The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-11-13
Rules for Ladies Travelling Alone.

1. Be sure you know where you want
to go before you get on the train.
,. When y"u purchase your ticket.
you will have to pay for it; no use to tell
the ticket agent to charge it. and send
the bill to your husband.' And if he
says the price of the ticket is 81 90. don t
tell him you can get one just like it Of
the conductor. or at the other store. for
$3.50: he won't believe you. and he may
laugh at you.
3. Never travel without money. 1t
requires broad views, liberal education,
keen discernment, and profound iudg-
ment. to travel without money. No one
can do tins successfully but tramps and
editors.
1. Beware of the commercial traveller
). Don't give a stranger your ticket
and ask him to 60 out and check your
trunk. lie will usually be only too glad
| to do it. and your trunk will be SO effect
ually checked that it will never catch up
with you again. And then when the con-
ducter asks for your ticket, and you re-
late to him the pleasant little allegory
about the stranger and the baggage, he
will look incredulous, and smile down
upon you from half-closed eye, and say
it is beautiful romance, but he has
heard it before. And then you will put
up your jewelry, or disembark at the
next station.
6. If you are going three hundred
miles, don't try to get off the train every
fifteen minutes. under the impression
that you are there If you get there in
twelve hours you will be doing excel
lently.
:. Call the brakeman conductors"
he has grown proud since he got his uni
form, and it will tlatter him.
s. Put your shawl strap bundle, and
two paper paper parcels, in the hat rack,
so 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 on
the seat beside you. fold your shawls on
the top of it, carry your pocket book in
one hand, and hold your 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 clustered about it
when you have only twenty-nine seconds
in which to change cars.
8. Address the conductor every ten
minutes. 1t pleases him to have you
notice him. If you can't think of any
new questions to ask him, ask the same
old one every time. Always call him
"Say," or Mister
10. 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 children about the big Gin
der you picked up with your eye, and
how nice and warm it was, and what it
tasted like.
II. Don't hang your parasol on the
cord that passes down the middle of the
car. 1t isn't 4 clothes line 1t looks like
one, but it isn't.
70. Keep an eye on the passenger who
calls the day after Monday Chuesday."
He can't be trusted cars length.
10. Do not attempt to change 500
bill for any one if you only have 1925
with you: it can't be done.
IA. If you want a nap, always lie with
your head projecting over the end of the
seat into the aisle. Then everybody who
goes up and down the aisle will smash
your hat, straighten out your frizzes, and
knock off your back hair. This will
keep You from sleeping so soundly that
you will be carried by your station.