Adventure Magazine Cover, March 20, 1925 — page 207: what you’re looking at

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Ask Adventure J.-American Anthropology North of the Panama Canal ARTHUR Woopwaro, care of Abventure, Customs, dress architecture, pottery and decorative arts, weapons and implements, fetishism, social divisions. K.—First Aid on the Trail CLaupE P. Forpycsz, M. D., Falls City, Neb, Medical and surgieal emergency care, wounds, injuries, commen ill- nesses, diet, pure water, clotning, imsect and snake-bite; industrial fifst aid and sanitation tor mines, logging camps, ranches and exploring parties as well as for camping trips of ail kinds. irst-aid outnts. Meeting ali health nazards of the outdoor lite, arctie, temperate and tropical zones. L.—Health-Buildiag Outdeors Craune P. Forpyce, M. D., Falls City, Neb. How to get well and how to keep well in the open air, where to go and how to travel. ‘Lrepical hygiene. General health- building, saie exercise, rigmt food and habits, with as much adaptation as possible to particular eases. M.—Railreading in the U. 8., Mexico and Canada R. T. Newman, Box 833, Anaconda, Mont. General- office, especially imamigratien, work; advertising werk, duties of station agent, oill clerk, ticket agent, passenger brakemaa and rate cierk. General information. N,—Herpetology Dr. G.. K. Nosiz, American Museum of Natural History 77th St.,and Central Park West, New ore N “<- Geas eral information concerning reptiles (snakes, lizards, tur- tles, creeodiles) and amphibians (frogs, toads, sala- magders); their eustoms,habits and distribution. O.—Entomology Dr. Frank E. Lutz, Ramsey, N. J, General informetion Mosquito Dope HH? nets beat drugs: Request:—‘Will appreciate very much your ad- vice en the preparation of mosquito dope. I am going en a prespecting and hunting trip very shortly on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and I learm that the mosquitos are plain —— in most places there. I am enclosing self-addressed and stamped en- velop fer reply, and thank you.”—E. 5. BATEMAN, Seattle, Wash. Reply, by Mr. Vietor Shaw:—You’ve asked me a poser! I’ve hunted and caraped in Maine and New Brunswick in June and July when the skeeters were so thick that they wowd work through a double mosquito bar—they worked in relays of three; two would push a third through the meshes. Also, lived near the Hackensack meadows where they have been known to sting a five-year-old child to death when lost in the tall grass. Have found them even in the arctic; but they get action more slowly up there—you can git ’em! Well, with all this above I’ve tried innumerable varieties of ‘“dope’’ and never found any of them entirely satisfactory. None ever really proved a success. A mixture of oil of pennyroyal and sweet oil is perhaps as good as any. Put a liberal amount ef pennyroyal in, using the sweet oil as a carrier, and you’ll have to renew often on face and hands. In the northeastern timber they use tar oil and oil of eitronella, which I found fair. A head net is an absolute preventive where it can be used, or a helmet of cotton cloth made to &t the entire head closely, leaving only the face exposed from the eyebrows to the lower lip; the skirt is long and tucks under the hunting-eoat collar, and you put your depe only on the expesed portion of the face. My father used this with very good suecess fishing in New Brunswick in May. 189 about insects and spiders; venomous insects, disease-earrye ing insects, insects attacking man, etc.; distribution. X.—-STANDING INFORMATION For Camp-Fire Stations write J. Cox, care Adventure, For general information oa U. S. and its possessions, write Supt. of Public Documents, Wash., D. roe for catalog of all Government publications. For U. §., its pesses- sions and most foreign countries, the Dept., of Com., Wasn., .C. ad ar Philippines, Porto Rico, and Sektirgs goed anto Dominyo an i, the Bureay Afiairs, War Vept., Wash, D. gee bah gee For Alaska, the Alaska Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Central bidy., Seattle, Wash. For Hawaii, Hawaii Promotion Committee, Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, T. H. Alse Dept. of the Interior, Wash., D. C. Bureau of Information, Dept. of Agri., Com, For Cuba and Labor, Havana, Care The Pan-American Union for general information en Latin-American matters or for specific data. Address L. S. Rowg, Dir. Gen., Wash., D. C. For R. C. M. P., Commissioner Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, Can. Only unmarried British subjects, age 18 to 40, above 5 ft. 8 in. and under 175 Ibs. For Canal Zone, the Panama Canal Cam., Wash., D. C. National Rifle Association of America, Brig. Gen. Fred H, Phillips, Jr., Sec'y, 1108 Frosewacd B ., Wash., D. C. United States Revolver Ascs’a. . A. MoRRALL, Sec’y- Treas., Hotel Virginia, Columbus, O. National Parks. how to get there and what to de when there. Address National Park Service, Wash., D. C. For whereabeute of Navy men, Bureau of Navigation. Last summer up here I find the mosquitoes net so bad but the tany black gnats will drive you to moonshine, You can always get rid of both witha smudge in your tent; ff you have a camp stove, leave all the covers off and if there is not enough smoke put in some moss. I do this every eveni when they are bad. Take along a few blocks o camphor gum—it floats on water with a tiny margin above surface—light this dry surface and it will burrs a long time, forming a small dam as it sinks that keeps the water out. The fumes will banish them, Put the gum carefully in a tin cup of water g0 as not to wet the upper surface. They are sure bad where you’te going; you have my sympathy, The full statement of the sections in this department as given in this is- sue, is printed only in alternate issues. Poland Ry Oss down, but never out: Request: —“‘Will you please send me any infor mation possible on the languages and history of Poland.”’—IzmMa MoorHEAD, Eastland, Tex. Reply, by Mt. Fleischer:—As far as the languages of Poland are concerned, about n'nety percent. of the people speak Polish, seven percent. German, and the remainder Russian. The Polish language is part of the great Slavic branch and is closely related to Russian. It is a very difficult language, having a great number of conso- nants to a small number of vowels. It is also pos- sesses of a very, I’d say extremely, difficult gram- mar, although it is not devoid of a certain beauty of ca teen if spoken correctly. t has greater power of expression than Emglish; CORnNIECLO© (C©