Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-15
FIVE HUNDRED MILES.
A FAMILY TAKE A TRAMP THROUGH
 ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.

GN0kfANO flNO SSO LfNNCs Chat with the Heroine of the Latest Re markable Pedestrian Feat-six Children. the Eldest Twelve Years old-Baby's Enjoyment-The Outfit. Mrs Adams Acton of Sunnyside, St. Johns wood, and Ormidale, Arran, is the heroine of the latest remarkable pedestrian feat-a walk of 500 miles in England and Scotland, beginning at London and ending in Glasgow, and performed, not alone, but in the com pany of her whole family of six children, the eldest of whom is 12 years and tie youngest 12 months. The latter, it need hardly be said, did not walk the whole distance, being wheeled in fact, together with his feeding bottle and appurtenances thereto belonging, in perambulator.
 ''With pleasure" was Mrs. Acton's cheer full response to the request for particulars of her remarkable walk.
 "To begin with, of whom did your party consistn
 "There were the six children, the youngest in our famous perambulator, which has been, oh, thousands of miles on the continent and in England and Scotland, and my husband and myself and two maids-ten in all."
 A LIGHT OUTFIT.
 "What was your outfit9'
 "When we started from Sunnyside, our house in St Johns Wood, we each took a small black bag in our hands, but we soon had to give those uo. Afterward We had ab- solutely nothing but nightgown and a macintosh each. There was one brush and one comb for myself and all the children. We really couldn't carry more than the least possible quantity of luggage, you know. Tea my husband is so fond of good cup of tea-so we carried our tea all the way from London; and we had kettle, too, one of those fiat ones to boil over spirit lamp, and the spirit lamp itself. And, of course, the baby, being a young baby and fed on the bottle, obliged us to carry tin can of milk"
 "How did you managea And, by the way, what was your farer'
 I've had very light fare, As soon as we got into the north of England we always had porridge for breakfast We never had much meat. On the only two occasions when we had really good dinner we found we could not walk afterwards. We had eggs and milk and bread and butter to any amount. The meat we had was almost en- tirely timed meat, which we bought, with bread, in the town or village in a morning, and carried with us till we came to suit able place for dinner. We had dinner in the open air always. Then for tea we had just to call at cottage and get kettle of water and the use of tea things, which they were always glad to supply us with for shilling" PREVENTING SORE FEET.
 "Of course the trouble was boots," Mrs. Acton continued. "We were recommended all sorts of 'hygienic soles' and everything, and we tried everything and we hadito give them all up. We gave up boots altogether and took to sand shoes'-canvas shoes with india rubber soles. These allow the feet to go anyhow they like; there is no pressure, and we found them admirable. We never got blsters or sore feet or anything We used to soap our toes and heels and the in- sides of our stockings before we started i; that is very good thing Then as to wash ing, VIC could not possibly,stop to have every thing 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. A city man, neighbor of ours in London, asked mo before we started: How many umbrellas are you going to taker and when I replied, Not one.' ke was perfectly mortified; it made him quite i'll. But, though the weather was very bad in England, we did very we'll without, In the first part of the time we walked in our mackintoshes and hats that the rain would not hurt. Of course, 1t was very muddy and, what with the mud and the rain and the sun, our dress got into such a state 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 Nf xI it splendid weather for walking"
 And the babyF'
 'Oh, baby got quite like gypsy; he quite enjoyed it. First thing in the morning he used to say, 'Tite ready; tite ready to gor"
 AVERAGE PER DAY.
 "What distance did you cover in a day on the average?"
 "We walked sixteen and eighteen and one day twenty miles, but the average was twelve. We made it a rule to go twelve miles day. Sundays we rested We always felt very affectionately disposed toward the milestones. Here's another delightful mile stone,' the children would say. And that was one matter in which we saw q most remark able difference between Scotland anG England. Directly we got over the border there were neither milestones nor direction posts. We did find some near Ayr, but al broken, not the slightest use; while il England they were all so well kept yol couldn't go wrong."
 "What was your plan of walkingr "W' made it a rule to start by 7:30, after break fast We walked few hours and then rested during the heat of the day, and walked agai1 in the afternoon. Having so many childrei with us, the anxiety was to get into som place for stopping at before dark-bY 6. i possible, but never later than T. Sometime we had great difficulty in getting accommo dated-at Belper, for instance Sometime we had the toughest lodgings, and sometime we were at the most splendid hotels. w , just took what we could fnd in fact. W found we had to keep to the high roads, fo two reasons-first, that we must have goot
 road for the peramhulator, and the side road were so frightfully heavy and lumpy; an' for another thing we had to go to the town to put up-ten people arriving all at ono s and wanting beds is something alarming in small place. ."-Pall Mall Gazette. , A Skull for an Inkstand. Sarah Bernhardt's coffin, satin lined, an . ;p ono corpar. oE her. bedroom