The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08


who can 20 abroad for three months
vacation, carrying her whole outfit in a
hand tcte,
Such white crow is bird of no interest
10 the society woman who crosses for the
Lonoon season, or next winters eXpectant
Gehutante, who is ransacking continent
roe $4,000 worth of wardrobe war material
out the woman who is really going to En-
rope for season of travel may listen for a
minute to the plans of a small person whose
husband has agreed to give the summer to
her pleasure on condition that she doesn't
make his life burden in countries where a
trunks an ignis fatuus, leading the man
who can't get check for it 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 storing them for her, and, assum-
ing a little English travelling hat, will set
out 'strange countries for to see, +" armed
with waterproof, Il silk blouse to replace
her heavy bodice when the air is sultry,
toilet articles, pocket handkerchiefs and
linen-not much, for she knows she can get
washing done at twenty four hours notice
anywhere-and two or three pretty French
ties with which to make killing toilets for
hotel dinner tables. All these will go into
valise and leave room for her husband's
belongings. Two travellers with one port
manteau and Photographic camera!
And If the fancy seize you to be pre-
sented to the Queeng'
"rll buy my court gown for the occasion.
Isn't itquite the proper thing to come home
with imported costumes!''
And all your little purchases, your SOU
venirsn'
''pll mail them to Paris or London, and at
tue last minute III buy trunk, two trunks
II necessary, to bring them home. There's
objection to trunks galore when one has
finished travelling"
The woman who really wishes 10 see Eu-
rope on little money shouldn't be ashamed
to travel third class when necessary. In
Great Britain, at least, she will find it just
as easy to go about alone as here. Iehave
met more honest courtesy as a stranger on
wet night in Birmingham than | should
expect arriving unattended at an average
American railway station. In London one
may be quite independent. In Paris it isn't
wise to do much of anything unless you
nave seen French woman do it before
you. a woman in New York relates that
she has had half the audience in a French
theatre laugh and shout at her because be
tween tue acts she rose and stood at the
back of her box facing the wall to rest her
eyes.
There are a great many things to dc
when abroad that are a little outside the
common run. It's pleasant for instance,
for couple to hire a tandem tricycle.
people make regular business of letting
them-and spend a week or fortnight
+ cling between the hedgrows seeking
green England at close view 1t is pleasant,
also, to take small boat on the Thames,
perhaps as far up as Oxford, and row and
float with the current for four or five days,
week, or as long as the charm of the
river life, with its fiotillas of households
lend its fleets of punters, fascinates you.
There are regular boat expresses to take
yeaar craft back TO its owner. There are
al sorts ct, things that are pleasant if you
are of a rowing turn and bit unconven-
tional, but the thing that is decidedly IN
pleasant 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.
THE CHILD UNDER THE NEW REGIME.
Stories about children are usually inter
esting to the young hopefuls' parents only,
but the urchin whose mother is a profes-
sional woman of the now increasin gly
common type evolves new sets of concepts
and sensations. a little boy who is grow
ing up with the notion that grandma is
mamma who has got too old to go to an
Office looked meditatively az his mother
when she returned from a round of bust
ness late for dinner Mamma he said
presently, 81 s'pose you earned more
money than papa did to-day; you stayed
longer; won't you give me check for a
cent? At stage of his mental develop
ment few wee,:s more advanced he pro
nounced with philosophic air the following
Some mammas go to offices and some
manmas put on the dinners" Finding a
rip IN his clothes that needed attention he
presented himself to one parent; then re
cognizing mo sex in labor'' wheeled about
suddenly with Say, papa, it's your
turn to mend me-" There is one word
which this small boy apparently dislikes
as much as the people who insist
always on "saleswoman,'' woman
DOCTOR etc. His mother, who is not, per-
haps, the most conventional of human be-
ings, was putting brushful of fresh paint
where ii might do some good when group
of lads at play in the street were moved to
remark, "Sce that lady painting fencel' ~
They accompanied the remark with gibes
of laughter. THAT'S no lady," retorted
the young man holly, that's my mamma ~
Sooner or later everybody faces life's
problems, and so it happened that when a
relative, who is medical student, was
making for scientific purposes "caicare-
Gus deposit the little boy got the inkling
of the proceedings and asked in curiosity,
"What are you planting.n
''Bones, childr'
''And will people sprout from theml"
PoETEss WHO LIKES HoUsEwoRK
Mrs May Riley Smith, in honor of whose
birthday Sorosis gave an elaborate break
fast last week, should have place in the
chronicle of literary women who do not
disdain homely duties. Mrs. Smiths one
of the most popular members of the famous
woman's club,and some of her tender pa
thetic rhymes have found echoes in many
hearts. She is leaving New York to seek
health for her son in Colorado,
and now that her New York
establishment, only just opened after a
winter abroad, is broken UP, it may be re-
marked that women with no other occupa-
ton than pulling their brains about the
doings of their neighbors have been heard
TO ask with every appearance of ignorance
how it was that, having a husband of the
much envied class who spend a good part
of their time cutting off coupons, and hav-
ing house as beautiful and tastefully fitted
as a generous allotment of those coupons
could furnish, Mrs. Smith kept not a single
servant; the truth being that with family
OF three the poet was enough OF a woman
to prefer the quiet and comfort of an I'M
yelled fireside and to find it pleasure to
minister TO the home dinner table Mrs.
Kate Epson Clarke is another of the writ
ing women, and very bright one. who
can, 1t is said. get up a lunch of an endless
number of courses in her own kitchen 70.
guests whose tastes are critical. A second
woman who has been driven away by the
poor health of her children is Mrs Lizzie
w. Champney, the writer of the "Vassar
girl'' books, who has gone abroad with her
boy, bright lad who has devoted himself
too closely to wood carving and other art