New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-13

nal book Of travels, which began " fear have not
much to say about Canada not having seen maeh
what got by going to Canada was o cold" !
have MT seen much of California, and have the
cold and SO begin the volume OF our travels
Eight busy and blithesome persons have share In
| that possessYe pronOun, and six OF them entered
into pleasant but limited partnership Old the fourth
of this current August. On that morning now made
historic they ate their breakfast together as seq
ments Of several family circles but entering the
North Western Depot of Chicago--a gloomy cavern OF
vast SIZE and only partially explored by the boldest
pioneer of q house-cleaner--they Immediately be-
came that gracious composite known as The Colfax
Party and hencefOrth spell it with a Ne We
therefore holding ourselves bound by an unspoken
but solemn oath not to tell the same joke more than
three times; not to speak opprobFiOusly OF each
other cuffs and collars, after many days and nights
OF travel not TO buy peanuts of itinerant vendors
not to crib each others good things and print them
except for the benefit of the Aged and Infirm and
not to speak when we had lost our tempers till we
had counted fortytwo, gathered together our dress
ing bags and bundles and were agreeably surprised
to find that the mpedimsnta amounted only to 81
articles Of hand-baggage for six simple and easily
contented tourists This reduction to light marching
order was the happy result of the terated and re-
eiterated command Of our smiling but determined
leader, who had made himself hoarse with proclaim
ing " The least possible baggage, remember" Wis
dom is justified of her children. We find that q
couple of trunks and halfa-dozen parcels, more or
less do quite well as q supertuty OF luggage Tor
q couple of months here, And, IN face OF the TACT
that one has to pay extra for every ounce over the
prescribed weight. which is something like two
pounds and quarter for each passenger, believe,
perhaps the eager tourist will do well to bring only
so much of his worldly gear as can DO cabined and
confined in one portmanteau Besides, If one takesa
paekng-case of fine clothes one may be supposed 10
put OH exhibition all one has but If only humble
bag turns out its frugal store then the Imagination
of the observer flies to the deep closets at home and
sees every peg bristling with purple and every
drawer plethorio with fine linen. Was it Aristotle
or Calico or Emerson who would MT have his gloves
mended because he said, hole might be the result
of accident, but darn was premedItated poverty
Posterty may forget me- but these fine social truths
VIII abide forever
- HOW TO DRESS.
Let me once more celebrate ourselves, and that by
way of example for the way we took is still unia-
miiar and we arc Of those who in the fecitous Ian
guage of the poet have been leaving footprints on
the sands Of Time mention il to say that the foot
prints were particularly wide and ugly because they
were made in the oldest boots we happened to pos
sess Old boots q necessity OF the Journey tor'
alas there are many days and nights when loot
bath il as the rocs egg and when the sands oil limo
are alkaline and scarifying and sift between but
tons and defy laces and makeIof your stockings two
stiff rasping envelopes TO which the shirt OF Nessus
cliuging lawn. Then, woe the day IL ones boots III
close. An unsupported corn declares itself boldly,
and demands room. bunion groans into existence
on the soundest Joint. Miserable white blisers null
tply. Big shoes and cOntented mind may cross the
alkai plains as they Arabia Felix, but let the
perturbed spint, In tidy booting deliberate al
Omaha, and turn back at Cheyenne. Again, we
bought no new travelling dresses. Charles Reade
would have printed this statement in line by ITSELF
In Romans and with three exclamation points. Be
cause he alone Of men, he who painted Mrs Bazal-
gette would have felt its full significance. 10 Is not
a virtue in a man 10 his old clothes. He likes
it, They sit easily on him, and he fancies they
are becoming simply because he has 10 long
admired himself in them, His dress is usually an
accident and not principle, and he cannot be sure
that his next suit will not be blunder. But
woman's toilet is the result Of conviction, and the
constituent parts are symmetrically balanced the
movements of an Elgin watch. III worn feather
droop haitian inch too far the line of beauty is at once
n dowdy line II Jacket be out OF fashion 1t is Mt
once conspicuous and yrannzes over the rest OF the
dress Therefore, 10 wear n costume which has lost
it's freshness is TO woman, to cruelty the iiesh not
because woman is one whit vainer than man, but
hecanse she TINS sacrifces an idea while he shrks
responsibility. SO think 10 was imputed unto us
for righteousness that in the sacred name OF Economy
we wore our two-yearsold alpacas.whose upperskrts
were too long and whose sleeves were too large, and
whose accompanying hats were not becoming Be
fore we left the railroad those faithful apacas were
IN shreds and the ugly shape of those hats was lost
in shapelesshess Dust ruins and nails FRAY and sun
II TIM Lnnl let
neophyte content herself in a chrysas of old clothes
or the Journey. that she may come out III butterfly
freshness at San Francisco.
.. PALACE CARS. ...t ..-...
Providence and Mr. Pullman smiled upon us, and
we had Palace Car all TO ourselves. am not very
familiar with Palaces having been been born and bred
in Hull State Of Massachusetts, where one-soriedre
publican simplicity prevails. But an etete arstocracy
must enjoy them, / should say, If this capacious
rolling splendOT chrstened "Wahsatch, represented
them. little startling as to upholstery certainly
and little superiluous as TO silyer-plate' But
remember in the East melancholy barracks OF ears
are-1oored narrow-seated, with hdeous painted
ceilings and impracticable windows. and useless
yentilators and alright stoves. Cars with eight
wheels, that racked, and sw aged, and joted. and
bumped of the track with half chance, and buried
one IN dust and deafened one with noise. Cars that
made railroad travel one long misery. And while
recall them this bizarre upholstery fades into soiteSt
harmony and the silver plate ceases TO obtrude For
at last the needs Of the unfortunate traveller have
been considered and the Pullman cars are offered as
satisfaction. On their twelve wheels they rou Doth
smoothly and safely. Their broad seats are easy
Their double windows exclude heat, and cold, ana
dust. Their stout ventilators pump IN CONSTANT
stream Of sweet strong air At night the sofas turn
into bedsteads a Iarniattress drops down from some
impossible creyice, the cleanest of sheets and blan