
A Spring-Bed 
NE of the first things you think 
of when preparing for a camping 
trip is the bed. One of pine-boughs 
satisfies the conditions of a spring bed 
for a few nights, but “it has its day.” 
How, about a real spring bed? With- 
out much cost and labor one can easily 
be made for the inside of an auto. 
This spring bed is made by using the 
two auto seats as a box mattress sup- 
ported on an iron frame. This frame 



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windshield frame 
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is made of half-inch water pipe and 
fittings. It is constructed as follows: 
The frame is made of four pieces of 
pipe, two nipples, two unions and four 
three-way elbows with four uprights 
for legs. 
The two front legs rest on the floor 
of the tonneau directly behind the front 
seat, and the two back legs rest on the 
foundations of the rear seat. Light 
slats are placed on this iron frame, and 
on these slats rest the two auto cush- 
ions whose level reaches about one inch 
above the back of the front seat. 
Above this is stretched’a canvas three 
feet six inches wide, and six feet three 
inches long, strapped to the windshield 
frame in the front, and to the top of 
the back of the rear seat. This canvas 
is for the purpose of supporting the 
weight of the legs and feet, while the 
iron frame holds the heavy part of the 
body. 
This bed is practical as well as com- 
fortable. It takes up little room when 
packed. It is easy to put together and 
take apart; and it assures one of an 
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easy smooth night at the end of a 
bempy, jarring day. 
GERTRUDE I. SUTTON, 
Boston, Mass. 
Outdoor Pudding 
SOME day when you are off on a hike, 
a fishing trip or a camping trip 
and want to give the others a real 
treat, go prepared to cook a pudding 
in th2 outdoors. 

Gubninns 
It merely takes a little time, needs 
a little ingenuity and costs less than 
you would think. 
A tricky little fire may be built that 
will stamp you as a woodsman. Of 
course, the usual cooking fire is per- 
fectly all right, but an air of mystery, 
may be given your famous dessert, by 
building a baby trench fire and doing 
your cooking on that. 
Dig a trench about six or eight inches 
wide, fourteen inches deep, and four 
feet long. Have one end pointing to 
the direction from which the wind is’ 
coming and taper both ends to give a 
draft. 
Line the bottom and the sides of the 
center two feet of trench where your 
fire will be built, with thin flat stones, 
making them level with the top so that 
you can place a double boiler on them 
a little later. 
Then build your fire in the center, 
on the stones, first with tinder of some 
kind, then with small dry chips or 
sticks, and: last with heavier wood. Get 
a good bed of coals and you are ready 
for your pudding. 
If you are on a hike where meals 
are to be prepared, all you need to 
bring along personally for the pudding 
is a fresh pineapple (or a can of pine- 
apple) and a package of tapioca—th 
quick-cooking kind. . 
Bring a quart of hot water to the 
boiling point in the double boiler, then 
add half a cup of tapioca, a quarter 
cup of sugar and a pinch of salt. Boil 
for fifteen minutes and stir frequently. 
Remove from the fire and stir in your 
pineapple which you have grated or 
chopped and sweetened to suit your 
taste. 
Now hunt a cool spring, or better, 
the little stream below the spring. Sink 
the part of the double boiler contain- 
ing the pudding about half way in the 
shallow water or wet earth, cover 
tightly and place a stone on top to keep 
the dish down and the squirrels out. 
When evening mess call sounds you 
will have a dish fit for a king when 
served with milk and sugar which will 
of course be obtainable. 
When eggs and cream and many of 
the other things usually associated 
with puddings are not obtainable, try 
this as a surprise at home some day. 
The stores may be closed for a half 
holiday and the egg jar empty, but this 
outdoor pudding may be made indoors 
equally well. 
RICHARD BOND, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chimney for Fireplace 
E, “Jimmie,” my wife and partner, 
and I put up a log cabin or camp 
at Crooked Lake, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., 
a few years ago, and the man who did 
the work for us had put one up for 
himself before and had experience so 
that we got at once just what was 
right in chimney and fire place; a chim- 
ney with a throat and smoke chamber 
so we had no chimney troubles. 
All this may seem aside from the 
main question of a good fire place and 
chimney, but ’tis not, as a number of 
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