How to Use the Inspirator
To encourage a fire you apply the brass nozzle to the struggling blaze, and blow steadily through the rubber tube. The result is an effect midway between a pair of bellows and a Bunsen burner.
Until you have tried it you will have difficulty in realizing how quickly wet wood will ignite when persuaded by the Inspirator. I have used it over five months of camping, and never have failed to blow up a brisk blaze in the foulest conditions of weather and fuel. No more heavy chopping for dry heart-wood, no more ashes in the face empurpled by stooping, no more frantic waving of the hat that scatters ashes. Furthermore, the Inspirator's use is not confined to wet days alone. If ever you particularly desire any individual kettle to boil in a hurry, and that utensil sullenly declines to do so, just direct the Inspirator beneath it, and in a jiffy it is on the bubble. When out of use you wrap the rubber tube around the brass nozzle and tuck it away in your waistcoat pocket.
Towels, Soap, etc.
There remains only the necessity of cleaning up. Get three yards or so of toweling and cut off pieces as you need them. Keep them washed and they will last a long time. Borax soap and a cake of Sapolio help; but you can clean up dishes without soap. Long tough grass bent double makes an excellent swab. For washing clothes I have found nothing to equal either Fels-Naphtha or Frank Siddal's Soap. You soap your garments at night, rinse them in the morning—and the job is done. No hot water, no boiling, little rubbing. And the garments are really clean.
SUMMARY
| Minimum for comfort | Maximum |
| 1 tin cup with riveted handle | Tin cup |
| 1 aluminum coffee pot | Aluminum coffee pot |
| 1 aluminum pail | 2 aluminum pails |
| 1 knife, fork, spoon | Knife, fork, 3 spoons |
| 1 aluminum plate | 2 plates |
| Fry pan | Milk pan |
| Food bags | 2 fry pans to nest |
| Dish towel | Reflector oven |
| Fels-Naphtha or Frank Siddal's soap. | Food bags |
| Fire irons | |
| Dish towel | |
| Borax soap | |
| Sapolio | |
| Fels-Naphtha or Frank Siddal's soap. |
FOOTNOTE:
[4] Abercrombie & Fitch handle the aluminum alloy.