Smyrna times., 1880-03-17
Women Travellers.


has opened nae twelve times in half an
hour; what for, | can't see. She doesn't
always take things out. believe she likes
to hear my catch snap"
Perhaps" said the Lunch Basket; "but
watch her with me--two sandwiches, two
apples, four cakes, one orange and one
banana since we started, beside any quantity
of chocolate creams. | am rather new, you
see; this is cay first journey with a lady
Do they always eat like this?i
" She does it to occupy her mind, sup
pose, said tho Bag have eiten noticed
that people eat when there is nothing else
TO do. | saw it on the steamer when we
went abroad
Well hate it, said the Basket. "It
looks SO greedy, eating all the tirae. don't
think like travelling with Ladies, anyway"
Like it," said the Bag. 81 should
tAink not indeed They are never quite
mement. A man, now, Just dua ps us down,
and that's the end of US unit the train
stops, when he snatches us up again and
rushes Off But woman! FIRST she gets
into the Pullman car, and wonders whore
her seat is; cant md the number, and
won't believe tha porter; SO looks over
everyhody's head or under everJbody'B feet
until she secs it herself"
"Wsll, really" laughed the Basket, al
don't much blame her for not finding the
number. Of course, | have Travelled very
little yet; hut it seems to me they try TO
put it just where people cant SOC it,
perhaps" said the Bag. but a woman
always has to fuss just SO much; the cause
doesn't make any great ditterOues.'
" hope she settles down now said the
Basket.
Mercy" said the Bag how much ysu
have to learn, poor thing; this iS only the
beginning. She takes her seat, but finds it
sunny, and wants all the blinds pulled
down; then she tries to wedge her bag
between two chairs, and when the old
gentleman in front Of her wants to whe~l
his seat round he can't because the bag is in
the way. He looks te find what il the
matter, but the lady takes no notice of him,
and he makes some exclamation to him.
self, which we don't wish to repeat. Then
nav lady wants II faotstool, and the porter
cannot find one for the n.oment; SO, of
course, she must have it directly, and
cannot travel another moment without it.
At last, after making the porter poke under
every ybody's chair, she gets up and discovers
it under her own, where il has aeon all the
time"
What women want fust,teols for
can see" interrupted the Basket: zone
is always stumbling over thom in dark
drawing rooms, ana told
"OA it is notion said the Bag, "aAd
aides, notions are very obstiuate things.
That is the reason they get their own way
30 often. Msn have not tiMe to bother
about a whim, and 80 tnry give UP to it.
1t saves temper"
80 it does" says the Basket. "Well 90
on. After ;he foatstoO'?'
I'll ~ anSws the bag, she talk es
out her novel and scent bottle and is quite
for a whils hut pretty soon she feels the
dust coming in from the open ventilator,
and although the thermometer was ninety
in the car, it has to he clos4d-the poor.0ld
gentleman in front of her red as a boiled
| lobster. Then she eats her lunch and
wants the window opened to throw away
the apple parings. BY this tiras tho poor
| porter has wisely disappeared, so she tugs
and tugs in vain. At last she looks around
| n ar injured way, and says; will no
| gentleman assist ms?"
"WomsR never do understand catches, y
said the Basket. 80 men say explain a
lock to them dozens of times. and they will
always pull the wrong way
"Quito true" said the Bag " we'll, eae
Of the gentlemen in the Car gets the wiadow
open for her and shuts it aitc ward. Thea
she is thirsty and wants a drink of water
SO she goes to the ice-cooler, swaying iRtG
everybody 10y the way. Presently the con.
ductor comes for tho tickets, and hers can
be found. although she has shown it before
She looks for it in her purse, in her bag, in
/ han IttF IA h,, ,lyok
last, when the condu ,nr loses all patience
smashed, where she had put it fors.. safe
keeping"
"Good gracious" said the Basket. "don T
say any moro. You make ras feel faint
We have journey Of ten hours before us
| Why don't women stay at homs?"
" Dear me y said the Bag; "you talk
like provsrbs-womsR don't say at home
any more; that's exploded long ago
haven't you read tho papers? They are
trying to bS like men, and so, of course
they travel to see the world, you know: -:
" How can one see the world by OpeRin,
windows, eating bananas and bothSrin,
conductors p said the Basket. Now. !
they locked At the scenery | could under
stand"
"Scsnsryr laughed the Bag; "precou
few people care for scenery in this age
they want ts get over as much ground a
possible; that's all. If they can only sa,
they have been to place it seems enough
Why, our lady slept all the way over tn
Simplon when we were in Switzerland, an,
knew no more about it than the things il
her trunk did. But never mind, she ha,
been there, SO she was satisfied"
But" said the Bag. "dees travelin
pay? | would rather eat and sleep a
home comfortably"
People think it pays, suppose" SAT-
the Bag. They do it, at any rate. Yo
know one need only 20 through the motion
of things now. They are quite dumb il
reality, but if they make the signs peepl
are content. What they see in trave
doesn't matter; thoy may go to sleep or ca
oranges; they have made the signs, that
enough"
"Sgns seem to give a great deal c
trouble" said the Basket "but | suppsS
| shall get used to it. Dear nae! she
, going to eat another apple"
Astuts politicians who belong to tn
3 dominant party in congress are anxious t
r get their business done and adjourn, lei
{ some Of the hot heads may do some indi
Greet thing and thus frghten the more COZ
Servative part Of the country. About tn
+. first Of June is now named as the time
a probable adjournment. No long debat
D involving questions that will excite violer
antagonism will probably be tolerated. a
6 that, being put over until tho next session
a Tariff legislation ia to he deferred amen
. other things and this Of itself, will faciltat
. the time of adjournment. The sxcitemsn
2 Of presidential year generally disturb tn
f business Interests of the country, and whe
Q it is known that nothing dangerous
threatened by national legislation, busine
men will breathe freer.
a StOnewall Jackson will never pass fror
. the minds of the people of Virginia. |
. the Virginia Senate few DAYS ago the bi