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cooking, and serve to keep food cool, 
especially if a small piece of ice is 
placed in one of the dishes. 
In our camping trips we heat the 
stones over the camp-stove flames after 
getting breakfast, place the meat, 
chicken or fish in the lower dish w:th 
stones under and over, put a few po- 
tatoes on top of the upper stone, and at 
noon we have a delicious hot dinner 
ready to eat. The motion of the car 
does the basting and shifting of the 
potatoes that makes them cook evenly. 
Biscuit or beans may be baked in 
the cooker by using both stones, and 
oatmeal cooked all night is very fine. 
The Thermoline jar is very useful 
for keeping food hot, or for keeping 
ice water all day to drink. 
The table-door is twenty-nine inches 
from the ground when open, and is 
held horizontal by a chain in the center 
where it is out of the way. By keep- 
ing spare articles on the near-by 
shelves the table is large enough to ac- 
commodate four persons nicely. 
The lower door is arranged to be 
held shut by a spring bolt that is auto- 
matically pushed down when the table- 
door is closed. 
A hasp and padlock serves to fe 
everything locked up. 
The entire material in this trunk 
cost me four dollars and forty cents. 
This does not include the cooker or 
thermoline jar. 
The table-door should be covered on 
the inside with white table oil-cloth. 
A. D. HARD, Long Beach, Cal. 
Rain Flap For Tent 
UITE often during heavy rains you 
may have found that rain will run 
in under the floor cloth of the tent, 
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toward the tent. To prevent this, sew 
along the base of the tent on all sides, 
a rain flap of light-weight canvas, long 
enough to drag on the ground for six 
inches. If it looks like heavy rain 
coming, place a few small stones upon 
the flap to hold it upon the ground; or 
better still, throw a ridge of dirt along 
the outer edge of the flap. Rain water 
will be stopped from flowing under the 
tent. The rain water that drips down 
the side of the tent will also run off of 
the flap into the ground six inches 
away from the tent floor and be ab- 
sorbed into the ground sufficiently far 
away from the tent so that tent floor 
will not get damp. 
W. A. KIMBALL, Keene, N. H. 
Blanket Patch 
HAD a blanket with a half-inch hole 
in it. I took a round piece of shirt- 
ing wool cloth two inches in diameter 
and sewed that over the hole to the 
blanket. Then I took a heavy piece of 
wool blanket the same weight as the 
blanket, one half inch in diameter, and 
fitted that into the hoie; then I darned 
all three together with silk thread. 
Boiled Potatoes 
IN@St time you boil potatoes try this 
— idea. It takes the flatness away 
from them. Take old spuds, wash them 
then peel them, then quarter them. 
Then boil them done with the peeling in 
the pot too. It gives them a taste like 
baked ones. We got onto this kink 
while making up yeast starter with po- 
tato water for bread-making. 
Boiled Rice 
HERE is the way we do it in camp. 
Soak one-half pint over night in 
pail of water. Then take the cooking 
pot half full of water and get it boiling 
good; throw in the rice and let it boil 
twenty minutes with the lid on. In the 
meantime take an empty tin can, punch 
holes in the bottom of it. When rice is 
done pour into the can and let it drain; 
then pour cold water on it. Let this 
drain off. It surely puffs the grain up. 
It’s a feed for two with milk, or it car 
be added in the stew at the last. 
B JrePariscansnten. ciitistnnniny 
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Useful Articles 
E have found this very useful 
around camp, not only for what it 
was intended, but various other uses, 
such as ground cloth and head covering 
while in sleeping bag, and with the 
smaller section, by doubling it, one has 
a good pillow when stuffed with an ex- 
tra garment. Stuff it with leaves and 
it will make a seat. 
The larger piece is made by sewing 
two pieces of waterproof canvas to- 
gether twenty-two inches wide, forty- 
two inches long, and the smaller is 
twenty-two inches by thirty inches. 
Make a two-inch hem at the top; sew in 
a pair of grommets and four button 
holes along each side. On the smaller, 
sew seven buttons. 
JIM FERGUSON. 
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