Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-30
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 "obarge it and send the
bill to your husband" And i, he says the
price Of the ticket is S2.0G, don't tell him
you can get one just like it at the other
store for $3.50; he won't believe you and
he may laugh at you.
3. Never travel without money. 1t re-
quires broad views, liberal education, keen
disoernment, and profound judgment to
tTaYel without money. No one can do this
successfully but tramps and editors.
4. Beware Of the commercial traveller.
D. Don't give stranger your ticket
and ask him to check your trunk He
will usually be only to glad to do it, and
your trunk will be so effectually checked
that it will never catch up with you again.
Aud then when the conductor asks for
your ticket aud 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
eye, and say that il is beautiful romance,
bat he has heard it before. And then you
will put up your jewelry or disembark at
the next station.
6. II you are going three hundred miles
don't try to get of the train every fifteen
minutes under the impression that you are
there. II you get there in twelve hours
you will be doing well.
7. Call the brakeman conductor, he has
grown proud since he got his new uniform,
and it will fatter him.
8. Put your shawl strap, bundle and
two PAPER parcels in the hat rack, hang
your bird cage to the corner of it so that
when it falls off it will fall 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 be-
side you, fold the shawls on top Of it, carry
your pocket book ia one hand and your
silver mug in the other, put your two
valises under the seat and hold your band
box and the rest Of your thugs in your
lap. Then you will have all your baggage
handy, and won't be worried or Rustered
about it when you have only twenty nine
seconds in which to change cars.
o. Address the conductor every ten
minutes. 1t pleases him to have you no.
tice him. II you can't think Of any new
question to ask him ask the same old one
every time. Always call him say or mis-
ter.
H. I lCh up hli luo AlAOl uldtloh gou
can while travelling. Open the window
! and look toward 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 il
tasted like.
12. Keep an eye an the passenger who
calls the day after Monday Chewesday
He can't be trusted a cars length.
13. Do not attempt to change ten dol
| lar bill for somebody, il you have Onl!
| 1925 with you it can't be done.
ia. II you want to take a nap alway.
lie with your head projecting over the enc
| Of the seat into the aisle. Then every
body who goes up or down the aisle viii
mash your hat, straighten out your Irizze
and knock of your back hair.
This will keep you from sleeping 81
sound that you will be carried by you
station.