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hat the Outdoor World Can Do for Girls. How to Find the Trail andHow to Keep It=There is a something in you, as in every one, every man, woman, girl, andboy, that requires the tonic life of the wild. You may not know it, many donot, but there is a part of your nature that only thewild can reach, satisfy, anddevelop. The much-housed, overheated, overdressed, and over-entertainedlife of most girls is artificial, and if one does not turn away from and leave itfor a while, one also becomes greatly artificial and must go through life notknowing the joy, the strength, the poise that real outdoor life can give.What is it about a true woodsman that instantly compels our respect, thatsets him apart from the men who might be of his class in village or townand puts him in a class by himself, though he may be exteriorly rough andhave little or no book education? The real Adirondack or the North Woodsguide, alert, clean-limbed, clear-eyed, hard-muscled, bearing his pack-basketor duffel-bag on his back, doing all the hard work of the camp, never loseshis poise or the simple dignity which he shares with all the things of the wild.3 LINA BEARD & ADELIA B. (ADELIA BELLE) BEARDIt is bred in him, is a part of himself and the life he leads. He is as consciousof his superior knowledge of the woods as an astronomer is of his knowl-edge of the stars, and patiently tolerates the ignorance and awkwardness ofthe "tenderfoot" from the city. Only a keen sense of humor can make thistoleration possible, for I have seen things done by a city-dweller at camp thatwould enrage a woodsman, unless the irresistibly funny side of it made himlaugh his inward laugh that seldom reaches the surface.To live for a while in the wild strengthens the muscles of your mind as wellas of your body. Flabby thoughts and flabby muscles depart together andare replaced by enthusiasm and vigor of purpose, by strength of limb andchest and back. To have seems not so desirable as to be. When you haveonce come into sympathy with this world of the wild-which holds our cul-tivated, artificial world in the hollow of its hand and gives it life-new joy,good, wholesome, heartfelt joy, will well up within you. New and absorbinginterests will claim your attention. You will breathe deeper, stand straighter.The small, petty things of life will lose their seeming importance and greatthings will look larger and infinitely more worth while. You will know thatthe woods, the fields, the streams and great waters bear wonderful messagesfor you, and, little by little, you will learn to read them.The majority of people who visit the up-to-date hotels of the Adirondacks,