The Arkansas banner., 1847-06-09
INCIDENTS IN TRAVELS.


 isiic letter from Srhoolmistress on toui of the continent a Europe during the yaca- ton, to pupiIinLondon. Iiis from the pen of the late Tom Hood, and we are pretty cer- tain will be entirely new to the majority oI our readers
 I "My dear Miss Pafitt,
 ! Under the protection of experimenting Providence we have arrived safely at this place, which you know is seaport in the Dutch dominions .chief and city Amsterdam For your amusement and improvement did hope to compose journal of our con- tnual progress, with such references to 7, Guthrie and the School Atlas as might enable you to ttace our course on the Map of Eu- ] rope. But unexpected vicissitudes of mind and body have totally inexperienced me for the pleasing task. Some social evening hereafter may entertain our little juvenile circle with my locomotive miseries and dis agreeables; but at present my. nerves and feelings are too discomposed for the correct flow of an epistolary correspondence. h. deed, from the Tower-s'airs to Rotterdam 1 have been in one universal tremor and per- petual blush: Such shocking scenes and positions, that make one ask twenty times day, Is this dec0rum.--tan this be mannerss --can this be molalsS But must not am ticipate. Suffice 1t, that as regards foreign travelling it is my painful conviction, founded f on personal experience, that a woman of deIicacy and refinement canno, go out of 1 England without going put of herself!
 The very first step from an open boat up windy shipside Is an alarm to modesty, exposed as one is to .he officious but odious attentions of the Tritons of the Thames l Nor Is the steamboat itself sphere for the preservation of self-respec, If there is any feature upon which British female justly brides herself, 1t is a correct and lady-like carriage. In that particular quite coincide with Mrs. Chapone, Mrs. Hannah More, and I other writers on the subject. Blu, how-lei me ask how Is dgnifed department to be maintained when one has to skip and straddle over cables, ;opes, and other nauti- l cal hors d'eaores,--ts scramble upandtiown impracticable stairs, and :o chamber into inaccessible beds. Rot 10 name the sudden losing of ones centr, of gravity, and falling in all sorts of unstnded attitudes on slop- py and slippery dect. An acciden, that | may say reduces the elegant and awk ward 1 female to the same level You will be con- cerned therefore 10 learn that poor Miss 1 Ruth had fall, and n an unbecomig posture particular distresslng-namely, by losing her 1 footing on the cabinfight, and coming down with destructive lasnch into the stewards pantry.
 E,r rt n kas t.n ed to me within my remembrance, to make a I false step, or to miss stair: there is cer- tain guarded carriage that preserves one from such sprawlng denoumens--but of course what the bari calls sslhe poetry of noiion,' is not to De observed amidst the extempore rollings of an ungovenable ship. Indeed, within the last twenty-four hours. l have had to perform fea,s of agility more ft fol a monkey than one of my own sex and 1 species. Par example: getting down from a bed as high as the coppybook-cupboard, and what really is awful with the sensation of grcping about with your feet and legs for a f floor that seems to have no existence. may add, the cabin-door Jeff ajar, and ex- posing you to the gaze of an obtrusive cabin-boy, as he is called, but quite big enough for man. Oh, je ne jamais'
 As to the Mer Malade, delicacy forbids the details; but a. Miss Ruth says, It is the height of human degradation; and to add to the climax of our letting down, we had to give way 10 the most hurnliating impulses 1 in the presence of several of the rising gem ] eraiion---dreadfully rude little girls who had evidently enjoyed bad bringing up.
 1 T.@ sall tha trnlk x-nnr no@V Gnvnru was shoekingiy indisposed. Not that had induged my appetite at dinner, being too much disgusied with public meal in pro- miscuous society, and as nigh, be expected, elbows on the table, eating with knives and even picking teeth with forks. And then no grace, which assuredly ought 10 be said both before and after, whether we are 10 retain l the blessing or not But dinner at sea and school dinner, where we have even our regular beef and better days, are too very 1 different things. Then to allude to indls- 1 criminaie conversation, a great part oi which ] is in foreign language, and accordingly places one in the cruel position of hearing, without understanding, word of the mosI libertine and aiheisiical sentiments. Indeed ] l fear have too ofiea been smiling com. placently, moi 10 say engagingly, when | ought rather to have been flashing with vir- | tuous indignation, or even administering the l uimos. severity of moral reproof did en. ] deayor, in one instance, to rebuke indelicacy bu. unfortunately from standing near the fnn' nel, was smutiy all the while was talking [ and as school experience confirms, is is i'm possible to command respect with black or one's nose.
 !. Another of our Cardinal Virtues, persona l. cleanliness, is totally impraesicable on ship ! board: but without parsicularixing, vii only name a general sense of grabbiness; an' ; as to dress. rumpled snd tumbled toa ' ensemble, strongly indicative of the low an