The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-07-30
Travelling.


is natural one) this word brings to the
minds eye of my youthful reader. To
travel. How delightful. But all! she
exclaims, I'll have to wait so long.
Traveling's expensive, and I'm not rich.
My dear. what write now is meant
just for you. Those who are rich may
make their travelling just as expensive
as they choose. but those who are not
can accomplish almost as much, at very
little more cost than staying at home.
Yes, l once thought just as you do-that
/ couldn't afford to travel. Now l see
that | can't afford not to do SO.
First of all, consider that, at certain
seasons OF the year, most of the rail-
roads sell excursion tickets at reduced
rates, usually between the great cities
and leading resorts in the North during
the spring and summer. in the South dur
ing the fall and winter. BY taking your
trip at the right time you eau save near
ly half the regular fare, which is quite
an item.
Having thought over the question of
car-fare and boat-fare, take up that of
dress. Resolve to discard the big
trunk, whatever happens, for, under
the most favorable circumstances, such
a thing is more or less of a nuisance.
Take but one dress, and that the one
you wear. Let il be of dark, servicea-
BILE material, such as flannel, debege or
bunting, and plainly made. Provide
yourself with stout boots and good
shawl. Carry one suit of clean under
clothing, and few handkerchiefs,
collars, cuffs and neckties, all done up
compactly, with your comb. brush, etc.,
in linen wrapping and shawl strap.
Ii might be well, also, to have merino
vest, in case of sudden change of
weather or latitude. An mister will not
only protect your dress, but afford con-
venient receptacies for little articles in
its capacious pockets. Wear plain
walking or shade-hat. and have an ample
veil, both to protect your face and to
hide your hair in case of its becoming
disarranged, or, when making long
journey, especially in disagreeable
weather, you do not wish to take down
your crimps. Lisle thread gloves are
cooler. and also less expensive and less
perishable than kid moreover, they
are in better taste for travelling.
This is positively all you need. 1t
sounds like little, but you viii find it
quite enough. If you visit while on
your journey, and your dress itself is
inconspicuous, little extra pains with
the ornamentation at the neck will
make all the alteration really necessary.
OF course il you travel with the desire
of showing your clothes, why. take your
best bib and tucker. have presumed,
to begin with, that you travel for the
sake OF seeing the country, consequently
will not stop long enough in one place
to need any great change. Your under
clothing. as you start, ought to last YOU
two weeks. A little delay will enable
you to have it laundried, should you de-
sire to go on for a longer time, or you
could send your soiled pieces home, and
have clean ones forwarded you by ex-
press for a sum comparatively small,
and which you would find yourself more
willing to give than be troubled with a
large trunk or bundle; provided, of
course, that you are not so far away as
to make it cheaper to buy new.
In planning out beforehand a season s
wardrobe, if you make up your mind to
travel several weeks, you see that you
will not neea so many new dresses, as
YOU will have less opportunity to wear
them. Here. then, is another margin
for saving something toward your trip.
Remember, also, that while you are
gone some of your incidental home ex-
penses are done away with. If you pay
board, you can count upon all. or a
great portion of the money usually paid
for this purpose, as being diverted into
your travelling fund; for it is just as ex-
pensiye, more or less. to live in one
place as in another. Now you begin to
see how you can travel, and still spend
not q great deal more than you would
ut home.
Next, cut down the hotel bills. In
fact, don't go 70 hotel al all if you
can avoid it. You may think it neces-
sary, as they say, to have ''the best OF
everything" in order to keep up your
dignity, but this is a great mistake. II
you travel for the sake of buying other
people elegant carpets and silverware,
rs well as please Mrs. Grundy. all right;
but if you travel to see the wonders OF
nature and art and to please yourself,
why manage your own affairs, regard
less of what your friends may think.
But, you say, maybe they'll think I'm
poor. Not q bit OF it. Most likely
they'll think you're rich. else how could
YOU travel at alp Furthermore. they
won't know how much your pocket
book holds if you don't tell, and in fact
it ought to hold considerably more dol
lars than you think you will need, fol
you don't know what may happen
Moreover. it is always the poor who
spend the most when they get chance
to spend at all; the rich, as genera
thing, better understand the value oil
money. and manage it very much bet
ter. l know of a millionaire who had
an old coat made over.
do not mean, however, that yor
should go to cheap. dingy lodging
house. and run you know not what risks
simply in the hope of saving few dol
lars Manage somewhat in this way: