Camping For Boys

Camping For Boys, by H.W.
Gibson

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Title: Camping For Boys
Author: H.W. Gibson
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Transcriber's Notes.
This book shows a world where character and morality are prized. The
goal of camp is not just to get the boys out the parents' hair, but to
encourage good character and citizenship. Camp leaders are enticed by

the contribution they can make to the boys' futures and are selected (or
rejected) based on their own moral virtues.
There are many practical suggestions for safety and comfort aside from
the absence of modern materials and conveniences, like nylon and gas
stoves.
Medical advice given in the book is from 1913 and may be unhelpful,
often contradicts current practice and involves unsafe or now illegal
substances.
The approximate conversion for prices is 20 to 1, $1 in 1913 is about
$20 in 2004.
[Illustration: Photograph by Joseph Legg]
The Heart of the Camp
Have you smelled wood smoke at twilight? Have you heard the birch
log burning? Are you quick to read the noises of the night? You must
follow with the others for the young men's feet are turning To the
camps of proved desire and known delight.
From Kipling's "Feet of the Young Men."
CAMPING FOR BOYS H. W. GIBSON
ASSOCIATION PRESS NEW YORK 1913
Copyright, 1911, by the INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS
TO THE THOUSAND AND MORE BOYS WHO HAVE BEEN MY
CAMP MATES IN CAMPS SHAND, DURRELL AND BECKET
CONTENTS
Foreword General Bibliography I. The Purpose of Camping II.
Leadership; Bibliography (See General Bibliography) III. Location and

Sanitation; Bibliography IV. Camp Equipment V. Personal Check List
or Inventory VI. Organization, Administration and Discipline VII. The
Day's Program; Bibliography VIII. Moral and Religious Life;
Bibliography IX. Food X. The Camp Fire; Bibliography XI. Tramps,
Hikes and Overnight Trips XII. Cooking on Hikes; Bibliography XIII.
Health and Hygiene; Bibliography XIV. Simple Remedies XV. First
Aid XVI. Personal Hygiene XVII. Athletics, Campus Games, Aquatics,
Water Sports; Bibliography XVIII. Nature Study; Bibliography XIX.
Forecasting the Weather; Bibliography XX. Rainy Day Games;
Bibliography XXI. Educational Activities; Bibliography XXII. Honor,
Emblems and Awards XXIII. Packing Up Index.
FOREWORD
The author has conducted boys' camps for twenty-three years, so that
he is not without experience in the subject. To share with others this
experience has been his aim in writing the book. The various chapters
have been worked out from a practical viewpoint, the desire being to
make a handbook of suggestions for those in charge of camps for boys
and for boys who go camping, rather than a theoretical treatise upon the
general subject.
Thanks are due to E. M. Robinson, Dr. Elias G. Brown, Charles R.
Scott, Irving G. MacColl, J. A. Van Dis, Taylor Statten, W. H. Wones,
H. C. Beckman, W. H. Burger, H. M. Burr, A. B. Wegener, A. D.
Murray, and H. M. Allen, for valuable suggestions and ideas
incorporated in many chapters.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for
permission to quote from the books mentioned in the
bibliography--Charles Scribner's Sons, Harper Brothers, Outing
Publishing Company, Baker & Taylor Company, Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Company, Penn Publishing Company, Doubleday, Page &
Company, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, Ginn & Company, Sunday
School Times Company, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Little, Brown &
Company, Moffat, Yard & Company, Houghton, Mifflin Company,
Sturgis & Walton, Funk & Wagnall's Company, The Manual Arts Press,
Frederick Warne & Company, Review and Herald Publishing

Company, Health-Education League, Pacific Press Publishing
Company.
Every leader, before going to camp, should read some book upon boy
life, in order, not only that he may refresh his memory regarding his
own boyhood days, but that he may also the more intelligently fit
himself for the responsibility of leadership. The following books, or
similar ones, may be found in any well-equipped library.
If this book will help some man to be of greater service to boys, as well
as to inspire boys to live the noble life which God's great out-of-doors
teaches, the author will feel amply repaid for his labor. Boston, Mass.,
April, 1911.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Boy-Life and Self Government--Fiske. Association Press, $1.00.
Boy-Training--Symposium. Association Press, $1.00. Youth--Hall.
Appleton and Company, $1.50. Winning the Boy--Merrill. Revell and
Company, $0.75. The Boy Problem--Forbush. Pilgrim Press, $1.00. Up
Though Childhood--Hubbell. Putnam and Company, $1.25. Growth
and Education--Tyler. Houghton,