The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-08
SAILING AND SUFFERING.
One Hundred Thousand Americans
Are Bound for Europe
This Summer.
How to Dress for an Ocean Voy-
age and European
Travelling.
Hints for Those Who DO Not Care for the
Grand Tour-WOmen and
Their Babies.

Hints for Those Who DO NOT CAf0 1Or inc
Grand Tour-Women and
Their Babies.
A good number of MS are or shortly will
be sailing and suffering on the deep blue
sea, for 100000 Americans are bound to
Europe this season. It is an excellent thing
for us, in my humble opinion, for in spite
of the bigness of great, gray London town
and the glitter of naughty Paris, OF boule-
ward and Champs Elysees repute most of.u
come home again more than content with
wonderful, yeasty America, with its uprlRns
and downright solution of mans equahty
with man-it is still left for new republic
to assert woman's equality with woman-its
marvellous possibilities for earning sonsy
livelihood, and it's thousand and one adj
mirabilities which need not here be enum-
Grated, not least among which 10 the evo-
luton of race of women travellers, some
few of whom have sane ideas on the sub
ject of travelling gowns.
You NAV lie rolled up like cocoon in a
steamers chair, you may boat among the
Hebrides from Oban to Skye you may climb
Helvellyn or journey about muleback IN
sereuity if first you 90 to q tailor or GOOD
dressmaker and have constructed TOR your
self staunch little frock of stout wool. II
last February you foresaw your summer out
ing and had such dress built then, you are
now so much the happier, for the new has
been worn off it, and you have lost that nrst
reverential regard for it which would have
caused you to grieve il an unexpected iurcn
Of the vessel had sent rill of your neigh
boris soup trickling over your draperles A
February gown is the more suitable, !et me
hint, because it was presumably lifted over
your white fannels.
Ii unluckily gown for voyaging Is to be
constructed between the resolve and the
start, remember that a mixed gray serge
forgives and forgets small insults most
readily. It may have white neck piece, II
you like, of sprieged percale to button II
block revers; but it must be design Sc
verely simple, for the deck of an ocean
steamer is the scene of perpetual whirl-
winds which play boorish Jokes on draper
les, and it mustn't be OF the kind over
which YOU mediate half an hour before de-
or on, because trick boaices whose dear,
dainty, deceptive folds are held in place by
many hooks and eyes cause the heart of the
woman who is struggling despairinRly with
her first state-room toilet to sink down and
down. and finally to ooze out-don't tell
1870
toes. It must be comfortably pocketed.
Women who have made more than one
VOYAGE sometimes have their petticoats-
these of course are colored-bound IN with
their dress skirts for ease in donninR; If
they don't wear, that is, those modern things
that are bifurcated.
The number of wraps one needs on ship
board varies greatly with the individual,
but is, Judging from personal experience,
commonly exaggerated. True the stormy
Atlantic is at all seasons ana IN us m,loest
moods remarkably open to the wind, but a
woman who proteota herself with medium
weight flannel underwear, such, for instance,
as she is accustomed to use on sunny day
in early December, will be apt to enjoy q
deck promenade in June or July in not
a deer-stalker's cap or a soft felt hat
on her head, and her understanding Sc
cured by means of low-heeled, per-
fectly fitting gaiter shoes. For the proper
enjoyment of steamer chair in sheltered
corner with one of w. Clark Russell's tales
of shipwreck to while away the time, a car
rage robe or big shawl is essential, and, of
course, a woman whose health is not vigor-
GUS, cannot supply herself with too many
coverings.
canny Scotchwoman who crosses the
Atlantic ferry every summer tells me her
greatest comfort when the screw is kicking
out of water and old ocean is tossing her as
a nurse losses baby, now you go up, up,
up, and now you go down, down, downy."
are her flannel wrapper in which she can
sleep if need be and which she can wear to
her sea bath in the morning, and lace
scarf which she throws over her head when
she removes her hat in the dining saloon, it
not being Convenient" to give much atten-
ton to her hair.
Appropriate dress on shipboard was ex-
empli6ed by Mrs. Kendall when she sailed
away bearing so many American hearts and
dollars-those she will bring back in Octo-
Der, but these she will retain-in a tailor
dress of creamy brown tweed, fastened at
the throat by little coral pin. Over her
shoulders she had a 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 low
cut shoes-some people have theory it
makes them seasick to stoop to use boot
buttoner-with overgaiters.
Do these paragraphs go into details un-
necessarily, I have seen a woman bring q
fodder on shipboard in a low-necked and
short-sleeved frock. The woman came
from Texas and the change of climate was
SO violent that it did not seem to be her
fault the little girl lived to land at Liver
pool.
And when in ''furrin' parts'' what to
wear? In a general way one has to be
clothed more warmly for summer travel on
the other side than here. 1t made a curious
impression on me, if may be allowed to
introduce apersonal "reminiscences. on my
first voyage when the ships doctor said to
me as we sighted Ireland: Have your
warmer wraps ready; 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 morn
lngs in the English Lake district two years
ago in September as I usually wear
in New York on mild day in midwinter.
That season was exceptional, but on the
tight little isle a woman walking the streets
in white lawn frock with sealskin cape
over her shoulders is not an uncommon
spectacle, and it's we'll to be on terms of
intimate acquaintance with ones hannels.
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 and 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 ship again. It is easily enough man
aged if you visit Paris late in your tour and
stop day or two in London on your re-
turn to England. This simplifies the
question of luggage and even makes posi-
BILE the appearance once in q decade, of the
rare woman--the mans ideal of q traveller
who can go abroad for three months va
cation, carrying her whole outfit in a hand
satchel.