Benefits of Camping, From “The Camper’s Handbook”, by Thomas Hiram Holding. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent,1908 pg. 13

• It teaches him no small measure of self -reliance.

• It gives him a new incentive to independence.

• It opens to him the possibility of personal resource.

• It teaches him patience when circumstances are adverse.

• It opens to him a new pleasure.

• It gives him greater freedom.

• It affords rest of mind.

• It is recreative. Repeated in another form, it is recreating.

• It keeps old men young.

• It gives younger people experience that they would not have.

• It makes men more tolerant of the domestic life.

• It gives man the power to manage and develop his personal force to overcome obstacles.

• It teaches him patience and tolerance with other people.

• It takes him away from the toils of business.

• It opens to a man new society.

• It affords him an opportunity of cutting the society he does not want.

• It revives his taste and love of the country.

• It enables him to wear out old clothes, for none other are comfortable in camp, and none other become the camp.

• It enables a man to get away from his family; or his family to get away from him for a spell.

• It allows a man to introduce his family to a new, and rough, and innocent pleasure.

• It produces in him a new individualism – for the better.

• It has a tendency to the extension of his geographical knowledge.

• It gives him a pleasure that has no vitiating influence.

• It helps to harden his physical nature.

• It adds to his physical activity, and therefore tends to the lengthening of his life.

• It is an educational force, which would take a chapter to describe.