The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-25
ENGLISH sLEEPING-oARs.
Ridiculous DIeknma of m Innocent Malo
Traveller,

Traveller.
The following from the London Daily
News shows concusiyely that not only in
cmigrant ships but in railroad carriages
the English women require much more
protection against shocks to modesty than
American women, for 1t is pretty certain
that not one man i'm ten who has travelled
in American Sleeping-cars ever noticed an
indicate action on the part of fellow
passenger:
"A new route has been established this
wear 20 Switzerland. Leaving London at 10
Il. m. Won find yourself in the afternoon at
Calais; there You take train direct to
Basic. had Invested the sum of Is shil-
lings in ticket for the seeping-car. This
car consists of compartments containing
either two or four cOuches. The couch to
which my ticket gave Inc right was. |
found, in one of the compartments, licensed
to carry four. Three ladies already were
there when | entered it, To say
that was received cordially would
be an exaggeration. The ladies' felt
that ! was an intruder, and, to say
the truth being myself somewhat bashtul
man, felt So too. | took my seat. The
| ladies whispered to each other and eyed me
as did the nymphs by the streams of HellaS
when 4 shepherd broke i'll upon their nata-
| tory exercises. | essayed re-
mark or two about the weather and
other COmmonplaCeS. The responses
were mOnOSyllabic. In the day
| time these compartments have only two
courhcs facing each other. AT night two
! others we're arranged overhead like berth>
in ship. We had passed Amens when
the attendant entered with a number oil
! sheets in hls hand. The ladies looked aghast
so did l. 0nc-an elderly spinster-sup
| posed that was gong to remain
and thus prevent her and her companion
from taking the rest for which they had
paid A bush sutlused my check, but
| plucked up sufficient courage to hint that
too had parted with coin ofthe realm in or
dpa to enjoy little repose. After u chorus
of Well, | nevern it was finally agreed
that shonld retire into the passage until
the ladies had got into their beds ana drawn
the curtains before each of the bowers. TIC
this | assented, and, having paced the pas.
sage for about half an hour, returned. All
the curtains were drawn. Il hope you are
not undrcssing2 proceeded from behind
the curtain of the elderly spinster He
won't have the impotence to do anything
of the kind floatcd through the air from
behind another curtain. Ladies' | said
sleep in maiden meditation behind your
curtains. am clothed from head to foot.
| propose to divest myself Of my coat and
my boots; shall then climb up into my
berth draw my curtain, and you will sec
nothing more Of me until tomorrow morn
ing Mind, sir only your coats and boots,
! SAID the elderly spinster, and with this part
ing warning, l turned in The train
was timed to reach Basic at 6 a. m.
. An hour before that time my rest was dis
! turbcd by shrill cries from behind the cur
taius | was stcrnly ordered to get up and
go at once into the corridor in order that
the nymphs might also rise. no, ladies,
| answered, I mean to remain in bed until
we arrive. Get up without fear, and trust
to the innate chivalry of the humble male
who now addresses you. He pledges his
word of honor not to peep through the
parting of his curtain SO they got up.
aud did not look. My experiences Of this
night led me 10 suggest that in sleeping
cars the sexes shonld be placed apart, and
that there should be a separate compart-
ment for men and another for women, ir.
stead of the present eclectic arrangement,