A Green Mountain Camp 
without. One of 
the party is a 
young artist of 
promise, who 
sketches out¬ 
doors or in the 
farmhouses. In 
the evening the 
whole party 
gathers about a 
roaring fire in 
the big fireplace. 
It is too cold to 
sit outdoors in 
the evenings and 
a fire is needed 
for warmth as 
well as lor cheer¬ 
fulness. Some¬ 
times a c a m p 
fire is built out¬ 
doors. Poles 
six or eight leet 
long are cut, sharpened at one end, and ears of corn 
are thrust on the pointed ends and roasted in the fire. 
There is plenty of music and dancing and card-play¬ 
ing. Even in the winter an occasional sleigh-ride 
takes the party from the village to the camp on moon¬ 
lit nights, and there are dances and a picnic lunch in 
the living-room, with an uncommonly big fire in the 
fireplace. 
While the location of the camp is unusual and a 
great deal of its charm is to be found in this fact, the 
outdoor quality it possesses, shown in the utilization 
of the porch for cooking and eating purposes as well 
as for a living-room, and in leaving unfinished the 
roof of the bedroom under the porch for the sake of 
obtaining sleeping quarters full of fresh air, makes it 
a noteworthy though simple product. The utiliza¬ 
tion of material to be found near the site is another 
rare quality of the camp. It is too frequently the 
case that material at hand is neglected in favor of 
some that is difficult to procure and consequently 
more expensive, because the owner and builder are 
imitating some plan conceived under entirely different 
conditions. T h e 
fireplace in this 
camp, built of 
stone of the re- 
g i o n , and the 
birch bark wall¬ 
covering, which 
harmonizes so 
perfectly with the 
gray and white 
fireplace, are cases 
in point. In this 
c a m p they are 
appropriate and 
inexpensive. In 
a seaside camp 
they could not 
he imitated, but 
a treatment less 
alien to the sea, 
and utilizing the 
material at hand, 
could be used in 
the same spirit dis¬ 
played in the wood¬ 
land camp. An¬ 
other important 
quality shown in 
this camp is the 
economy used, not 
only in choice of 
materials, but in 
construction. Its 
construction is 
strong but inex¬ 
pensive, and for a 
camp used only in summer it is a perfectly feasible 
method of building. For a party of young people 
desiring to spend their vacations in a camp of their 
own this mountain lodge may offer some suggestions. 
If a member of the party can personally super¬ 
vise the construction, the expense will be materially 
lessened. In any case a camp, built by a group 
of five or six friends, involves small expense to each 
person, considering the opportunity that it affords 
for an indefinite number of vacation outings. The 
small cost of it all, when several members of the 
party unite and assume the responsibility of the 
actual building operations themselves; the physical 
good derived from it by all of those who engage in 
the camp construction and conduct, to say nothing 
of the mental rest and revivifying influence of living 
thus close to nature, all indicate a most rational 
method of recreation from which the greatest bene¬ 
fits may be confidently expected to result. 
It is even possible to combine camp and business 
life, if the camp is built within a reasonable distance 
of town or village, as in the case of a New England 
business woman who 
has perched her bun¬ 
galow on a high hill 
within the limits of 
her village, and who 
spends there several 
months each year. A 
rough camp may thus 
be a temporary sub¬ 
stitute for the country 
home desired by many 
business people resid¬ 
ing in the large cities. 
A CALM STRETCH OF THE STREAM IN THE VALLEY 
Green Mountains in the Distance 
LOOKING DOWN THE VALLEY 
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