Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-18
European Travel.

European Travel.
In these days everybody wants to 60,
abroad" from fashionable "Mrs. GINS
who is so "ill"
THAT nothing will improve her
Unless she sees the Tuileries.
And waddles through the Louvren
to the country school mistress, the so,o.
throated minister and the perenn;o,
bride and groom. How to 20 is a POM.
lar question every season, and I purnos.
giving definite instructions that will AN
able four ladies, under certain condi.
tons, to travel for nearly five months !.
England, Scotland, France, Belpinmn
Germany, Switzerland and Italy. hau'
ing everything essential to comfort. and
spending only six hundred dollars. eI1
elusive of their steamer tickets. Tho
writer knows whereof she afirms, fos
she was herself one of four ladies who
made the trip a year or two ago. Fonr
is the best number, easily managed easilv
accommodated IN n carriage, in two
rooms; four divide the expense nicely
more make a 1crowd'.fewerare likely
to be lonely. 1t is well if one be a Ems.
dame" but if all are single, the nartr
should not be too youthful. Each lady
must be intelligent, good natured. onick
w,tted and healthy. Some of the partv
should be able to speak French ana
German, and to understand boil. ofthesa
languages when spoken. Women unac.
customed to travel, TO human nature. to
using money %judiciously and to keeping
an account Of the same, ought not to Join
in the undertaking. When four suit
able persons are agreed, bit is best to
mar out a route, to study distances. di.
viding up the time to the places. Changes
can be made later; forethought saves
money and prevents vexatious mistakes.
Read . little on art. architecture and
what you expect to see of historical in.
terest. Don't cram an excited mind ali
at once with that which you can learn
in travel with keener enjoyment,
Now, the outfit. A steamer.chair for
each person, and two moderately large
trunks for the four. Arriving in Liver.
pool, you will leave your trunks there
with your heavy wraps and everything
carried merely for steamer use. Wear on
the voyage o very warm dress. Leave Il
with your wraps, and start from Liver.
pool in a fresh travelling suit, plain, dark
and handsomely fitted. If You can pet
along with but one heavy garment, an
ulster is enough from May to October:
in warm days it is easily strapped
everything superiuons causes sinful
emotions. Shut up your bonnet from
the dampness during the voyage. Let
it be neat. close, pretty, but not large
or wild in style, or you will hate it later.
Have soft, warm head-gear for deck
wear. Carry in a small compass reme-
dies for ordinary ~ailments-for that par.
ticular II to whic y you are subject. II
may be neuralgia. You will have an at
tack 40 miles from a drug store if YOU do
not take precautions. Now comes a test
of common sense; but rest assured ifyou
follow the advice here given you need
never look travel-stained or untidy,
but always cal be well dressed.
Let each lady buy a strong. good
looking leather bag, such as
is sold for about six to eight dollars. It
has two compartments and a sort of
portfolio between. 1t holds all one
need carry for the trip, goes everywhere
with one, and costs next to nothing as
luggage. 1t il always seized by the ON
nispresent porter, who lifts it off and on
cars or run with it TO carriages for a
few pennies. Times without number
one man has snatched up our four, stow.
ed them under car-seats or over our
heads, and been off helping bewildered
tourists hunt lost trunks-to find them
after every good seat was taken. Our
clean collars were admired and our ease
taking envied by many a worried coun-
trywoman. Each of these bags will hold
four changes of Undertaking washing
is done everywhere at short notice.,
one nice black silk dress
with few ruf1les to be tumbled), and one
stylish Atwood dress-you start with a
new dress, SO these, beside the one left
for the steamer, win prove all-suficent;
slippers, and an extra pair of walking
shoes, pretty breakfast sacque, and all
other small articles required. For the
steamer you want a loose flannel wrap
per to wear at night, and if i'll in the
daytime. A light canvas schScl bag car
ried on the arm is a fine catch-all. 1t
holds guide books, gossamer cape, and
'"tag ends" which refuse to 90 in the big
bag as you journey, but for the sake of
looks as we'll as convenience don't get
four just alike. Have a light umbrella.
as small as is reasonable.-The Con-
tinent,