The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

A pretty girl wearing a taffeta dust
cloak took a fountain pen from one of
the pockets thereof, tested the nib and
wrote her name on the hotel register
in a firm hand.
Room and bath. please" she said
smilingly mot above the third floor.
Then she walked off leisurely and
gracefully toward the elevator says
the New York Sun, while two boys
wed with each other in their efforts to
carry her bags, umbrellas and golf
sticks.
wouldn't that make you Think
said the old hotel man. twenty-five
years ago a woman never registered
herself, and never came near hotel
desk. She always made her arrange
mnts through a boy or clerk. First
she went to the ladies parlor and
gave her name on a card and he came
back and took her to a room. In one
1 of the old Philadelphia hotels they
had a little panel window opening
from the hotel Office through the wall
of the ladies parlor in order to save
her the trouble of writing her name.
guest always paid her bills by boy or
her maid, but nowadays women think
nothing of coming up to the desk ana
asking for room or a bill as the case
may be. / don't know but what like
the new way best The old plan seemed
to infer that a hotel office was an OBJ
iectionable place for ladies' TO Visit
Then did you observe the style OF
that girls gown? Did you notice how
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and unfurried she appeared? l think
the women travelling nowadays look
prettier than in any other dress"
1t is a fact that the woman traveller
of to-day not only looks trim and neat,
but is we'll able to care for herself and
her luggage. Everything Is done TO
insure her comfort and travelling has
been simplifed to such an extent that
it is no longer the ordeal of days gone
by when women disguised themselves
in brown wells and wore their ugliest
gowns and boots and bonnets to go on
trains and boats.
The feminine traveller OF to-day pre-
sents a fine type of the common sense
woman. She dresses for travel but
does not make herself hideous for the
purpose. The ankle length skirt or the
one just escaping the ground which Is
so generally worn by women this sum
mer is ideal for travelling. In linen or
the lighter cloths 1t is specially adapta-
BILE and for short distances many wo-
men are seen wearing the walking
shirt of white pique or duck. Worn
with a cotton skirt of good cut and a
linen collars or stock that may be re-
placed from the travelling bag with
fresh one toward the journeys end the
girl traveller is nicely equipped for
voyage.
Then for longer journey on which a
more elaborate gown may be desired
for wear in the dining car or saloon OF
q steamer this years summer maiden
has the jaunty dust cloak, than which
nothing was ever devised smarter or
more becoming for woman's wear.
The dust cloaks come in the familiar
English backed model but the newer
ones have the back curved in slightly
at the waist In dark colored taffeta silk
these coats are particularly pretty
They fall to the very hem of the gown,
completely covering 1t and saving it
from dust and at the same time they
are so daintily finished and stitched,
oftentimes with white that they make
a tall slim woman look like picture.
Hats for travel this year give woman
an endless variety to choose from. The
broad Panama alpines wreathed with
scarf of silk or crash are picturesque
and the jaunty little pique hats with
white pompon tilted over the brow are
becoming to nine out of ten women. 1t
is a white year and hats as well as
gloves show the tendency while of
white gowns there is no end.
But gloves have been abandoned this
year, and even in travelling, when the
hands are subject to much danger of
contact with grirny rails and dusty car
chairs, one sees the very familiar fash
ion of the sleeve rolled to the elbow.
Women do not wear many Jewels when
they travel except perhaps scarf pin
or one of the gold seal rings that are
now so fashionable. Nor does woman
pack her gems in her trunks. If she
has a maid they are given into her
charge in a bag; but the experienced
woman traveller puts her smaller gems
into a channels bag which she wears
beneath her bodice suspended about
her neck.
The frivolous little Jeweled purse has
disappeared and also the pocketbook
held alluringly in the hand to attract
the footpad. In place of these the girl
who travels now wears a silver linked
bag firmly fastened TO her belt in
which she carries her ticket and the
necessary cash to see her to her des-
tination.
No longer does the tourist girl load
herself down with luggage. There are
boxes for everything now adays and
the big wicker hamper trunks are capt.
tai places I'm which to dispose of UNI
brellas. golf clubs, hammocks and all
the things necessary TO comfort in the
country or at the seashore. One hand
bag provides for her handkerchief
her brush and comb and the few light
toilet articles necessary. Heavy silver
toilet ware is packed in trunks. The
dressing cases provided with these i'm
plements were always too clumsy and
heavy TO carry around.
Provided with this small grip and
perhaps an umbrella or parasol the up
to-date woman starts on her summer
Jaunt She never fuses over a time
table as her grandmother used to with
out arriving at any definite result. She
asks questions nowadays as she pro-
ceeds and let's the railroad men do the
guessing. Everything. in fact, Is done
TO provide for the comfort of the tour.
list woman. Pullman car porters are
Instructed TO make her their special
charge and railroad conductors and
employees are invariably civil and
helpful TO unescorted women.
AT hotels, too. everything is made
easy for the woman traveller. From
time 10 time there Is comment made
upon the difficulty a woman alone ex-
periences In getting a room at a good
hotel. Women OF modest dress and
demeanor have no trouble In procuring