The Critic and record., 1891-05-06
For Ladies of to Europe.

In packing your steamer trunk you will
do well if you are an ordinary mortal to
pay no attention to the advice to take a
dress for dinner in the saloon and one
suitable for "evening concerts and enter
tainments.' There are two good reasons
for such omissions. In the first place you
will bevery apt to dine on deck instead of
i'll the saloon, and in the second place, if
you SIT down in your smart toilet with
wind.blown company of females who
have not dared to add to the time of their
tarryipg below minutes enough to cover
the smoothing of their hair or the UNI
winding of their wells, they will look at
you with surprise that will make you
conspicuous in manner comfortable or
uncomfortable. If you like to be the
cynosure of all eyes you will never have
better opportunity, for dinner dress on
shipboaTd, after the first night out, is not
usual.
Mrs Andrew Carnegie is about as good
model in the matter of steamer dress
as the average woman can have to follow
She crossed on the Servia last October
with some four hundred other passengers,
and her shipboard toilet was the simplest
and most sensible that walked the deck
or jumped at sight of porpoises or sketched
icebergs in water colors 1t was plain
frocs of black serge, with a hint of white
AT iIc luINul, anu WIN "A Dlhtk ltlJ nat
and black veil: over this she wore q
black REFER jacket, and below it the per-
petual whirlwinds which play boorish
Jokes in mid.Ocean sometimes exposed
bToadsoled, low-heeled comfortable shoes.
Stateroom arrangements add much to
or take much away from the comfort of
the voyage. II is well to bear i'll mind
that when you want thing you will want
ii in hurry. The stateroom trunk needs
10 no we'd that low
hands upon any article of its contents at
minutes notice. II is good plan to re.
view your packing, so to speak, and make
sure you know Just where you have put
needles and pins and fresh neck ribbons.
a big linen toilet case, with pockets, to
hang against the wall is luxury. When
once you have tried it you will call it a
necessity. 1t should hold all the things
you need in dressing, and if a second wall
case holds your shoes and stockings also
you will regard it with affection. 1t is
sometimes an object at sea TO avoid stoop-
ing. Women who are not good sailors
know why.
BY the way, women seldom are good
sailors, and tight clothing is adduced as a
reason. To loosen the corset or take it off
will often relieve inclpient nausea
Heavier wraps will be needed for twelve
hours before landing than in midOcean,
W hen that rocky bovine heart, the bull
and the COW and the calf, are sighted off
the coast of Ireland, the ships doctor
gives the warning, 'Sec that YOU don't
take cold in the chill breeze off the land
And then with Joy the rugs and the
chair and the steamer cap are consigned
TO storage and in creamy brown tweed,
with little coral pin al her throat, the
sensible woman may go ashore with a
long English waterproof of darker brown
over her arm, and may journey with a
light heart to great, gray London town,
and again TO look on the glitter ofnaughty
Paris Of Boulevard and Champs Elysees
repule, and yet again to Mont Blanc and
the Jnngfrau.