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VOL. LXXXVII 
JANUARY, 1917 
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No. I 
KEEPING WARM 
AN IMPORTANT EIGHT HOUR QUESTION THAT 
CONCERNS EVERY OUT-OF-DOORS SLEEPER 
does 
plain 
fered 
NE who has slept in 
the open, whether 
the season be 
summer or winter, 
not usually com- 
that he has suf- 
from too much 
heat. I am 
referring, of 
course, to 
the temper¬ 
ate zone, and 
not the trop¬ 
ics. Trans¬ 
lated into 
terms of ex¬ 
perience, this 
means that the question of covering 
is one that deserves and demands 
attention. It gets it, as a rule, but 
the results are not as the amateur 
expects. Wherefore, after more or 
less suffering, he is prone to pride 
himself on the fact that if he wakes 
up in the morning not altogether 
frozen, he has acquired the maxi¬ 
mum of comfort that any old woods¬ 
man has the right to expect. 
In this, as in many other things, 
he is wrong. The old woodsmen may 
not lie on downy beds of ease—he 
isn’t looking for them in his busi¬ 
ness—but he does manage to get in 
a sufficient number of hours of 
slumber every night, and seems to 
enjoy them. 
This is because he has long passed 
the stage of paying attention to the 
petty, inconsequential things that bother 
the amateur. Also he is healthy and hardy 
and is a past master in making himself 
comfortable. 
Which brings us to the consideration 
of how he does it. There is no particular 
secret in the answer. He makes his bed as 
soft as circumstances permit, and tries to 
By Old Camper. 
keep warm. The absence of one essential 
may result in misery. The presence of 
both insures refreshing"rest. 
As Shakespeare says: 
“Weariness 
Can snore upon the flint, when rusty sloth 
Finds the down pillow hard.” 
Maybe so, but that is no excuse for 
putting the assertion to the test, and my 
own experience is that there is more groan¬ 
ing than snoring in any bed not properly 
prepared. 
Now there is no receipt, as in the making 
of bread, or the cooking of a pot of beans, 
to point the way to securing the rest at 
night that is your due, but it may not be 
amiss to tell something of the way other 
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or on occasions to a low record matched 
only by your own discomfort? Not, as 
so many believe, by burying yourself un¬ 
der a burdensome collection of ill-assorted 
clothes, but rather by a wise selection and 
arrangement of blankets or like covering 
built for the purpose. 
Some day, perhaps, the truth that the 
body needs covering, not to keep the cold 
out, but the heat in, will find wider accept¬ 
ance. When this time arrives, there will 
be less occasion to write articles like this. 
But let us come at once to the point of 
the matter. The way to keep heat in is, 
of course, to hold it. That is the secret. 
The wise ones tell us that air entangled in 
the meshes of cloth is the best protector, 
the best conductor or non-conductor 
that is known. The hair or fur of 
animals is an instance of how nature 
has solved the problem. 
Many carpets 
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Forty Winks at “Forty Bel ow.” 
people go about it, and their reasons in 
the main. 
Assuming that you have provided some 
foundation for your bed—and the veriest 
tyro soon learns the importance of this— 
what is the best way to keep warm when 
the thermometer is sure to fall during the 
night to a point that may be only shivery, 
are as purely of 
wool as the 
best blanket, 
but who, in his 
sober senses, 
would choose a 
c&rpet as a bed 
covering? The 
difference is 
that the blan¬ 
ket is loosely 
woven—its in¬ 
terstices are 
filled with air, 
which, warmed, 
protects t h e 
body. That 
principle should 
apply to cloth¬ 
ing as well. 
Let your 
clothing and, at 
any rate, your 
bed clothing be 
