The times., 1897-06-13
TRAVELLING FOR WOMEN.
The Many Discomforts They Meet
With in Sleeping Cars.

The Many Discomforts They Meet
With in Sleeping Cars.
She had Just returned fIom the far West
and said She was tired.
"You shouldn't mind q few thousand
miles Of travel in these days of luxurious
railroad accommodation" said he, Child
ingly.
Its ali very well for a man 10 Say
that she retorted but if you were
woman, you'd know that these accom-
modations aren't all they might be
thought that America was supposed to
De q country where the comfort of women
is considered first, last and between times
but after couple of nights on Pullman
sleeper and two on. Wagner car I've
changed my mind"
Have you come back with a sleeping
car story? They're always funny" said
the man, settling himself in his chair as
if prepared to enjoy a good thing
''No, have only a passengers com
plant. Thanks to good digestion and
an easy conscience, ] can sleep anywhere
when the time for slumber rolls around,
but l can't get dressed without a basis
for operations that is hig en- ough to stand
on.
''Win you please tell me why" she went
on, when sleeping car is built COM
modious apartment is set aside at one end
of the car for men, while a little two by
four corner at the other end is all that is
allotted women for a toilet-room? The
men nearly always have plenty of space
In which to move about and four orfiv good
sized wash basins with a proportionateiy
generous share of other necessary things.
But in the women's toilet-room there are. at
the most, two washstands and two mirrors.
and often there is but one of a kind.
1T is all one woman with long hair and
a flaring skirt can do to dress in such n
cubbyhole, but get three women, or even
two in the place, and it is comparable
only to the black hole of Calcutta. Every
time the long-haired woman draws a comb
through her tresses she runs the risk OF
breaking the mirror and incidentally punch
ing out the eyes of the other occupants.
Usually she gives up, and flattens herself
meekly against the wall, saying: ''I'il
wait until you are through
There was bride in my car the other
day. She wanted to look beautiful, of
course, and so she was anxious to have
| her hair curled properly. 1t wasn't the kind
| of hair that does its own crimping. and ii
| had flattened out sadly in the night. She
| had little alcohol lamp with her and was
| attempting to heat pair of tongs over its
blue flame. The poor girl was just on the
| point of tears when / appeared She had
| been there a long time, but had been so
| bumped and pushed and crowded by other
1 women thatshe hadu' made much progress
| in her dressing. She had scorched her
| hair and burnt her forhead, and draft
from the opening door had put out her
| alcohol flame. %, dearl must get some
more matches fron--my husband she
| said, and knew from her blush and from
| the way the words my husband stuck in
/ her throat that it was probably the first
| time she had ever uttered them to q
| stranger.
ut isn't so bad in the winter, but In
| the summer time, when 1t Is difficult to
keep cool and clean under the best con-
ditions, women positively suffer when
| travelling.
1.-The first thing woman does on en-
tering a sleeper is to count the number