The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-31
NOTES OF TRAVEL.
Some Humorous Incidents Recounted by
-, Tourists Home from
Abroad :''''

They were group of: bright girls Just
returned. from Europe, and they were
comparing pptes and telling of their adj:
ventures.
The school teachers turn had come,
says a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle,
and she told Of puritanic little New
England damsel Of her party who had
never been abroad before. When OH
landing the custom house inspector in
Quired if she had any iinnors in her bag
gage she said ''What?" in a puzzled way.
The question was repeated, and received
'Have you any cigars?'
"What do you take me forY' came the
indignant reply, from outraged maiden
woman?"
''done' Italy took the floor. "Of all dead
slow places,' she said, ''Italy walks of
with the blue ribbon. If you go in a
hotel, elevator, or lift as they call them,
you'll neatly die of Impotence unless
you've taken your knitting along or have
book to read. 1t takes them half a
day to get up three stories, and then
very often there is a sign conspicuously
displayed which reads: please do moi
. request the lift to take you down. You
can ring till doomsday, but the lift won't
come up for you. The proprietors evil
IDENTIFY think it is too much to ask of a
lift that it should lift one down as we'll
as up. At one hotel where we stopped
the elevator was laying off, so to speak.
in state of innOcuOus desuetude, and Oh
the door was the comforting bit of in.
formation in English: The hydraulic lift
is out of the water
Snow. girls, just listen to my story OF
Greece" said the kindergarten teacher.
"Of course, it ought to be something
poetical of dramatic, with glowing de.
scriptions of scenery thrown in, but it
isn't at all. I shall never think of the
place without this ridiculous story com
ing to mind. To make it all the NOR,
memorable, it happened just as we were
taking our departure from Athens for
Italy, and naturally we were filed with
all sorts Of emotions and unspeakable
lessen our baggage, had decided to leave
our wornout clothes that we didn't need
at the hotel. If it hadn't been for the
uncomfortable honesty of the servants
we should never have thought Of them
again. Our party was all lined up il,
carriages in front Of the hotel and were
just on the point of starting, when we
rushing out Of the hotel, wildly. waving
in his hands a torn and shabby silk
waist. -.
Oh one of the girls cried out, it's
that dreadful old silk waist meant to
leave behind She had hardly gotten
the words out of her mouth before a Sec
ond porter appeared waving a jacket in
one hand and a petticoat in the other.
I don't want Them shouted the embar-
raised owner of the garments Il told
the maid she might. have them : OF
course, the men couldn't understand Eng
fish and insisted on parading the shabby
old clothes up and down before the car
riages, trying to find their owners. The
worst was yet to come, though, for at
this juncture third man came on the
scene, holding up to public view pair Of
most disreputable corsets, rusty and be-
draggled. No one of the party would ac-
knowledge them, but I've always sus-
pected certain girl, who was over-earn-
est in urging the coachman to drive on.
ANYWAY, We got off in hurry before
there was chance for any more dam
aging revelations. "-Philadelphia Even
ing Telegraph.