The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-12-20
Women az Travellers.

1t 10 very small matter for Iohn
Smith TO take a. Journey Of six or y q ght
hundred miles! He raslles home from
Ills counting-roomsp Office ,or Workshop,
fifteen minutes before the train leaves,
bids Mrs. s. put q clean shirt or two in
his valise, takes cold luncheon, kisses
the children all round, and perhaps
their mother strides To the station, goes
in at. one, end just AS the engine. is puf.
fing out at the other, waits leisureIy till
theiast end Of the car is Opposite him,
throws hisxalise on the platform, graspa
the railing. vaults lightly upon ths steps,
and IN half,a minute ,is talking sapcon-
cernedy with Mr.. Jones, who has.probi
ably gone through the Same perform.
ance during the last half hodr.c' 'sEl
no But, if Mrs, John Smith wishes to pay
"a ten days visit to her mother, sixty
miles away, fortnight is not too much
time to devote TO PREPARATIONS. Her
wardrobe is to be thoroughly overhaul.
ed; dresses selected, bought, made; .
dressmaker consequently to be hunted
up and engaged; old shirts adjusted to
new basques; collars mended, whifen.
ed, and clear-starched; Mr.. Smiths
shirts, stockings and. handkerchief pla-
ced where he can lay his hands on them
blindfolded, for no Smith ever yet con.
ceived the idea filling up one thing
to find another under it the various
strata of rocks being tilted, the genus
Smith seems to have imbibed the 'opin-
ion that bureau drawers should be ar
ranged on the same plan. Then, there
are the children to be seen to, the mar
keting to be arranged, iBridgetto be ad-
monished, and everything in general
wound up to go ten days withoutstop-
ping or arrangement. Consequently,
when the appointed morning comes,
and with it the appointed coach, Mrs,
smith is not quite ready.i With her
cheeks flushed, and no collar, she gives
hurried directions, ties up brown paper
packages with nervous, trembling fin.
gers, which. packages no sooner receive
the final jerk than they are discovered
to be bursting out at both, ends; seat
ters the yo,hig folks Litherr and thither,
running down al who are not agile
enough to get out OF frhc'way, antf rs on.
ly restrained fiom. scolding outright by
q dim vision OF plunges down embank-
ments, butting against opposing len-
gines, splihtered bridges, flying axles,
and life long separation from loved ones,
to which a arailroad journey now a-days
renders one so feartully liable easIo
AT length the last Knot is tiely tho
last kiss is given, and Mrs. Smith ahx-
iously looking at Yer watch, stumbles
over the hem of her dress into o the
coach. beseeehing the driveritonhurry.
He politely says I" Yes,p but ,persistent-
ly drives !. No" After what shc, con-
s;dms unnecessary delay, she arrives - y
the station, hurries into etickct office,
tries to open her port mgnnaie, Tut az
that is governed By the MedoIi Persio'
laws of inertia and attraction, il. refuses
to be hurried. Hurriedlyre che asks the
ticketimaster, ," Is the train rot goneS,,
Hislopd, clear, deliberate aNo, ,ma'atn,,''
startle, her, and before she RECEIVERS
herself, he has gone, to the opposite
window She waits Der turn again,
g How iongs0eforeit goes ?"o "Twen-
ty---minutes--ns'am.n With asigk Of
mingled relief and we3p;ssss,, she sinks
upona sofa. Time would, fail, me, To-
follow Mrs: s. on her devious way, to
note her anxious watching over "great
box, little boz, bandSbox and dbundles;T
her uncertainty IS tolwhich sheis
to take, and her ,incss,a;t inquiries Of
every man who approaches ); the intense
that looks oiit of her eyes, quiv-'
ers on her lips, trenlbles in her hahds
and futters in every threadnof her gaft
ments, All these things, may only pro-
yosc G.,sn q smile, but Mrs J.sois-tragieal.
ly in earnest, .,-r
III have had opportunities to observe
my sexIin the transition state, and I am
forced 70 say that doonot think the
Female trayelcr is always a pleas ant OBJ
ject ofcontemplation. She is peyer qNite
free from anxiety or bundles, and is
pretty highly charged with
both. She asks the conductor thensSme
question twice, as if she believed hs
might undergo a moral reformation be-,
tween the first and second asking, and
tell the truth Mt last,o though he told'A
lie at first, Swestly patient at homes
sublimely patient in great painor peril,
she is ludicrously impatient on her tray;
els. She cannot wait the iIiArch Of
events, but outstrips the present, antic-
ipates the future, and asks the conduc-
tor " if we change ears at B.'' Trust.
full to fault in the domestic circle, she
becomes q very, skeptic in the cars, and
never believes him unless no says, Yes,
When he Announces at B." Passen-
eors change cars Sfor the East" she
steps out with 'alacrity 9upon the plas--
from and Immediately asks him, do,
we change cars here q" Acute of yis-
ioh, and rapid IN perception at home,
abrDaft aeelamoaf seems to fall upon
her. The 7timestable invariably hangS
npon Ifhe, STATEN walls buff AZ if 2aSss
pable of calculation, she invariably, asks,
the ticket master at what hour thu. train,
Is dad ;sandiif Il is'ilve minutes late, she.
goes to- hani againy and asks him how
longf before 10 viii arr;r ea5 On c6nrssys
observing the, inconsequence of these,
and similar vagarics, am especially. /.
earefatto avoid them Gail Hamilton.
e5h - y z nsi-sI anhay2I ah3 ,cks I'D
EE The following cute trick which
n Union soldier played upon the Cop
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