Show THEIR LUCKY DAY how members of camping party found a cook finding of manna in the wilderness Wll derner or getting gelling water from rock would not have been wonderful after that experience zt it night blight seem reasonable to believe that in the wilderness the troubles quil and trials caused by cooks or the want vt vf cooks could bo be comfortably left behind but according to io mrs mary rob erts IU Iti such Is 13 not the case so essential a place in the routine of a large camping party does a cook occupy that trouble with that important personage Is a dire calami calamity jy in tenting tonight mrs rinehart ni gives her views on the subject and describes the nerve racking experience of trying to keep hold bold of an unstable cook I 1 by the end of the second day she says we were well away from even that remote part of civilization from which we had started aai and it a terrible fact act was dawning on us the cook did not like us I 1 now the center of a camping trip Is the coole cook lie he has tile the hardest job that I 1 know of he cooks with inadequate equipment on a tiny stove in tho the open where the air blows the smoke into his face and cinders into his food worse than that lie hc must cook not only for the party but for a hungry crowd of guides and packers that sits in a circle and watches him and urges him and gets under his feet he Is the first up in the morning and the last in bed he has to dry his dishes on anything that comes handy and then pack nil all his grub on an unreliable horse and start oil for the next nest eating ground so knowing all tills this and also that we were about a thousand miles from the nearest employment office and several days hard riding from a settlement tl we went to bill with tribute we praised his specialties we gave him a college lad turned guide for the summer to assist him we gathered up our own dishes but gloom hung over him like a cloud A few days later the climax came ono one afternoon we found a rangers cabin and rode into its inclosure tor for luncheon breakfast had bad been early and we were very hungry we had bad gone long miles through the thick and silent forest and now we wanted food we sat in a circle on the ground and talked about food at last the chuck wagon drove I 1 in n W we e stood up and gave a hungry cheer and then bill BID was gone gonel I 1 some miles back he had halted the wagon got out taken his bed on his back and started toward civilization on foot we stared blankly at the teamster well we said what did he say all he said to me was so long 11 1 11 said tile the teamster and that was all there was to it there we were in the wilderness far far from a cook in savage silence we lunched out of tins when we spoke it was to impose horrible punishments on the defaulting cook in silence we finished our luncheon in silence mount mounted eol our horses in black and hopeless silence we rode on north moving every moment farther and farther from cooks and hotels and tables fables chote at last in a clearing we saw a man sitting quite idly beside the trail we ave rode up tip to him and said do you know of any alce where we can find and a cook and this man mail who had dropped from heaven heave n replied 1 I am a cook so we put him on our extra saddle horse and took him with us ile he cooked tor for us with might and main dawn nud and night until the trip was over |