SLEEPING OUTDOORS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2781, 28 November 1931, Page 5

SLEEPING OUTDOORS

LIFE REALLY WORTH LIVING. The joys of sleeping out were emphasised by two “hard old doors” recently, who said that if the fine weather only continued they were going to have one of the best summers they had ever experienced. They said that food was not so easy to get these days, when there were so many on the same ticket as themselves. Some of the “ flappers” were pretty hard on old men when they went to the back door and asked for a job cutting wood, all the time hoping that they might get a snack of something instead. No person who slept in a room in weather like this really knew what genuine fresh air sleep was like. To wake up in the morning with the fresh air all around one and the birds singing in the very trees under which one had slept was to realise that life was really worth living. The dosshouse might be right enough in the cold weather, but just now they did not care if there was not a doss-house in the whole world.