Show Timely Warning To CampersOut Unless a camping party has among its members some one who is unquestionably skilled and experienced in the handling of a sail boat the latter should never be used Dozens of lives are sacrificed every year to the vanity and stupidity of people who think they can sail a boat I is avery a-very curious fact that nine men and boys out of every ten have the most sublime confidence in their abilities in this direction direc-tion and the store clerk on a vacation who cannot even handle an oar well will seize the tiller of a sail boat and undertake under-take to run her with an assurance that would be laughable if life wore not put in peril by it Sailing a boat looks easy but the truth of the matter is that very few men are thoroughly competent to handle a small sailboat It requires above all else experience ex-perience combined with good judgment coolness and ability to form a correct conclusion and act upon it instantly Not many men possess all these qualities and therefore not many men can be trusted to sail a boat Of course it is quite true that many inexperienced persons per-sons go out in sailboats and return in safety Almost any person can makeshift make-shift to get along in ordinary weather without trouble It is the unexpected which causes the danger and capsizes the boat and the unexpected is sure to happen hap-pen sooner or later A sudden squall a niisstay the jibing of a boom the parting of a sheet or hal hard and a man at the tiller who is not equal to the emergency and over goes the boat before the fairweather sailor who thought he knew it all can tell what is the matter and the papers chronicle another boat accident while several lives perhaps are sacrificed to the vanity of the amateur Lake shore camping parties par-ties will do well therefore to eschew sail boats fascinating though they may seem unless they are to be managed not by one who thinks he knows but by one who 1 does know and is qualified by long experience I ex-perience to run a boat I |