Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
Resting at the Gates OF switzer'
land After Her Tour of Italy.
Many Interesting Points for the benehl
of Those Contemplating q
Foreign Trip.
Mothers and Daughters Travelling Aoroau "A
Mistaken Idea Concerning CroWus
Travelling Together.



the gates of Switzerland and looking
back over our Italian travel, it occurs 10
me that some Of our experience may
be of practical help to some one COLI
templating like trip. There are many
little things which we should have oeen
glad to learn otherwise than by exper-
ience. Baedecker is great ana lnVal-
liable help, but there are SO many htt'e
points of experience that cannot De put
In a guide book, but can only be told Dy
one traveller to another.
TWO LADIES ALONE,
neither of us with any overplus OF sen
| confidence and knowing not a woro Vi
allan, we felt considerable deilcacy
about infringing on Italian borders. Ii 10
| easy enough to plan trip on the map
| but wheL it comes to actually buying a
ticket for foreign land, the thought
! comes. EHeavens! and what are two
lone women TO do with themselves,
where nobody can understand Woru
! they sav!'' We have since laughed at
that timidlty, for everything has proved
to he so easy. 1t is necessary TO speak
and understand some French, so stay
| in Paris is a very good preparation for
| an lIHllhu ltlp, OuC aicO hSNNS
| the Italian numerals thoroughly; beyond
that the only words absolutely necessary
are. s.ouauto costa,' how much, and
"troppocaro, - too dear.
| mother and daughter can 90 any
where and do anything. After observing
many tourists, we have concluded thut
the mother and daughter make the
incest possible combination for travelling,
and we have met many other mothers
and daughters who have agreed with US.
Europe is full of mothers and daughters
travelling together. 1t is especially NICE
for them in Italy, for the Italians, what
ever faults they have, are
| KIND TO LADIES.
/ think il mistake to suppose that
large party make the expenses less. L
have been told by several that 1t was
more expensive for party of four TO
travel together than for two, because,
not all being agreed as to just what ex-
curnons they wished to take, some would
necessarily be drawn into expenses that
thew would not otherwise have incurred.
TO be harmonious travelling companions
more things than congeniality OF tastes
and tsmperaments are necessary; there
must be q congeniality of purses ana
corresponding realization of endurance
| in sight seeing. The mother ana
daughter have no appearances TO keep
M. to each other or anybody else; they
economist as they please, and spend as
| thew please, and are perfectly free. But
| everybody cannot be mothers and
daughters; l only want to emphasize the
fact that two ladies can travel alone III
Italy most comfortably and conven-
: iently.
, LIMITED BAGGAGE.
II has saved us both trouble and ex-
pense to have no trunks. One is allowed
to take large portmanteaux into the
| train aud there are always porters or
3 hand 10 handle your baggage; then or
arrival there is no waiting around 1ol
3 | trunks to be found and identified. 1ot
a | can get into a cab and drive Off. One
buys a great manv things, of course, bu
) accommodations of this kind can be packec
t in a box or trunk bought wherever yol
r are, and given in charge OF one OF INT
r tourist officers, Gaze's or Cooks, Wh'
a will send it by slow freight to meet yol
at some prospective point OF travel
Really. one needs so few things! Twt
9 WOODEN dresses, soft silk that will no
g muss in packing, an India silk, simple
j white dress for evening. silk blouse,
t sailor hat little bonnet or turoan,
Jacket. a shawl and a macintosh Cor 1
., | WATERPROOF ClOtu ihStSoo W h'
= shawl and mackintosh). These make al
outfit for several months, as we haV
Q proved. Tourists are not expected t
d dress much; they only want few, ap
propriate things. The stylish touris
4 costume now with a PLAIN skirt and
very cutaway jacket worn over vest, i
most sensible; for, by changing the vest
one can appear gay or sober, wlntry
spriug like. When
1--WE sailed away for year and day.
= from America, we had great pride in tn
IL appearance of our baggage, and eye
d our new, Observation-Disclosures
J, STRIPED FRENCH TRUNKS
'r with great satisfaction, but when we sa'
80 very nice looking people in Englan
travelling with old tin boxes and uncov
cred basket boxes we began to think les
about it. and now these aristocratio
striped trunks are shut up in Paris an
we are travelling with the lightest, cheap
est yalises we could find. Nice leathe
na yalises are too heavy, and the canvs
things they make over here are COL
venient iu shape, weigh scarcely any
,o thing and cost only from five to tie
10 francs. The telescope bag we brouRt
81 from home is an Mechanically cor
Is yenient article-it is impossible to reac
| -
=, more thing. We can tell an America
~ over here before we see him-by his tell
l. scope bag.
ce Now about shopping in Italy. EveI
G. place has attractive and characterize
things, but, not knowing what is aheat
one ia uncertain whether to buy II
e souvenirs for Uncle Ned and Aunt ka
e and Bessie and Jamie and all the rest
an this place or wait till further on in one
travels. Now for pretty and inexpeI
lie slve jewelry
FLORENCE IS THE PLACE
Little pins, rings, etc. are much mo
artistic and much cheaper there, al
I'VE you will not find the same things quite
to- pretty elsewhere. Florence Is chez
IT. place for everything. Some OF o
wv friends bought beautiful light surahs al
IN foulards there for three francs, that
sixty cents yard, and had them pretti
made, with Innings, etc., furnished, I
Sc. A Florentine lady would not p
more than So for having dress mad
yhare are many Dretty little things to