Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-11
CONDENSED HER OUTING.
Plucky stenographer's Pilgrimage to Lon
don and Paris In Three Weeks Time.

Plucky stenographer's Pilgrimage to Lon
don and Paris In Three Weeks Time.
1t takes a New York girl to overcome
obstacles, says Helen Combe5 in Kate
Fields Washington One Of them who
is earning her living as a stenographer
has been for a long time saving her
spare money with a view 90 visiting
Europe this year. She had enough
when vacation time came 70 carry out
her cherished project, but, alas, she
found that not a day over three weeks
leave of absence would be granted her
She did not dare throw up her position,
as she knew from experience that good
places are hard to get.
Right here is where most girls would
have given in to the force of circum-
stances and spent the vacation in
America, Not so the plucky little
stenographer. She left the Office a
Saturday morning in August, went on
board one of the fast steamers and in
exactly a week landed in Liverpool
Taking night train she arrived IL
London bright and early Sunday
morning and proceeded 10 do the
LDNus one saw Allt low CAf W ANL-
minister, st. Paul's, houses of parlia-
ment, the national gallery and a host
Of other things before leaving on Mon
day night TO make her way Parisward.
Crossing on the night boat she ar
rived in Paris Tuesday and spent two
clear days sightseeing Notre Dame,
Versailles, Pere la Chaise, the Louvre,
the morgue, the Champs Elysees, an
evening at the grand opera and
numerous other diversions occupied to
the full the time she spent in Paris.
Leaving there in time TO reach Dieppe
Thursday night she recrossed the
channel, arrived in London Friday,
took the train for Liverpool and had
several hours there before boarding
the Lucania on its maiden westward
trip She arrived in New York Satur-
day, September Q, and after spending
Sunday quietly turned up as bright as
a button at business Monday morning.
The ambitious young woman did not
boast Of her flying trip, but somehow
the facts leaked out on the steamer
aud were considered too good to keep.
Hotel Guests Who Wni Not Register.
The average guest at a frst-class ho-
tel puts his fist on the register and
takes what the lord Of the rooms gives
him meekly and uncomplainingly
There are rooms and rooms, says the
Washington Post, just as there are
hotels and hotels; and when the hotels
are crowded it takes an experienced
and determined man 20 get the best
or woman. No hotel clerk has ever
vet stood up before the onslaught of a
lovely female bent on having a front
room lighted on two sides and not
higher than the third story. But there
is another class of the dwellers In tents
the men who never register. Every
hotel has them. and Washington hotels
more than any other city. Here it
means the game of politics. The man
who wants an Office, and is afraid his
rivals are going toputup combinations
against him, will slip into his hotel
and tell the clerk that he does not
want 20 be seen or put on the book,
and the clerk tells him that it is all
right. In some cities such actions
would be rightly regarded as suspi-
cious, but not in Washington. The
leading hotels will average two day
during the first year of new admins.
tration; after that they drop off to two
a week, but il is popularity of Wash
lngton hotelA .