The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-20

so that their most precious posses
sions will be found in fresh and
unframed condition at the jour
ney's end. AS for men, the prevailing
opinion is that when they pack, they
dump the contents of the chiffonier
into the yawning trunk, drawer after
drawer, and when nothing more can
be crammed down they jump in with
both feet and complete the task, then
bang down the lid and rope it. But no
doubt this is libel on the sex.
Miss Grace Orr Myers in the prima
donna role of Miss Simplicity With
Frank Daniels at the Metropolitan next
week, personally superintends the
packing of her elegant wardrobe, al
though she has a well trained maid to
relieve her of the responsibility.
Says she: 1.-THE woman who packs
her trunk only once or twice year
on the occasion of a trip to the sea-
shore or a visit with some distant rel
atives usually thinks it's easy while
she's doing it, but when she reaches
the other end of her journey and finds
the contents of bottle of toilet water
soaking its way through her clothing,
and the bodice of her best evening
gown crushed all out of shape, she
is rather apt to wish that she had
gone about it with a better idea of
trunk packing as an, exact science.
But with stage women It's very diff
ferent. We practically live in our
trunks for forty weeks out of every
fifty-twO, and one of the first things
we learn is the scientific little trick Of
slowing things away for travel so that
when they are unpacked they are as
good as new. To be sure, it is less of
problem nowadays than it must have
been before the trunkmakers invented
trays and boxes for hats; but all the
trays and boxes in the world won't
keep things from going wrong in the
hands of Mr.. Baggage Smasher if they
are not properly packed.
THE important thing about packing
a skirt is the folding of it. 1t must be
folded lengthwise twice, so that the
width of the skirt will be divided by
three Then it is doubled over from
the top until it is made short enough to
fit into the tray. 1t is very important
first of all, to see that the lining is
Strengthened out so that 1t will receive
the same folds as the goods proper
There is only one way to keep a
bodice from crushing, even when it is
the only one in the tray. This is to
stuff the bosom and the sleeves with
tissue paper until it has something
like the fullness that it has when be-
Ing worn. Neither the sleeves nor the
bodice itself should be folded in any
way. Before being put into the tray
each dress is wrapped in a muslin
cloth, and if one has enough trunks so
that one can afford a separate tray for
each dress, the dress should be pinned
to the muslin cloth, and the cloth In
turn to the cloth straps that buckle
across the tray This is to keep the
dress from tumbling back and forth
from one end of the tray to the other
when the trunk is being handled
There is no royal road to packing
Woman'S hat. Women who want to
carry an assortment of hats should
procure a modern hatbox This has
cloth-covered blocks to go inside
of each hat. the blocks extending
around the inside of the trunk from
the bottom top and sides, bringing the
tops of the hats together in the middle
In such way that they do not touch.
The hats are secured to the blocks
with pins, and large box will accom-
modate twelve hats. Laces, gloves
and handkerchiefs may be dropped
loosely into ones hatbox, and a better
place cannot be found for them. as
they will not wrinkle The best hat
boxes are waterproof, and one need
have no worry about the safety of
their contents.
"One of the most difficult things in
trunk-packing is the safe disposal of
toilet waters, soaps, scents, shoe-dress-
ing and ink. The breaking of bottles