Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-06-17
ON THE RAU. CAR,


'IN ! H T. RAIL. VAN.
Rules for Ladies' Travelling Alone
1. Be sure you know where you
want to go before YOU get on the
train.
II. When you purchase your ticket
you will have to pay for it no use to
tell the ticket agent to "chargc it and
send the bill to your husband" And
if he says the price of the ticket is
81 ?6, don't tell him you can get one
just like it of the conductor or at the
other store, for 81 80; he won't be-
lieve you, and he may laugh at you.
Ill. Never travel without money.
1t requires broad yic~&, liberal cdu-
cation, keen liscu.:..t3ent, and pro-
found judgment to travel without
money. No one can do this success
fully but tramps and editors.
~. Beware of the commercial tray
eler.
V. Don't give stranger your
ticket and ask him to go out and
check yeur trunk. He will usually
be only too glad to do it, and your
trunk will be SO eiiectually checked
that it will never catch up with you
again. And then, when the contluc-
tor asks for your ticket, and you re,
late to him the pleasing little allegory
about the stranger and the baggage,
he will look incrcdulous and smile
down upon you from his hali-closcd
eye, and say that it is {. beautiful
romance, but he has heard it before
And then you will put up yoDr jew
clry or discmbark ut the next station.
VI. Ii you are goin. three hun
drcd miles don't try To Get oil tie
train every fifteen minutes under the
impression taat you are there. If
you gel there III twenty hours you
will J., doing cxcylientIv.
VII. Cal! the brakeman ''conduc-
tor, he has grown proud since he
got his new uniform, and it will fiat
ter him.
VIII. Put your shawl strap, bundle
and two parcels in the hat rack, hang
Your bird cage 10 the corner of it. so
that when it falls Off it will drop into
the lap of the old gentleman sitting
behind you, stand your four house
plants on the window sill, set your
lunch basket Oh the seat beside YOU;
fold your sllawls Oh top of it, carry
your pocket book in one hand and
hold your silver mug in the other,
put Your two valises under the seat
and hold your bandbox and the rest
OF your things in your lap. Then
You will have all your baggage handy,
and won't be worried or hustered
about it when you have only twenty
nine seconds in which to change cars
IN. Address the conductor every
ten minutes. 1t pleases him to have
you notice hun. If you can't think
OF any new question 10 ask him, ask
him the same old one every time.
Always call him ''Slv,' or "Mistcr. "
y. Pick up all the information you
can while travelling. Open the window
and look forward to see how fast the
engine is going. Then when you get
home You can tell the childlcn about
the big cinder you picked up with
your eye, and how nice and warm il
was, and what it tasted like.
ri. Don't hang your parasol on
the cord that passes down the middle
of the car. 1t ISM 4 clothes line. II
looks like one, but it isn't.
MI. Keep an eye on the man whe
calls the day after Monday "Chews-
day" He can't be trusted cars
length.
NH. DO not attempt to change d
$40 bill for anyone, if you have only
50 % with you; it can't be done.
NV. If you want nap always lie
with your head projecting over the
end of the seat, into the aisle. Then
everybody who goes up or down the
aisle will mash your hat, straightel
out your friZzes, and knock Off you
back hair This will keep YOU from
sleeping SO soundly that You will ht
carried by your station.