Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-07-14
NO. 164.
miscellaneous.
RULES FOR LADIES TRAVELLING ALONE.

l. BE sure YOU know where you want
TO 60 before YOU get on the train.
III. When YOU purchase your ticket
YOU will have to pay for it; no use to tell
the ticket agent to "charge II and send
the bill to Your husband" And If he says
the price of the ticket is 1896, don't tell
him that You can get one Just like ii OF the
conductor at the other store. for $3.50:
he won't believe you and he may laugh
at You.
Ill. Never travel without money. 1t.
requires broad views, liberal education,
keen discernment and profound Judgment
to travel without money. No one can do
this successfully but tramps and editors.
". Beware of the commercial travel
er.
V. Don't give stranger your ticket and
ask him to 80 out and check your trunk
He will usually be only too glad to do it.
And what is more he will do il, and your
trunk will be SO ctlcctually checked that
it will never catch up with YOU again.
And then when the conductor asks for
Your ticket and you relate to him the
pleasing little allegory about the stranger
and the baggage, he will look incredulous
and smile down upon you from half closed
eve, and say that il is n beautiful romance
but he has heard il before. And then you
will put up your iewelry or discmbark
at the next station.
vi. If you are going three hundred
miles. don't try to get off the train every
fifteen minutes under the impressiori>tbat
YOU are there. II you get there in twelve
hours you will he doing cxccllentlv.
VII Call the brakeman conductor :"
he has grown proud since he got
his new uniform, and it will tlatter him.
VIII. Put your shawl strap. bundle
and two paper parcels in the hat rack,
hang your bird cage to the corner of il,
so that when it falls off it will drop into
the lap of the old gentleman sitting be-
hind you. stand your four house plants on
the window sill, set YOUR lunch basket on
the seat beside you. fold your shawls on
top of it, carry your pocket book in one
hand and hold your silver mug in the
other, put your two valiscs under the seat
and hold your bandbox and the rest of
your things IN your lap. Then you will
have all of your baggage handy, and
won't be worried or flustcred about it
when You have only twcnty-nine seconds
in which to change ears.
| IN. Address the conductor every ten
minutes II pleases him to have you no
tice him. If you can't think of any new
question to ask HIM. ask him the same old
oneevery time. Always call him Say
or Mister"
y. Always pick up all the information
you can while travelling. Open the win
dow and look forward to see how fast the
engine is going. Then when you get
home You can tell the children about the
big cinder you picked up with your eye,
and how nice and warm it was and what
it tasted like.
nj. Don't hang your 'parasol on the
cord that passes down the middle of the
car. 1t isn't a clothes line 1t looks like
one, but it isn't.
MI. Keep an eye on the passenger
who calls the day after Monday "Chews-
day. He can't be trusted a cars length.
XIII. DO not attempt to change S20
bill for any one, if you have only 1926
with you it can't be done.
XIV. 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 or down the aisle will mash
your hat, straightcn out your frizzes, and
knock off your back hair. This will keep
You from sleeping so soundly that you
will be carried by your tation.-Buviing-
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