Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-19
WOMAN IN THE SLEEPER.
Brief Review of Common and Extended
ENnerienCeS.

Experiences.
There is a good deal of fault found by
writers for newspapers over the inadequate
accommodations for women in the sleeping
cars at present in use Women, as a gen
erai thing. DO not grumble much about
such things, through the newspapers, but
the writers who are troubled for subjects
to write about are constantly holding up
the sleeping car as an outrage on women,
and calling loudly for apartment cars, in
which they can be more excluded when
travelling An apartment car might fill a
want long felt, as far as isolating ladies is
concerned, so that they could dress and I'M
dress in comfort. 4 man can get into
berth and shuck himself very comfortably.
He can stand on his knees and duck his
head and take off some of his clothes, and
then he can lie down on his shoulders or
the back of his neck and kick off other ar
ticles of wearing apparel, because when the
buttons are unbuttoned his clothes are as
! liable to come off in the dark as in the
| lipbt. But it is different with women.
| Her clothes are pinned on with all kinds Of
pins, from the safety-pin to the darning
needle, tied on with strings, hooked on
with hooks-and-eyes, buckled on with
| buckles, and put on in many ways only
| known to the fair sex. Give her a large
enough room, three or four gas lamps and
a large mirror, and plenty of time, and she
can find nearly all the pins, strings, hooks
and-eyes, buckles, etc, and what she
can't find she can break at night
and tie up in the morning but place her
| in IA small berth in the dark, with only two
ewes to watch all the holes in the curtain
10 see if any body is looking, and only two
small hands to find things to unfasten, and
she is in bad box. Add to ali these ca
lamities, such as pins, hooks, strings and
buckles, seven hundred hair pins and an
invisible net that is invisible even in the
day time, and quantity of hair that has
no visible means of support, and shoes
with fifteen buttons on or laced up for quite
a distance, and you will not wonder that
the woman who had her berth made up
first is the last to retire, and almost before
you hear the last corset string break at
night YOU hear her trying to get her clothes
on in the morning With all these things
to contend with, it is not to be wondered at
that women are frequently heard to say
a sleeping-car. They don't have time
!
sleeping berth 10 put a bushel OF
pins and things and by the time she has
got her clothes half off she is exhausted
and lies down with her mouth full OF hair
pins to wait for daylight, so she can open
the window curtain and take an account OF
stock If Mr. Pullman would place clothes
basket in every berth, or q bureau, or even
what-not, it would he better; but 8
woman's mind cannot be at rest suficien;
10 sleep when she believes that her corset
on which she has stuck the safety pins, and
the hustle. with the iewelry tied up in it
are going to fall out Of the berth on to the
floor and be commented on by dozen male
passengers, and she lies there with her eyes
vide open. wondering if the porter viii not
know enough to let her shoes alone wher
he finds a yard OF silk stocking in each
shoe. and Wishing she had her 81 back
There are more hatreds eugendered between
women on sieeping-cars than anywhere OF
earth, unless it is in church. Suppose
there are 4 dozen women in aAsleeper, and
one toilet room Passengers are awakened
say an hour before the train arrives al il;
destination. The first woman who get;
/ into that toilet room will lock the door
and stav in there until she has made a.
elaborate a toilet as she would at home
while the other eleven women are waiting
with their hair in one hand and hairpin:
in the other, ard satchel on their arms
and they hate the woman in the room
When She comes out, the one with thC
mcsi gall gets in the room next, and though
she has talked outrageously about the one
who went in first, she stays quite as long
! until the other ten women hate her, even
worse than they did the first, The ten la
dies who are waiting viii by this time have
concluded that there Is no show for them
and they viii try and fix up so they car
90 10 q hotel before making their toilet
The only two who will be fixed up Will be
those who have been hoggish, crowded il
, and remained regardless OF the comfort Of
; others Many ladies who travel on sleep
ers never try to get in the toilet-room IL
J the morning, because there are always one
, or two who nave seemed TO he awake al
night in order 10 make a rush on the wash
room before anybody else. Some ladie:
who travel a good deal can pick out th'
one, the night before, who will mOnoPoliz'
, the toilet-room in the morning. Whethe
it Is by the busy appearance or not, nobod.
but woman knows PeoA's Sun.