The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-08

her friends and enters the sleeping
car. The chief justice of this moving
hostel precedes her with the baggage
a very modest suit case. Upon reach
ing her berth she settles herself next the window
in an easy position and with the novel she
began that morning in the library at her home.
The train may go now two hours later-itd is
immaterial She is quite ready for the trip be
It 500 or 1000 miles
This is the modern traveller. She has learned
just what electric buttons, pillows, tables,
berths pofters, etc, a Pullman car mean.
She has discovered that travelling is a pleasure
If one only knows how-that the least dis
comfort should not properly attach to any rail-
way triple it long short. In fact, she has
found out that all the comforts of home, and
every privilege she enjoyed in her private bou-
doir may be had for the knowledge how to get it
on the sleeper. While the average man gets
all he is entitled to on a railroad trip, with
the fair sex it is mainly among the women who
travel great DEAL either for business or
pleasure, who know how to avail themselves
of the luxury and delightful ease offered, and
for which they have to pay dearly, whether they
use it or not.
When milady travels nowadays she doesn't
carry with her besides her trunk two three
hand satchels, valise, a roll of shawls and
numerous paper bundles tied together with the
tind of string that is always breaking. She
mas learned the finer economics Of travel. She
no longer ages the conductor and makes neces-
sary frequent trips to the porter by reason Of
nervous anxiety for the safety of her baggage.
Her travelling equipment is limited to just what
needs indie
pendent of course, of that luggage to be in use
at her destination. And this necessary equip
ment is limited to very few articles for differ
uses taking up the smallest possible space.
In truth the women travellers of today who
travel with comfort and pleasure do in the
sleeping just they would at their homes.
Not only does it REQUIRE little baggage, but no
specially made garments needed. Those al
ready had for home use serve perfectly well.
suit case Is all one needs to have on the car
its size depending on the length of trip and time
to be away. In this, besides the needed cloth
ing and toilet articles, may be put small silk
satchel, to be used in going to and from the
Mushroom, and, in addition. regular night
clothes, and such wrapper bath robe kimono
may be desired. Quiet coors are usually pre-
ferred in this last item, but the idea to be
ried out is that the garment shall look what it
really is and not like a night gown, II
1T be of some light colored and thin material it
will do very well, provided it have sufficient fig
trimming to distinguish 1t.
This information, of course, applies to the
preparation for and during the night in the
berth. Any old traveller would agree to the wis
dom of the advice, and particularly to that
which follows.
When bedtime comes milady should undress
just as she would at home. This may be done
in the berth by means of the little electric
lights-one at each end-now found on all sleep
ing cars but 1t will prove tiresome perform
ance, rumpling the clothes and making her feel
generally uncomfortable 1t is not very much
better to stand upon the floor of the inside
the curtain. The very proper and most pleasant
way is to the ladies' wash-room, which is
entirely private, where one can disrobe as COM
pletely and with much at home. Then
miady is ready to don her robe kimono and
return to her berth, with her clothing neatly
tucked under her arm When she arises in the
morning it is the process reversed.
1t is the custom of some women to leave their
clothing in the wash-room all night SO that
they may have nothing but the bag of toilet
articles to carry to and from the berth and
wash-room in the morning. To be sure, the
clothes are perfectly safe there, but the idea is
not a very pleasing one. This practice is some
times forbidden by railroad companies.
- The old plan, altogether unheeded by the ex-
perienced ones Of today, to have a special
night gown made of black silk similar ma
terial that would give it the appearance of a
wrapper to be worn in the aisle going to and
from the wash-room There are three reasons
why this practice is now obsolete. These dis
NAL wrapper affairs entirely unnecessary;
they are never comfortable as ones usual
night dress and they are not half as becoming
as a pretty bath robe or klmono
Another old plan was to slip skirt of the
regular travelling dress and throw short house
mattractive than the bogus silk night gown,
and is equally unnecessary. A long linen under