The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

Tnere Is no pleaSanter time IN the year
than the present for the vacation journey
for which so many are now preparing.
And as there are excursions to all parts of
the country, so conducted as to relieve all
of responsibility, even ladies and elderly
people can travel as safely and comfortably
alone as though with party of friends
In preparing for a journey, the wardrobe
is the first consideration, and while eschew-
ing jewelry and display, let me whisper
that it will add much to your comfort and
the kind consideration you will receive by
the way if you have stylish and becom
ing suit.
To our friends our personal wealth is
known, but the passing strangers Judge
only by our looks and actions, and we
should give them our best, remembering
that what is best for one place is not al
ways best for another.
The travelling suit. There is nothing
more economical, stylish and ladylike than
black or London smoke gray alpaca, made
in some simple style or full, kilt-plaited
skirt and directoire redingOte If the I'M
derskirt be of gray or black and white,
with black over garment, the effect will be
quite as good, and perhaps enable you to
use something now in your wardrobe.
This suit may also be used for dressy Occa-
siOns By providing several removable
waist coats, one white, one black, and two
in the colors that best show off your eyes
and complexion. Another fayorite style
for making travelling dress is a perfectly
plain skirt, blouse waist of silk the same
color but different shade, and loose-fit-
ung Jacket OF the same material as the
skirt, lined through with the silk If you
already have good wool gown you can re
model 1t with little trouble. First, read
Just the seams of the waist in accordance
with the prevailing style, let the back
drapery hang full and plain from the belt,
arape the front like a Greek apron. and
add cap, puff, or epaulet to the top of the
sleeve, which must be very tight below tho
elbow. Also make a vest of some soft silk
10 harmonic with the wool goods. Pro
vide long wide sash of the same silk, and
when you wish something more dressy put
the skirt on over the basque and drape the
sash to suit your form or fancy Remov-
able vests are easily made For plain
one, single width of silk will be sufficient,
which must have a high, well fitting collar
fastened at the back. Slope the vest in
front to fit the neck and shir, plat or
smock. A full vest has better effect
full, at least, over the bust; and pretty
finish is to gather it at the bottom of the
waist, the remaining length being carried
10 the right hip and finished with fringe or
lace. A dress for travelling must tit well,
but not too snugly, and not be so tight
around the arms as to bind or hinder re
mOval, as a sleeping car is not the most
comfortable of places to dress or undress
II the gloves do not match the suit, they
must be gray or black, in silk, Isle thread
or kid; but do not, l beg of you. make the
mistake of wearing mits. They do very
yxyal1 ir, tbnis- nl1pn Int CHI
be seen on the stage, steamboat or cars.
Hosiery should match the dress or be of
plain black. For heaC-cOVering, choose a |
soft-crowned hat matching your suit in
color, and trimmed simply with a silk cord
or band of ribbon. Or, if you do not like
this, get straw bonnet of the new Paris
shape which projects over the eyes and has
brim turned in d rapidly ascending curve
towards the back. The close capotc is still !
in style and you will also want long.
very long gauze vail. Your travelling |
Jacket may be jaunty with loose fronts or a |
Conemara cloak of English serge or cheviot |
If the latter, you will need no other water |
proof, but must take heavy shawl in your
strap as there are times even in the hottest |
weather when it will be needed. The petit |
coat must be of some dark color or black, |
wooden If possible. and 1t is well to have |
pair of gauze under-drawers in the hand |
satchel, as they are warmer and much more |
convenient than the short underskirt which |
invariably lunches and is never in the |
place to do the most good. If you are to |
travel during the night, use instead of a |
night-gcWn, pretty, simple cotton or wool |
wrapper in which you will, at any moment, |
be presentable removing only your collar, |
corsets and shoes, for which substitute |
pair of knit slippers. Nowhere else is the |
depravity of inanimate things better illus
trated than in q sleeping car, and the mar
Il
pear would puzzle even prestdigitatOr.
Knowing this, the experienced traveller
provides herself with a lot of good sized |
safety pins, and with these fastens her
loose clothing to the curtains. She also
goes prepared with light hood for night |
wear, or, what is better, cape with an at
tached hood, which latter draws up over
the head with elastic, thus efTectually
screening one from unavoidable draughts
This gives incalculable comfort in cold |
weather, and is necessary at all times if
one is not perfectly robust. You will in
hale much less dust if you will have the
bed made with the head towards the engine,
a position trifle more dangerous than the
reverse, but in case of accident one is al
most sure to be killed anyway, so it is as
well to be comfortable. Pack your new
shoes in the trunk, but put on your feet a
pair of soft, loose, common sense boots that
have become well-fitted, and do not forget
to put pair of light rubbers in the hand
bag.
A well-flled hamper must be by no means
forgotten, even though the journey be a
short one, as the stomach will be less liable
TO arrangements if there is no change in
the food, and even on short trips there are
likely to be accidents which will render
lunch desirable if not necessary. Last
winter, a couple of ladies started to visit
friends in the northern part of the state,
and expecting to reach their destination in
time for O'Clock dinner, took nothing in
the way Of lunch. A northwest storm
came up very unexpectedly, the train
moved more and more slowly. and was
finally stalled at night in a dreary waste of
snow Hungry, faint and cross these ladies
reached their friends house at 10 o'clock
the next morning, having had no food for
twenty-four hours. Another party bound
for Florida, dislil1ing the burden of lunch
basket, decided to depend upon the train
boy, or lunch counters at stations. They
were bitterly disappointed in regard to
food, it being poor, unsuitable and Insult
cient in quantity. In short they really
suffered from hunger. and were i'll with
stomach and bowel difficulties long before