The largest 
house is a rambling one-storey affair of logs 
and slabs. One great apartment, running 
clear up into the peaked roof and pierced 
on three sides with almost continuous win¬ 
dows is at once dining-room, living-room and 
drawing-room. Its capacious fireplace takes 
in a five foot log. Neither within nor without 
is there a speck of paint or plaster, and the 
decorations of the room are all of the simplest 
kind, such as crossed paddles, an antlered 
head, the dried and stretched skin of a great 
trout, or the characteristic wild plants and 
blossoms of the region. 1 he furniture is 
largely the work of those cunning carpenters 
and ioiners, the local guides. Such, for 
instance, is the great dining table, with its 
sturdy cedar legs still ornamented with the 
bark; such, too, are many of the chairs; 
while the unpainted pine “dresser” shows 
an array of the simplest glass and china. 
Beneath the same irregular roof that covers 
the living-room are the bedrooms, all of good 
size and each with its fireplace. I he bed¬ 
steads are also the work of local carpenters. 
A wide porch, partly roofed, runs all round 
the house, and in all weathers save the coldest 
the family lives out of doors. Meals, even, 
are sometimes served on the porch, and in 
still weather one may read in the open air 
at night. 
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