Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-22
Rules for Ladies Travelling Alone,

l. BE sure you know where YOU want
to 90 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 it and send the
bill to your husband" And if he saws the
price of your ticket is 50 90, don't tell him
you can get one just like it Of the conduct
or. or at the other store for 80 so; he won I
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.
~. Reware of the commercial travel
er.
V. Don't give stranger your ticket
and ask him to go 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 effectually check
ed that it will never catch up with you
again. And then when the conductor asks
for your ticket and you relate to MIN the
pleasing little allegory about theastranger
and the baggage, he will look increduous
and smile down upon you from half-closed
eyes, and say that it is IA beautiful romance,
but he has heard it before. And then you
will put up your jewelry or diselnbark at
vi. If You are going three hundred
miles, don't try to get off the train every
fifteen minutes, under the impres sion that
you are there. If you get there in twelve
hours you will be doing excellently.
VII. Call the brakeman "conductor" !;
he has grown proud since he got his new
uniform, and it will hatter him.
VIII. 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 drop into the
lap of an old gentleman sitting behind you
stand your four house plants on the win
dow sill, set your lunch basket on the seat
beside you, fold your shawls on the top of
it, carry your pocketbook in one hand and
hold your silver mug in the other, put
your two vaises under the seat and hold
your bandbox and the rest of your things
in your lap. Then you will have all your
baggage handy, and won't be worried or
fustered about it when you have only
twenty-nine seconds in which to change
cars
TX. Address the conductor every ten
minutes. 1t 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
one every time. Always call him Say,
or" Mister"
X. Pick up all the information you can
while travelling. Open the window and
look forward to see how fast the engine is
going. Then when you get home you car
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.
XG. Don't hang your parasol on the
cord that passes down the middle of the
car. 1t isn't clothes line. 1t looks like
one but it isn't.
XII. Keep an eye on the passenger
who calls the day after Monday "Chews
day" He can't be trusted cars length
XIII, Do not attempt to change SIC
bill for any one, if you have only $9.2t
with you; it can't be done.
XIV. If you want a nap, always lii
with your head projecting over the end o
the seat, into the asie. Then everybod,
who goes up and down the asile will masl
your hat, staighten out your frizzes, and
knock off your back hair. This will keel
you from sleeping so soundly that yOl
will be carried by your station. .-Burdett
IN HaObeye.