The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-12-28


Mrs. Adam Acton. an English lady
who has one residence In st. Johns
Wood. London. hnd another IN 0rmi-
dale, Arran. Ia the heroine Of the latest
remarkable pedestrian ieat-a walk
of five hundred mites III England and
Scotland. beginning In London and
ending In Glasgow. and performed.
not alone. but In the company OF her
whole family of six children. the eldest
OF whom Il twelve years and the young
eat twelve months. The latter. II need
hardly be said. did not walk the whole
distance. being wheeled. In fact, to-
gether with his feeding bottla aud
appurteuances thereto belonging. In
baby carriage. Mrs. Acton. In tho
course Of conversation with scotch
reporter on the experience Of her trip,
remarked; You must bear Ia mind
that we hnd no Idea when we started ot
doing any thtng wonderful Ia walking.
We come up frorx London every year
from our house here In ArrRn; and "a
We went down by rail no loss than
nine tunes last year. we Thought wa
would walk this year and see the coun-
try, for. % course, you never see any
thing of Il from the window OF a rail-
way car
.sOur party consisted OF six children.
the youngest in our famous baby coach.
which has been. oh. thousands OF miles
on the Continent and in England and
Scotland. and my husband and myself
and two mnids-ten In all. When we
started from ST. Johns Wood we each
took small black bag In our hands;
but we soon had to give these up.
Afterward we had absolutely nothing
but night-gown and macintosh
each. There was ono BRUSH and ono
comb for myself and oil the children.
We really couldn'e carry more than
the least possible quantity OF luggage.
you know. Tea-my husband is so
fond OF cup OF tea-so we carried
our tea all the way from London; and
we had kettle. too; one of those fiat
ones 10 boil over spirit lRmp. and the
spirit lamp itself. And. u course tho
baby. being a young baby and fed on
tho bottle. obliged US TO carry tin
can OF milk. We 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, wa found that we
could not walk afterward. We had
eggs aud milk. and bread and butter
| 10 any amount The meat we had was
almost entirely timed meat. which we
| bought with bread in the town or viii
| lage i'm the morning. and carried with
| us till we came TO a suitable place for
dinner We had dinner in tho open
air always. Then for tea we had jus,
10 cali and get a kettle OF water and
the use OF tea things. which they were
always glad TO supply us for a shilling
(twenty-flve cents.)
"0f course tho trouble was boots, y
Mrs. Acton continued. ''We were
recommended all sorts OF hygieniC
soles. and every thing. and we tried
every thing. and we had TO give them
all up. We gave up boots altogeiherand
took to sand shoes'-canvas shoes with
India rubber soles. Those allow the feet
to go any how they like; there is nc
pressure and we found them admirable
We never got blisters or sore feet or
aHN NnbhAt We Nr0A W cRAF hhA WV
aud heels and the inside OF our stock
ings before we started; that is very
. good thing. Then as TO washing. We
could not possibly stop TO have every
thing washed at the inns aud places
, so the way we managed our washing
was TO have one thing washed every
night. We found we could always ge
one thing washed aud quickly got up
! and so we had clean things without tn,
! trouble of carrying any with US. w,
carried no umbrellas. But though tn,
weather was very bad in England W,
did very well without In the frs
, part of the time we walked in oui
I mackintoshes and hats that the raiI
would not hurt. or course il was very
3 muddy, and. what with the mud anC
, the rain and the sun. our dress got int
|. such a state we were quite ashamed o
ourselves. And on Saturday nights w,
had to stop somewhere and buy flower
or some little frilling or something {,
brighten up our hats to go 10 church
on the next morning. But we neve
had colds, in spite of having no um
e brellas. and, though we had grea
c deal of gray, cold weather that peopl
D complained of, we found it splendi'
1 weather for walking. Coz PtiJddcl
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