Under Canvas.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13608, 30 May 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

Under Canvas.

A special " honeymoon tent.", thai when rolled up and packed weighs just. 51b, was recently exhibited at --.the .annual " Camp Fire" uf the Cycle Campers' Association at the Challoner Street Lecture Hall, Kennington. Within a shori. while two prominent members of the Association will start away from London to spend their wedding tour beneath the canvas roof of the honeymoon tent. Their kii, all told will weigh about 301b. . The maker and designer of the tent is a young city man in a good position. Jt was at a big cycle camp that he met his future wife, a dark-eyed, bright-complexioned beauty. Their mutual kesnntiss for camp life was the first- bond belween them. Afterwards love came to complete this campers' idyll, and -as they met first under canvas they have decided to start theU - wedded life under a cycle campers' tent. "Yes," said the yo'ung man, "I have made this , tent- myself especially for the honeymoon. Is larger than the ordinary gipsy tent, and there is room inside for a lady to .Hand up straight and dress in front of a liitie mirror. In May next we shall be married. The tent and k.. -will be already packed behind our bicycles, and directly ofter the ceremony we shall start off awheel. No railway journey with reserved compartment and a smiling guard for uf. We have chosen the New Forest, for our honeymoon land. i know many delightful glades where we can pitch our * honeymoon hotel' for the night. During the day we shall explore the forest together, sometimes returning at dusk to the same spot as before, and sometimes finding a new camping ground. We shall, of course, do all our own cooking. My fiancee is just- as delighted iVitli the idea as I am, and we are very enthusiastic over this new plan for a wedding trip. W T e are not looking forward to wet- weather. It cannot possibly rain on our honeymoon."