The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08
Sailing, and Suffering on the
Deep Blue Sea.
now TODREss FOB ANoCEANTRIP.
Bohemian Hints for Those Who Do MOI
Care for the Grand Tour
Women's Doings.

sailing and suffering on the deep blue sea,
for 100000 Americans are bound to Europe
this summer 1t is an excellent thing for
us. in my humble opinion, for in spite of
the bigness of the great, gray London town
and the glitter of naughty Paris of Soale-
ward and Champs Elysees repute, most Of
US come home again more than content
With this wonderful, yeasty America, with
its upright and downright solution oi mans
equality with nan-it is Sill left for new
1cpublie TO assert woman's equality with
woman-jts marvellous possibilities for
earning soncy livelihood, and its thou
sand and one admirabilities which need not
here be enumerated. not least among which
is the evolution of a race of women travel
ers, some few of whom have sane ideas on
the subject of travelling gowns.
You may lie rolled up like cocoon in a
steamer chair, you may boat among the
Hebrides from Oban to Skye, you may
climb Helvellyn or journey about mule
back in Switzerland, and all in mental
peace and serenity il FIRST you go to a
have constructed for yourself a
staunch little frock Of stout wool If
last February you foreSaw your summer
outing and had such a dress built then,
you are now SO much the happier, for the
'snew' has been worn off it, and you have
lost that first reverertial regard for it
which would have caused you to grieve If
IN unexpected lurch Of the vessel had sent
riu OF your neighbours soup trickling
over your draperies. A February gown
is the more suitable, let me hint, because
it was presumably fitted over your winter
flarrels.
If unluckily gown for voyaging is to
be constructed between the resolve and the
start, remember that q mixed gray serge
forgives and forgets small results readily.
1t may have white neck piece. if you like,
of sprigged percale to button in, or you
may give it little character with revers;
but 1t must be in design severely simple,
for the deck Of an ocean steamer is the
scene OF perpetual whirwinds which play
boorish jokes on draperies, and it mustn't
rine KluF over w'nidu You rn5dffate
IAN hour before deciding on the easiest
OF putting 1t of or On.t because trick
6dices whose dear, dainty, deceptive
folds are held in place by many hooks and
eyes cause the heart of the woman who is
struggling desparingly with her first state
room toilet to sink down and down, and
finally to ooze out-don't tell me hearts
can't ooze-at the tips of her toes. 1t
must be comfortably pocketed.
Women who have made more than one
voyage sometimes have their petticoats-
these of course are colored-bound n with
their dress skirts for ease in donfing; if
they don't wear, that is, those modern
things that are bifurcated.
The number of wraps one needs o. ship
board varies greatly with the individual,
but is, Judging from personal expd,ience,
commonly exaggerated. True the ltormy
Atlantic is at all seasons and lin its
mldest moods remarkably open to thi wind,
but woman who protects herse1 with
medium weight flannel underwear such.
for instance, as she is accustomed to use
on sunny DAY IN carly December, will be
apt TO enjoy deck promenade in .iIne or
July in a net too heavy ulster of Tough
faced cloth, with deer stalher's G o or a
solt ieit nat on her head, and herllnder-
standing secured by means of lozleeled.
perfectly fitting gaiter shoes. FLOR the
proper employment of steamer ctair in a
Sheltered corner with one of w. CArk Rus
sells tales of shipwreck to while Sway the
time, carriage robe or a big thawl is
essential, and, of course, a wound whose
health is not vigorous. cannot supply her
self with two many coverings.
"A cannY Scotchwoman who crosses the
Atlantic ferry every summer, tells tue her
greatest comforts, when the screw i, kick
ing out OF water and old ocean, isiossing
her as nurse tnsses baby, "now tou go
Ep. up, up, and now you 90 down, idown
downy," are her flannel wrapper inlwhich
she can sleep if need be and which she can
wear to her sea bath in the morning. and a
lace scarf which she throws over her head
when she removes her hat in the dining
saloon, it not being convenient to give
much attention TO her hair.
Appropriate dress on shipboard was ex-
enplified by Mrs. Kendall when she sailed
away bearing so many American hearts
and dollars-those she will bring back in
October, but these she will retain-in a
tailor dress of creamy brown tweed. fas-
tened at the throat by little coral pin.
Over her shoulders she had long cloak of
darker brown. with capuchin hood that
would cover her hair and her soft tweed
cap in time Of need, and on her feet were
lowcut shoes-some people have a theory
II makes them sea-sick to stoop to use a
boot buttoner-with overgaitcrs.
DO these paragraphs go into Details I'M
necessarily | have seen woman bring a
lQddler or shipboard in a low-necked end
sleeved frock- The woman came
Texas, ard the change of climate was
ent that il did not seem to be her
hat the little girl lived to land at
ben in "furrin' parts' what to
general way one has to be
more warmly on the other
side Than here. 1t made a curious impress
sion % me, il j may introduce personal
"Reminiscences, on NJ first voyage when the
ships doctor said to me as we sighted Ire
land: "Have your warmer wraps handy:
people are apt TO take cold in the chill
breeze Of the land.n To be personal again
] found IL necessary to put on as heavy
clothing nights and mornings in the Eng
lish lake district two years ago in Senteln-
Der rs l am accustomed to wearing in
New York on a mild day in mid-winter.
That season was exceptional, but on the
tight little isle a woman walking the
streets in white lawn frock with seal
skin cape over her shoulders is not an nm
common spectacle, and it's well to be ON
terms Of intimate acquaintance with one,s
fiannels
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
q fortnight at a little French watering
place in a very quiet way in July. She
says she is going to take one cloth frock
and three cotton ones, and buy q dinner
gown In Paris to fetch home
The proper way tc shop is to refrain. if
possible, altogether until you are ready to
take ship again. It Is easily enough man
aged If you visit Paris late in your tour
and stop dav or two in London on your