The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-13
WOMEN WHO TRAVEL.
One Of the First Things to Learn IL
What They Can Do Without.


Detroit Free Press.
az am surprised when 1 see how few
women there are who know how TO travel
comfortably in this era of modern inn
when a complete costume can be bought
at every stopping place, and there is no
necessity of being hampered with trunks.
Yet only week ago l met a well-dressed
woman at the Columbian fair who was
wildly lamenting the fact that ell the COM
fort of her visit was spoiled because she
had lost her trunk. But how do you travel
with trunk, / asked.
How could / travel without one?'
by little management and the lady
related Mrs. General Logan's experience in
going abroad with satchel and being we'll
dressed elsewhere. ANY satchel will hold
the second waist for neat travelling dress, :"
Ing, and several pairs of gloves. Gossamer
underwear takes up very little space, and
can be lanndried in hand basin. one
handsome black hat, or bonnet, will do for
good form 10 travel with many dresses, or
make frequent changes / recall summer
when met the family of General Sherman
at different hotels through the country, and
learned to know their simple costumes
by heart, they were so few and convenient.
because they would not burden themselves
with frequent changes on their summer
outings. The first trip Mrs. Elizabeth Gus
ter took abroad. she carried her wardrobe
in hand satchel in soldierly style. The
most elegant women at hotels are those
who wear a dark travelling gown or outing
costume into the dining hall, and leave the
elaborate morning or evening toilet to the
little country bride who has never Travelled.
Men often wear one suit of clothes I'M
til it is shabby, and it is a standing joke
lar box and a tooth brush. The truth is,
the full-hedged manly man has too much
gooc sense to waste his time and money
on an accumulation of clothes. He leaves
that to the gilded youth whose parents
take care of him. Unfortuna teiy when a
woman copies the, good points of a man.
she i5 apt to overdo the matter and swag-
ger about it. A convention of women met
once in this city, and spent much valua-
BILE time discussing the question of pock-
Man.. they argued. can have twenty four
cannot have one Nonsense! That is just
carry a revolver, pipe tobacco box or
matches, for each of which a separate
pocket is necessary She. can fasten a
things in it for her own peculiar needs.
What is sauce for the gander is not al
w WAYS iot sauce for the goose: In the matter
sense by not becoming slaves of fashion,
but making fashion subordinate to them.
1T Is not too late to impress on the mind
of the woman going to the worlds fair that
she does not need to cucumber herself with
clothes. There are tons OF unclaimed bag
gage in different baggage rooms in Chicago
which were left until the owners could To-
cate themselves at hotels or lodging houses,
and then showed under by later arrivals.
Wnen tney are Dug out tnere VIII De
bill for storage.
Another point If you are going to visit
friends you save them a lot of trouble by
leaving your trunk at home. The express
man is sure to bark the shins of every
stair and door post in the house and drag
the stair carpet off in getting it to your
room. Or he will deliver it to the wrong
house and make you lots Of trouble and ex-
pense. Or, If there is fire and you are
that free creature. a baggageless woman,
you can walk out with your Satchel and
cOmfOrta yourself.
There is a large hand satchel that Is
called the telescope because Of its in
Vulnerable possibilities and it's expansion.
1t can be stuffed indefinitely and handled
from cars to omnibuses by youths in
livery, who draw salaries for that purpose
With one OF these a woman ought to be
able to take a trip around the world. A
good motto for the trunk-paclxing woman
is the by which Dean Swift used to
console himself when he looked into the
London shop windows: How many things
are there that / do not want -