The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-04
WHEN TRAVELLING ALONE.
Advice to Young Ladies Who Gt
Abroad without Male Escorts.

Abroad Without Male
A Chicago newspaper reports that q
remarkable feature of the hotel business
in that city NOW is the large number of
women travelling singly or in groups,
without masculine protectors. Probably
hotel clerks everywhere are noticing the
fact. AS for the reason, which is being
sought, there is no reason why women
should not travel alone i'm this country
if they find it convenient. Our women
are educated to be self-reliant and re-
sourceful, and our men are used to find
ing them SO, and respect them accord
..agly. Ii a woman knows how to travel
and just what to do at a hotel, she will
have no trouble. 1t is only the women
who are ignorant and helpless, n have
every appearance of 1T, that have diff
Guilty. If a woman asks how she can
learn to do the various things necessary
in even a slight amount of travel, the
answer is. watch the man. In the first
place, make up your mind what you are
going to do before you move. In a
crowded railway station if you have
your ticket to buy, a lunch to get, and
want a bunch of flowers and newspaper,
don't get up and wobble about between
the different places for doing those diff
ferent things, but remain in one spot
until You make up your mind exactly
what you are going to do, and then do
it. If you are strolling up and down the
platform waiting for a train, do 1T with
some care that you may not be in the
way of people hurrying. Walk straight
and at am wen pace, and people can cal
culate on your movements. Or if you
prefer to zig-zag, don't be surprised if
you are sometimes roughly jostled.
Women are too apt to look and act in
dignant when, wandering aimlessly, they
are brushed by people who are attend
ing strictly ito business. Men, on the
other hand, are usually very apologize
in such circumstances, for they know
they are to blame.
In the same way, if there is a line
waiting, take your place, like any one,
don't get angry because eight or ten men
seem to object to your crowding IN anead
of them. Always go in at the proper
end of the rails in front of ticket win,
dows. In crossing a street, either go
ahead or stop, and always move as rap
idly as possible. In going to a hotel,
also, look about, and go directly to the
place you think the right one; if you are
WRONG lueFS Is LO didrIl OOle, dInu III
man will him of ridiculing you, as
many will if they see o. taking a step
in one direction and then i'm another.
Know what you want and state it clear
ly, and if don't know things you ought
to know, ask questions of the proper
persons-in a hotel, ask of the clerk, the
bell boys or the elevator boy. 1t is just
as sure as fate that If there is a good
reason for your questions and you ask
in a civil way you will get civil answers,
unless there is something radically
wrong. If clerks of any sort are lmpu-
dent in RETURN for sense and cfvility, go
directly to the employer and state the
case, for it is a grave duty you ought
not to shirk. 1t is almost invariably true
that the employer will be grateful to you
for helping him.
AS to c~onveyances, there. is no more
need of being overcharged by drivers in
the case of women than of men. There
is everywhere a law to which all drivers
must conform, and you have only to in
form yourself of it and show your knowl-
edge to have any cab-driver respect you
as a business-lHke person, whom there is
no use in trying to cheat. There is an
increasingly large number of women
area, and. of course, more. and more
every year have no need of these few
points on method, but there are women
who cannot do even a mornings shop
tween the new and 'told" woman is
that one business-like in everything
and the other makes a nuisance OF her
self the minute she leaves home Be
sensible, quick, but mot "hustling,' and
courteous, and you will have 10 trouble
and your growing self-rcspec. Will create
a corresponding respect from all with
whom you come in contact.-Exchange.