The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-07

his feediax botfie and apPurf<1snces
| thereto belonging In . baby czyrSzxe-
Mr~ Acton, IN the course ct CONVEX
safion wish . Scotch reporter on the
Iexperience of her trip, remarked:
You must bear IN mind that Ne had
no sdea when re started Of doing any
thing wonderful IN waking Wecsfne
ap from London every year % orr
! house here IN Arrzn. and ~ we went
doxn by rail no less than rlne times
! last year. we thought we xoaid walk
this rear and see the coantry. for OF
eaarse. you never could see any-
thing 81 Il from the Windows Of = rali-
way ear.
-Sour PARTY consisted Of SIX children.
the yonngest in our famous baby coach.
whieh has been, oh. thousands OF miles
on the continent and in England and
Scotland. nsy husband and myself and
tEo naiaz--fen IN all. When We
/ Starfesa from 81. Johns Weed sc
earh took 4 small, black bag in our
hands. but are soon had 70 give
ttoze mp. Afte-warsi we had
absolutely nothing but nightgowa
and mac kintoSh each. There was oae
t,sash and one comb for myself and
ali the children. We really couldn't
carry more than the least quantity Of
luggage, you know fea-nly husband
! Is 50 fond OF a cup OF tea--So We carried
! our tea all the way from London: and
we had kettle. TOO. one OF those .lat
ones. to boil over q spirit lamp, and
the spirit lamp itself And OF course
| the bzby. being a Young baby. and fed
on the bottle, obliged Us 20 bring q tin
can of milk We had very light fare.
As sosn as We got into the north OF
! England We always had poritee for
/ breakfast. We never had much NEST !;
on the only two occasions when We
had really good dinner We found We
could net walk afterwards. We had
eggs. and milk, and bread and butter
10 any amount. The meat We had YVES
almost entirely timed meat. which
| we bought. with bread, in the town or
village in the morning. and carried
with rs till we came to a suitable place
| for dinner We had dinner In the
open air always. Then for tea we hal
Just TO call at cottage and get a ket-
| lie of water and the use Of tea-thlBgs.
which they were always glad TO supply
us for a shilling TWENTY-FIVE cents1. !.
s'0f course the trouble was boots,
Mrs. Acton continued. "We were rec
commended all sorts OF .hygienic soles
and everything, and we tried every
thing and we had 10 give them all up.
We gave up boots altogether and took
to sand shoes'--caBvas shoes with
India rubber soles. Those allow the
feet to 90 anyhow they like; there is
no pressure and we found them adj
mirahle. We never got bli-ters or
sore feet or anything. We used TO
soap our toes and heels and the Inside
OF our stockings before we started !;
that is very good thing. Then as to
washing, we could not possibly stop to
have everything washed at the inns
and places, so the way We managed
our washing was TO have one thing
washed each night. We found we
could always get one thing washed
and quickly got up, and so we had
clean things without the trouble OF
carrying any with us. We carried no
umbrellas. But though the weather
was very bad in England We did very
wei without. In the first part OF the
time we walked in our mackintoshes
and hats that the rain would not hurt.
OF course, il was very muddy, and,
what with the mud and the
rain and the sun. our dress
Ept INTO SUCH St1kt We were
quite ashamed OF ourselves; and
on Saturday nights we had to stop
somewhere and buy flowers or some
little frilling or something to brighten
up our hats to go to church in next
morning. But we never had colds, in
spite of having no umbrellas, and
though we had great deal of gray
cold weather that people complain of,
We found it splendid weather for walk
ing.
Nurse wheeled that baby coach the
whole way, although, as it was con-
tinually raining. you may imagine the
roads were frightfully heavy. Baby
got quite like a gypsy; he quite en-
joyed it. First thing in the morning
tie used to say, sTite ready; tite ready
10 goln We walked on an average IL
miles day. We made IL rule to
start by half-past Z, after breakfast.
We walked a few hours and then
rested during the heat of the day, and
walked again in the afternoon. Hav-
ing so many children with us the
anxiety was to get in some place for
stopping at before dark-by 6, ii pos
sible, but never later than !. Some
times we had great difficulty in getting
accommodated. Sometimes We had
the toughest lodgings, and sometimes
we were at the most splendid hotels.
We took just what we could find in fact.