Judge — January 6, 1923 — page 5: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Drawn by Gu Owner—I walked down this way to the coast years ago. Speed Enthusiast—Good heavens, man; that must have seemed miles to you. Tenting To-night by the Old Motor Car 2 DECIDED to make a tour in ur car. It strange how apidly news travels. Within a al thousand people had heard about it and decided to do the same thing. How little originality there is in the world! Our tour was to be some- where west of St. Paul, where the best road is like the worst, and where each city and town boasts a “Free Municipal Camp Ground.” The great free spaces of the West were just what we were after. Touring amid Eastern hotels had dis- closed very few free s The only thing free in any Eastern motor hotel is the folder telling you how to get to the next one. Probably that isn’t. It’s hidden in the bill. is ut West, we found the free spaces, all right— and the very first night. One of the proved to be under the car. We had an ingenious tent which projected from. the top of the automo- bile, converting the car itself into a part of the interior. With the aid of the side curtains, the wall made by the ear was opaque — enough down to the running board. Then there « was a hiatus. This fact I discovered on my return to our abode after a trip to the free municipal water tap for a bucket of alkali. I discovered it first by observing various by Walter Prichard Eaton r cars with similar tent devices. The occupants had no privacy below the knees. I hastily arranged a dunnage bag barricade. dd that the average windshield is tolerably translucent, and when not equipped with Holland shades reveals certain details of domestic life as lived in a motor tent in a free muni amp ground, which are only stimulating to the over-stimulated. It is difficult to love your fellow-men_ in their undershirts, or your fellow-women when removing dust from their faces with a cold cream rag, and then examining the rag to see how much came off. Tpeceacenee ina free municipal camp ground it is best to have driven 3¢ Ve “This car has twice the speed it used to have, Henry.” “Sure it has, Lizzy. I took the engine out—that was what held the darn thing back.” miles that day, and then stopped at the drug store a Mrs. Winslow cocktail. ‘The. principal obstacles are (1) Phono- graphs which tourists take into en the wilderness, so they won't have to lifornians (10) Other sn the: silence; about nels, (4) Crying babie: ; (6) Other insects; (7) People who “y can sing; (8) People getting up to make an ea y start; (2) Conversations of climate; (3) (5) Chronic their (9) Smells; The next day I bought a rope so I could string our tent between two trees, and at 5 aH | Md ¥ SAMMweoy M. looking side road and lonely spot twenty-five mi municipal camp ground. XS ) Mm. aft AS )Apty™ we turned down a likely rched out a from a free We no longer wanted a spot that was free for people. We wanted a spot that was free of them, Some tourists tried that on my land in the East last autumn, [drove them off. I might add that the best part of our motor trip was when we left the car ina stable and traveled for two weeks on horseback. We had forgotten how much pleasure can be derived from Confidence carries its own crew. sat Another bard is out with alotof lame poetry bound in limp leather.