The Washington bee., 1893-05-27
GIRLS IN SLEEPING CARS

GIRLS IN SLEEPING CARS
From the Ladies' Home Journal.
The wise girl knows that moths
ing is quite SO desirable for wear
in the sleeping car as a wrapper of
dark colored flannel. 1t may be
stated as positive fact that wo-
men who try to make themselves
look coquettish in sleeping car,
and wear elaborate neglige or lace
trimmed wrappers, show extremely
bad taste, writes Ruth Ashmore in
a seasonable article on The Art of
Travelling Easily" in the June
Ladies' Home Journal. Experience
has taught that wrapper of soft
flannel IN stripes of black and blue
made in the simplest fashion, is
most useful. When she is ready to
60 to bed, and the porter arranges
her berth for her. she goes to the
toilet room, taking with her, her
shaIl-strapped package. She re-
moves her shoes and stockings,
puts on the knitted slippers that
she has taken out of her bag, re.
moves any garments which she
pleases, and assuming her wrapper,
which has been folded in her shawl.
strap, repairs to her berth. After
fastening the buttons on the cur
tains. she disposes of her clothing
as best she can, folding each arti-
Gle smoothly and carefully, and
placing her money, watch and tick
cts in her wrapper pocket. And
then she should try to rest the
porter will call her in good season,
aud her ticket will not be asked
for during the night. In her shawl
strap, which shows as its outer
wrapping shawl or travelling rug,
>he may have her own pillow if she
desires it. But this is not a neces-
slty, as the cars are supplied with
lluen that is usually fresh and
clean. In the morning the wise
girl will put on her stockings and
shoes in bed, leaving the lacing or
buttoning of them until later.
Then she will assume her other
garments and repair to the toilet
room, where she should as expedi~
tiously as possible make herself
neat. trim and fresh, that her
friends who are to meet her may
not find her dusty and travel
stained. This she should do quick
", that she should not be classed
among the women who are the
dread OF all considerate women on
parlOr carS-the Women who take
and hold possession Of the toilet
room as if it were a fort.
SHE has A MANS NAME.
John Strange Winter was not
Mrs. Stannard's first nom de
plume, writes Grace Wassell in an
interesting sketch Of the home life
and personality of the author of
"Bootless Baby in the March La~
dies Home Journal. For several
years she signed herself Violet
Wythe, and before she was thirty
had written and published forty
two novelties under that pseudon-
YIN but when "Cavalry Life' was
about to appear her publishers ad-
vlsed masculine nom de plume.
and she accordingly chose John
Strange Winter, the name of one of
her favorIte characters in one of
her own delightful stories. Of
course Mrs. StaDnard will always
be known, particularly by her por-
trayals OF army life, and surely
there were never such army stories
written as her "Garrison Gossip
"Army Society," and "Bootless"
stories. Perhaps her great success
with these stories is in some meas
ure due-apart from the fact that
she once lived in barrack town
to the fact that her father was
originally an army officer, being
one Of the picked officers chosen
from the Royal Artillery: to attend
the Queen at her coronation. He
afterward entered the church. She
has always loved the army and
army life. Even after having
quite a success, it was not
generally known that John Strange
Winter was a woman,
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.