Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-08-16
A Few Hints About Travelling

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. Put the check
in some safe place but first look at the num-
Der, 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 conductor
comes, as # it was perfect surprise 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 bundles beside or op-
posite you ; but remember that you have on
~ paid for one scat and be ready at once TO
make room for another passenger if necessary,
without acting as though you were comforting
favor.
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.
If YOU must read in the cars, never in any
circumstances take a book that has not fair,
clear type; and stop reading at the earliest
approach of twilight IT, 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. \ newspaper
( Is the worst reading goa can have, as the
( print is usually iuJi7tiuCt and 1t is nupus,l-
! lie to hold It -tn.
You may not care to read in the cars when
| in motion, but it is convenient to have a book
! with Won in case the train should be delaved
If your friends accompany YOU to the Sta
! ton, be careful that your last words are not
too personal or too loud Young people are
apt to overlook this. and thus sometimes
make themselves ridiculous before the other
/ passengers by Joking and laughing i'll a way
/ which might be perft city proper at home, but
! which before II company Of strangers is not in
! good tast..
If you meet acquniutances, do not call ont
| their names so distinctly rs to introduce them
! to the other passengers, rs it is never pleas
ant for people to have tho attention of ,tran-
gers called TO them in that way If YOU are
! alone. do not be too ready to make acquan-
/ taures Reply politely to any civil remark or
| offer Of assistance. bat do not allow yourself
/ to he drawn into conversation. unless it is
with some one of whose trustworthiness You
are reasonably sure. and even then do not for
get that you are talking to perfect stranger.
! If You cannot have everything Just rs YOU
prefer remember that you are in Il public
CONVEYANCE, and that the other passengers
have Us much right to their way as you have
to yours. If YOU find that your open window
auuoys your neighbor do not refuse to shut
it and if the case is reversed, do not COM
plain unless you are really afraid of taking
| cold and cannot conveniently change your
seat Above all things do not get into dis
| pute about it. like the two women, one of
! whom declared that she should die if the win
dow was open. and the other responded that
she should stiae if it was shut until one of
the passengers requested the conductor to
open it while and kill one, and then shut it
and kill the other, that the rest might have
peace.
There are few situations where the disposi-
ton is more thoroughly shown than it is in
travelling. A long Journey is considered by
some people to be perfect test Of the temper
There arc many ways in which an unselfsh
person will find an opportunity to be oblig-
ing. II is surprising to see how people who
consider themselves kind and polite members
! of society can sometimes forget all their good
manners in the cars. showing perfect dis
regard of the comfort-and even the rights
of others which would banish them from de-
cent society if shown elsewhere.
To return TO particular directions Do not
entertain those who are travelling with you 10y
! constant complaints of the dust or the heat or
the cold. The Others are probably as much
| aupcycd by these things as YOU are and fault
finding will only make them the more un-
pleasant to ALL Bo careful what you say
about those near you, rs a EMBELLISHMENTS
! TO n friend in too loud n tone may cause real
heartache MANY weary mother has been
panied by hearing complaints of a fretful
child. whose CRYING most probably distresses
her more than any one else. Instead of say
! inc ..Wby will peoule travel with babies Z"
remember that it is sometimes unavoidable.
and do not disfgnre your face by frown at
the disturbance, but try to do what you can
to make the Journey pleasant for those around
YOU. at least bv a serene and cheerful face
| 4 person who really wishes to be helpful to
Others will find plenty Of opportunities to
.'lend handn without becoming conspicuous
in any way.
Do not ask too many questions of other
passengers. Keep Your eyes and ears open,
and you will know as much as the rest do. If
Won wish to inquire about ANYTHING let it be
of the conductor. whose business il is to an
swer YOU. and do not detain him uuuecessar-
ly. Remember what he tells you, that you