Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-31
= A Few Hints About Travelling.

Try to find out, before you start, what
train and car you ought to take, and
have your trunk properly checked.
Fut the check in some safe place, bnt
first look at the number, so that YOU
may identify the check if lost by you
and found by others. Have your ticket
where you can easily get it, and need
not be obliged to appear, when the con-
ductor comes, as if it was perfect sur
prise to you that he should ask for
it.
Of course, you have a right to the
best seat which is vacant, and, if there
is plenty of room, you can put your bun
dies beside or opposite you; but rem en-
Der that you have only paid for one seat
and be ready at once to make room for
another passenger, if necessary, without
acting as though you were comforting
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If you have several packages. and
wish to put any of them in the rack
over your head, you will be less likely
to forget them, If you put all together,
than you will if you keep part in your
hand. -. .rr.u .aIa so,I 0a".
i. If you must read in the cars, never in
any circumstances take book hat has
not fair, clear type; and stop reading at
the earliest approach of twilight. If, as
YOU read, you hold your ticket, or some
other plain piece of paper, under the line
you are reading, sliding it down as you
proceed, you will find that you can read
almost as rapidly, and with much less
injury to your eyes. A newspaper is
the worst reading you can have, as the
print is usually indistinct, and it is i'm
possible to hold it STILL roA -a. 'u EaH
You may not care to read in the cars
when in motion, but it is convenient to
have a book with you, in case the train
should be delayed. Is. "-.'
Ifyour friends accompany you to the
station, be careful that your last words
are not too personal or too loud. Young
people are apt to overlook this, and
thus som etimes make themselves ridic-
ulous before the other passengers by
Joking and laughing in a way which
might be perfectly proper at home, but
which before a company of strangers is
not in good taste.
ify you meet acquaintance, do not call
out their names SO distinctly as to intro
duce them to the other passengers. as it
is never pleasant for people to have the
attention of strangers called to them in
that way. Ii you are alone, do not be
too ready to make acquaintance. Re-
tply politely TO any civil remark or offer
of assistance, but do not allow yourself
to be drawn into conversation, unless 1t
is with some one of whose trustWOrthi-
ness your are reasonably sure, and even
then do not forget that you are talking
to a perfect stranger.
1fyOu cannot have everything just as
YOU prefer, remember that you are in 3,
public conveyance, and that the other
passengers have as much right to their
way as you have to yours. If you fipd
that your open window annoys your
neighbor, do not refuse to shut it; and
if the case is reversed, do not complain,
unless you are really afraid of taking
cold, and cannot conveniently change
your seat. Above all things. do not get
into q dispute about it, like two women,
one of whom declared that she should
die if the window was open, and the
other responded that she should stif1e if
it was shut, until one of the passengers
requested the conductor to open it a
while and kill one, and then shut il and
Kill the other, that the rest might have
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