The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-15
HINTS ON TRAVEL.
Something That May Be of Value
to Those Who Go Abroad.

Nhf3 should be worn? In a general
sMM.!N way one has to be clothed more
warmly tor summer travel on the other
side than here. 1t made curious impress
sion on me, if l may introduce per-
sonal Renaissance, on my first voyage when
the ships doctor said to me as we sighted
Ireland: Have your warmer wraps handy;
people are apt to take cold In the chill
breeze off the land" To be personal again,
| found it necessary to put on as heavy
clothing nights and mornings in the English
lake district, two years ago in September,
as l am accustomed to wearing in New
York ON mild day in midwinter. That
season was exceptional, but on the tight
little isle woman walking the streets in a
white lawn frock with sealskin cape over
her shoulders is not an uncommon specta-
Gle, and it's well to be on terms of intimate
acquaintance with ones fannels.
When the summer traveller crosses the
channel she will find Paris about as hot as
New York at the same time of year. A
woman whom nobody accuses Of not know
ing how to dress herself is going to spend
fortnight at little French watering place
in very quiet way in July. She says she
is going to take one cloth frock aud three
cotton ones and buy dinner gown in Paris
to fetch home.
The proper way to shop is to refrain if
possible altogether until you are ready to
take snip again. 1t is easily enough man
aged if you visit Paris late in your tour and
! stop day or two in London on your return
to England. This smplifies the question OF
luggage and even makes possible the APP
pearance, once in decade, OF the rare
| WOman--the mans ideal of a traveler-who
| can go abroad for three months vacation
| carrying her whole outfit in hand-satchel.
| Such white crow is bird of no interest
! to the society woman who crosses Tor the
| London season, or next winter eXpectant
| debutante, who is ranSackiug continent
for SIC, 900 worth of wardrobe war material.
| but the woman who is really going to Eu-
| rope Tor season of travel may listen for
minute to the plans of small person whose
| husband has agreed TO give the summer to
| her pleasure on condition that she does not
make his life q burden IN countries where
| trunk is an igDis fatuus, leading the man
| who cannot get check for it a dance OF
| which he soon wearies.
| This small person will sail next month
| with one frock, small Scotch check,
smartly but simply made, with view to
| three months constant wear; she will leave
| her rugs and her chair and her steamer cap
in Liverpool, the steamship company stor-
ing them for her, and, assuming little
| English travelling hat she will set out
strange countries for to see." armed with
waterproof, a silk blouse to replace her
| heavy bodice when the air Is Sultry, toilet
articles, pocket handkerchiefs and liner
| not much, for she knows she can get wash
| ing done at twenty-four hours notice any
| where-and two or three pretty French ties
with which to make killing toilets for hotel
| dinner tables. All these will so into a
yaise and leave room for her husbands be-
| longings. Two travellers with one port
manteau aud Photographic cameral
''And if the fancy seize you to be pre-
sented to the Queen"
"Pll buy my court gown for the occasion.
Isn't it quite the proper thing to come home
with imported costumes ?"
And all your little purchases, your
| souvenirs?"
"Pll mail them to Paris or London, and
at the last minute Pll buy trunk, two
trunks If necessary, to bring them home.
There's no objection to trunks galore when
one has finished travelin g.
The woman who really wishes to see
EuroI on little money shouldn't be
ashamed to travel third class when neces-
| sary. In Great Britain, at least, she will
find it just as easy to go about alone as
here. l have met more honest courtesy as
| a stranger on a wet night in Birmingham
than | should expect arriving unattended at
m average American railway station. In
London one may be quite Independent. In
Paris it isn't wise to do much of anything
unless you have seen a French woman do ii
before you. A woman in New York re-
latps that she has had half the audience in
a French theater laugh and shout at her be-
cause between the acts she rose and stood
at the back Of her box facing the wall to
rest her eyes.
There are a great many nice things to do
when abroad that are little outside the
common run. tits pleasant, for instance,
for a couple to hire a tandem tricycle-peo-
pie make regular business OF letting them
and spend q week or fortnight rolling b e.
tween the bedgerows, seeing green Eng land
at close view. 1t is pleasant, also, to take
a small boat on the Thames, perhaps as fal
up as Oxford, and row and float with the
current four or five days, week, or as long
as the charm of the river life, with its
ilotillas Of households and its fleets Of punt.
ers, fasclnates you. There are regular boat
expresses to take your craft back to its
owner. There are all sorts of things that
are pleasant if you are of rowing turn and
a bit unconventional, but the thing that is
decidedly unpleasant for your neighbors is
for you to come home again and declare
that your own country is unfit to live in.
Few women, however, are affected this way.
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