The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-16
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Rules For Ladies' travelling Alone.
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Rules For Ladies' Travelling Alone.
BY the HawE.sye Philosopher.
First. Be sure you know where you
want to go before you get on the train.
Second. When you purchase your tick
ct you will have to pay for it; no use to
tell the ticket agent TO "charge 1t and send
the bill 10 your husband" And II he says
The price Of the ticket is g So, don't tell
him you can get one just like 1t OF the
conductor or At the other store, for 50 80;
he wont believe you, and he may laugh at
you.
Third. Never travel with money. 1t
requires broad views, liberal education,
Seen discernment, and profound judge.
Inent to travel with money. No one can
=" this successfully bat tramps and edi-
tors.
Fourth. Beware OF the commercial trav.
eler.
Fihh-Don't give stranger your ticket
ind ask him 70 go out and check your
srunk. He will usually be only too glad
o do It, and your trunk will be so ef.
eCtually checked that it will never catch
up with you again. And then, when the
conductor axis for your ticket, and you
elate to him the pleasing little allegory
bout the stranger and the baggage, he
sill look incredulous and smile down
upon you from his half.closed. eye, and say
ny that It is a beautiful romance, but he
has heard OF it before. And then you
vii put up your jewelry and disembark
It the next station.
Sixth-lf you are going three hundred
niles do not try to get of the train every
d teen minutes under the impression that
youa aye there. II you get there in twelve
nours you will be doing exCellently.
Seventh-Call the brakeman conduct
orr" he has grown proud since he got his
new uniform, and 1t will llatter him.
Eighth-Put your shawl strap, bundle
md two paper parcels in the hat rack,
,ang your bird cage to the corner OF it, SO |
hat when It falls of il will drop into the |
zap Of the old gentleman sitting behind
yOu, stand your four house plants on the
window sill. set your lunch basket on the
eat beside you, fold y0ur shawls on top
I it, carry your pocket book In one hand
aud hold your silver mug IN the other, put
our two valises under the seat and hold
our bandbox aud therest OF your things
u your lap. Then you will have all your
,aggsge handy, and won't be worried or
IusIefed about it when you have only
Tenty-nine seconds in which to change
:Ars.
Ninth-Address the conductor every
en- minutes. 1t pleases him to have you
lotiCe him. II you can't think Of any
question 10 ask him, ask him the same old
me every time, Always call him Say"
Or Mister"
Teutn-Pick up all the information you
san while travelling. Open the window
md look forward to see how fast the
,ugine is going. Then when you get home
,Ou can tell the childreA about the big
Under you picked up with your eye, and
row nice and warm it was, and what 1t
asied like.
EIeyenth-Don't hang you parasol on
The cord that passes down the middle OF
The car. 1t isn't clothes line. 1t looks
Ike one but it isn't.
TweIfth-Keep an eye on the man who
:alls the day after Monday "Chewsday."
de can't be trusted cars length.
Thirteenth-Do not attempt to changes
s20 bill for any one, il you have only 50 %
\ ith you; it can't be done.
Fourteenth-lf you want nap always
lie with your head projecting over the end
If the seat, into the aisle. Then every.
body who goes up or down the aisle will
nash your hat, straighten out your frizzes,
md knock of your back hair. This will
ieep you from sleeping so soundly that
you will be carried by your station.