The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-02-12

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As the travelling Rriton is known
this country by his luggage, so
American woman was once hated
Europe because of her saratoga trr
The world has escaped the gen
adoption Ct the saratoga trunk, bJ
worse thing seems possible, as Bri
lusS@go threatens to become inter
tionaL Even now you may buy in
town all the impedimenta with wi
the travelling Briton cumbers him
and bedevils the rest of mankind. /
Broadway trunkmaker has for SC
years past undertaken to fix the th
dom Of these things upon his fel
country men and women, and IN
travelling Americans. especially
wealthy and fashionable, are to be
ognized by the multiplicity of Bri
impedimenta that they carry to and
in their frequent journeyings betw
the old world and the new. More G
Ous still, those clever and initiative !.
anese have begun TO produce Bri
luggage identical with the original
the minutest details, even down to b
sewed straps ON leather trunks, %
II teaus and the like; but, dr.
enough. the whole outfit is merely a.
per counterfeit of the real thing.
American imitators of things Brit
lacking the fine humor Of the Japan
have made no substitution of light !
terial for heavy, but have taken ON
full burden Of pOnderous British i
boxes, portmanteaus, rugs, bags, Il
alls and even bathtubs. 1t was a traI
ing American who gave to the world
account of refreshing scene on bt
a Mediterranean steamer bound to
gier or some such Mohammedan pol
north Africa. A British passenger
his bathtub had nearly pestered the
out of Il meek, coffee colored Mol
medan, who accepted the Eriton en-
without IL sign of repIoach, but W
in the course of getting the lugt
ashore the preciOu, t.tAtub Iall oil
board and sank lilla lead, the haTmN
follower of the f. bet was seen
pause in his work ;.Gd dance gleef I
upon the deck, exclaiming in triun
"Oh, Mr.. Goddam, MIR. Goddam 70
is since that incident that travE
Americans i'll their aping Of Bri
ways have accepted even the burdel
the bathtub.
4 study of baggage at a steams
wharf or even at a large railway std
in New York is an instructive lesso
to the cosmopolitan character of /
city. There is one article of Bril-
luggage that seldom survives more ii
one journey within the limits of
United States and sometimes get
farther inland than the New York b
at which the traveller makes his
stop. This article. is the little trun
box of japanned tin much used by Z
elers i'll Great Britain. The fiimsy I
hardly survives the first encounter :
the American baggage handler, /
after the first journey of 600 mile.
this country is battered out of all
semblance to its original rectilinear d
1t is an article of luggage not suit
to the exigencies of American travel
A pathetic feature Of the baggag
the railway stations that are doorN
to the west is the immigrants
Sometimes it is a mattress
steerage wrapped about the fe
ings of the new made American.
it is the corded box Of the Irish, l.
or Scotch immigrant. 1t will be rec
how important a preliminary to C.
lotte BrOnte's journeyings out into
/ great world from her Yorkshire I.
was the cording of her box. The CO.
! box is as rare among the luggage Of
American traveller as the old hair tri
though both are occasionally seen.
seaman's locker, rectilinear for q st
stowage and strong against accide
figures in the luggage at steam
wharves. One knows instinctivel3
contents of old clothes, protogra
curios, tobacco and long treasured
ters from home and the array OF
lures from the illustrated papers pa
on the inside of the lid.
The elaborate dressing cases
some Americans and all well tc
Englishmen used to travel with are
ing out of fashion. 1t is almost a u.
sity that the traveller with this pi
piece of luggage take along a valet
the thing weighs like so much lead
is too precious to be trusted to the
der mercies of the baggage departn
The travelling desk also has nearly
appeared, though some ingenious Il
makers now produce trunks that
so as to form desks. The lunc
hamper that used to accompany e
traveller across this continent in
days before dining cars came int
has almost entirely disappeared.
California millionaires of early ii
continental travel carried enormous
richly laden hampers and dispense
ten a princely hospitality to their fe
travellers. The dinner hour ON boa
transcCntinental rain was a picture
incident of travel i'll those days.
travelling Briton i'll Europe still s
times carries his luncheon hamper,
it is often one of the nuisances of Z
. pean travel.
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