Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
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identification 1t is on such credentials that
all travelling is done and millions of dollars
are paid out in this way at foreign banks
every month. Next, you need
APAssPoRT,
and this is especially necessary in Asia. You
can get this by applying at the state depart
ment at Washington, and it costs you 81 in
stead of s. as formerly. This is signed by
the secretary of state and gives a description
of you, the character of which can be well
understood by the following extract from my
own passport which lies before me.
Age thirty-threc years; stature five feet
eight inches; forehead high: eyes grey; nose
prominent; mouth medium; complexion fair;
face oval; chin short; hair auburn; lit is
rcd.)
This passport is as large as one Of the big
gest of Allen q. Thurman's red bandanna
handkerchiefs. 1t is made on parchment,
which contains in water lines a gigantic
American eagle and seal Of the department
of state.
AS TO BAGGAGE.
l carry three trunks, and two valises and
it is as necessary for a traveller here to have
his evening suit and swallow tail coat as it is
at Washington. | carry also Il cheap $3.50
nickle watch in addition to my gold one for
the differences of time in travelling n%ecessi-
tates so many changes that it would ruin
any fine piece of machinery. This watch
has twenty four feet Of spring and it takes
one a long time to wind 1t though it is a stem
winder. b. holding the screw on the wheel
of a jinriksha it winds itself in no time and
it does not seem to hurt the watch. AS to
clothing, one neeus a good supply of shirts
and ncckwear, and if you wish any books OF
reference you had better bring them with
you, as books are very high abroad. Hats
and underwear you can get anywhere, and
find that clothing is much cheaper here than
in America.
In addition TO clothes one should take O
supply of simple medicines with him and if
he is fastidious in the use of soaps and per-
fumery he had better lay in a good stock oil
articles of the toilet. One wants by all odds
a steamer chair and warm rugs as well as a
heavy oycrcoat for sea voyages. A pocket
filter and an alcohol stove are among the
requisites, and in this country l boil all my
water before drinking it. | have also n COM
plete photographing apparatus, and l will
illustrate some of my future letters with
views taken on the spot, of the stran &c
characters and scenes which are all around
me. / do not as yet find my baggage cum
bersome, and would not dispense with {
single trunk.
SOME LAD TRAVELLERS
are apt to think that they can go around the
world in a black dress and a linen buster,
ami the foreign residents here tell strange
stories Of some characters. One girl from
Boston who came out here to act as a mis-
sionary, and who | am told has done some
very good mission work, too, wept tears o.
sorrow with her friends before she came out
to labor among the heather. She packed
away all her party dresses and left her Jew
elry at nome. She expected TO find none but
the Japanese TO associate with, and she evi
IDENTIFY thought that the Japanese in culture
ranked with the inhabitants of the Congo.
She found at Yokohama, as ! did, som OF
the best dressed women in the world, anj
upon being invited to several of the parties
Of the foreign settlement concluded that hei
best dresses and her finest jewels would be
Of as much use to her here as at home. II 1.
in travelling as at a hotel. The nobby sui
gets the bridal chamber and the rags 60 L
the attic. Letters of Introduction and goot
clothes are more of a necessity here than
anywhere else,
In the meantime Japan gets along WITH les: