The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-01
Rules for Ladies' Travelling Alone.

1. Be sure you know where You want
to go before you get on the train.
2. When you 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
1896, don't tell him you can get one
just like it Of the conductor or at the
other store for $500, he won't believe
you and he may laugh at you.
3. Never travel without money. It re-
quires broad views of liberal education,
keen discernment and profound judg-
ment to travel without money. No
one can do this successfully but tramps
and editors.
4. Beware of the commercial trav-
eler.
Don't give a stranger your ticket
and ask him to get out and check your
trunk. He will usually be only too
glad to do it. And what is more he
will do it, and your trunk will be so
efectually checked that it will never
catch up with you again. And then
when the conductor asks you for your
ticket and you relate to him the pleas
ing little allegory about the stranger
and the baggage lie will look incredu-
lOus and smile down upon you from
half-closed eye, and say that it is a
beautiful romance, but he has heard OF
1t 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 get off the train every fif-
teen minutes under the impression that
you are there. If you get there il
twelve hours you will be doing exceed
ingly well.
Z. Call the brakeman conductor,
he has grown proud since he got hi.
new uniform, and it will fiatter him.
s. Put your shawl-strap, bundle anC
two paper parcels in the hat rack
. hang your bird cage to the corner of it
so that when it falls off it will drop in
to the lap Of the old Settleman sitting
r behind you, stand your four house
plants on the window sill, set you
: lunch basket on the seat beside you
fold your shawls OH top Of it, carr,
{ your pocket-boOk in one hand ant
e hold your silver mug in the other, pu
: your two valiscs under the seat am
: hold your handbook and the rest O
f your things in your lap. Then yo
4 will have all your baggage handy
e and won't be worried or hustere
D about it when you have only twenty
e nine seconds in which to change car:
8. Address the conductor every tc
n minutes. 1t pleascs him to have yo
: notice him. If you can't think Of an
e new question to ask him, ask him tn
: same old one every time. Always ca
t him ''Say," or ''Nlister."
Y 10. Pick up all the information yO
n can while travelling. Open the vii
!. dow and look forward to see how fas
e the engine is going. Then when yo
n get home you can tell the childre
t about the big cinder you picked Il
e with your eve and how nice and war;
e it was and what it tasted like.
/ II. Don't hangyOur parasol on tn
cord that passes down the middle {
n the car. 1t isn't a clothes-line
$ looks like one, but it isn't.
/ u. Keep an eye on the Passenge
a who calls the day after Monda
e "Chewsday." He can't be trusted
0 cars length.
e 13. Do not attempt to change
T twenty dollar bill for any one if yo
d have only 1925 with you; it can't b
J.. done
: II. If you want n nap always Ii
e with your head projecting over the en-
e of the seat into the aisle. Then ever
5 body who goes up or down the aisl
: will mash your hat, straighten OF
= your frizes, and knock off your bac
e hair. This will keep you from sleeT
d ing 50 soundly that you will be carrie
Y past your station,