Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-04-02
A GOOD WORD FOR "LA sIFFLKUsE."

GOOD WORD FOR ola SIFFLKUsE."
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner evidently
| holds, with Josiah Aliens wife, that what
is proper for Thomas Jefferson is proper
| for Tirzah Ann. This is what he has to
say about the whistling girl and the old
proverb:
'The whistling girl does not commonly
come to bad end. Quite as often as any
other girl she learns to whistle a cradle
song, low and sweet and charming to the
young voter in the cradle. She is girl of
spirit, of independence, of character, of
dash and flavor, and, as to lips, why you
must have some sort of presentable lips to
whistle, thin ones will not. The whistling
girl does not come to a bad end at all Gf
marriage is still considered a good occupa-
upon her exuberant young life by this ras
cally proverb. Even if she walks the lone
ly road of life she has this advantage, that
she can whistle to keep her courage up"
IN LIGHT MARCHING ORDER.
''She went to Europe in four trunks and
came back in eight" is remark of which
the first half, at least, cannot be applied
to DR.. Alice B. Stockham of Chicago, who
sailed recently for six months trip
around the world.
The party which she is to join in Lon
don is made up entirely of ladies. They
will take an overland route to the eastern
seas, and thence through India, China and
Japan, across the Pacific to our western
coast, intending to combine business, re-
search and study with the pleasure of the
grand tour.
Upon her own person and in one small,
square handbag, DR.. Stockham carried her
entire outfit, an outfit carefully selected
with reference to the union of comfort,
convenience and lightness. No fril1s to
furry one, no baggage to bother-this
means solid comfort and freedom for the
traveller, and DIR. Stockham's example is
worthy of imitation by other lady birds of
passage.
Although she would seem to have re-
duced to minimum the amount of cloth
ing with which woman can travel, she
has been quite outdone by an energetic
French woman. Mile. Elsie st. Omer, a
veteran traveller, has accomplished several
exploring tours without any luggage at all;
she merely puts few little things in her
pockets and sallies forth. She has made
a journey around the golbe, penetrated all
pol I'd VI 1uiopC, SoAo ouSl alDCElCd, uds
seen the Japanese, the Cingalese and the
Bedouine in their native haunts; has
climbed the Himalayas and gszed upon
the Great Salt lake. She is now
to make a tour of the world, following a
course south of and parallel with the
far % AZ Is noe :sapheaf society concerning the
life of women and the training of children
in the different countries. She expects to
epend three yaars in this work
And without even hand bag. With on
ly her pockets. What independence, what
superb self-reliance, what supreme indif-
ference to the changeful DEGREES of Fash
ion, above all, what pocketsl Think of
them, ye pocketless women, and ye who
must vie with the professional contortion-
ist to reach the one little pouch which
the dressmaker, under protest, has ingen-
iously concealed in the folds of back
breadth, think of those capacious, those
all-suficient pockets, and wonder and ad-
mire. HLARE.