The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-04
MEN LIKE BAGGAGE.
Luggage Generally Reveals Person
aIity of Its Owner.


aIity of Its Owner.
From the New York Tribune.
There is individuality in baggage. al
most speaking personality. If you
are inclined to gainsay this statement
OF fact, spend an hour at the railroad
station baggage room and be convinced
of your error. There's as much caste
and class distinction among dress suit
cases as there is among the Hindoos:
there's the divisions of nobility, land
ed gentry and laborer among trunks,
and in valises the distinction between
newly rich and always poor is appar-
ent.
Stand beside the baggage car door
and watch them as they come tumbling
out and inspect them more closely
when they are resting at ease on the
baggage truck. Naturally, when en-
during the tender mercieS proVerbial
OF the baggagemen, the baggage is
taken at disadvantage, and it is not
TAR to judge by its appearance in that
tune OF strenuous stress. 1t is when
1t is settled firm on it's legs and with
equilibrium and equanimity restored
that its traits, characteristics and man
ner1sms are best displayed.
Here's a dandy of d dress suit case,
Jaunty, debonair, impudently self-as-
sertiVe and at ease conscious of supe-
r1orlty in being at the top of the heap.
A very Beau Nash of a dress suit case
1t is, of the latest style. manifestly
looking with disdain at the battered
telescope bag beside it. You know
about the sort OF chap that will pre-
sent the brass check and take away
TINS dress suit case. His trousers will
nap around his hips. and his thinness
below his shoulder pads will be plain
~ observable. He Wi have what in
real estate offices is known as an i'm
posing front, light and airy in the top
story. Right you are. There they 60
a swagger in the walk of the man and
the swing of the dress suit case.
Iheres nothing frivolous about that
pig hide valise. 1t looks like leathern
Gibraltar, with its heavy brass de-
lenses. It's stolid, Indifferent, too. You
can see that it takes no notice of it's
helghbors-ls conscious that 1t can
stand and make its way without hint
of weakness. It's heavy, solid, full of
prosperity as Republican admins
tration; has an air of being the sort of
receptacle to which would be instrust-
ed the funds necessary to save bank
from wrecking run. The baggage
men themselves are just a bit awed
by it, and forbear to indulge in the
personalities usually addressed to their
charges. So you are not surprised
when portly, middle-aged man, with
the self-satisfied air of Sir Willough-
by Patterne and the Importance of a
Pickwick grasps its handle with an air
OF majesty and moves away with the
slow Stateliness of a royal counsellor
Disreputable looking, isn't it, yet not
without an air of waggishneSs that
dress suit case, so marred and grooVed
by scratches that it might have been
the first thing to have met the gaze of
a boy with a new knife? 1t bears the
marks of many a pump-it's plainly
to be seen that the baggageman has
no respect for it, for he just threw it
the length of the platform-and thump;
it's vasage gives token of sleeping in
the open in rain and frost, sleet and
snow, and it has evidently served as
a candlestick, for there are blotches
of dirty tallow on it. It's straps and
buckles are clinging to anchorages by
mere threads. Belongs to one of these
street fakrs who travel on foot, rail
or wheel from city to city. pulling
teeth and giving a lecture on the de-
cline and fall of the Roman empire at
the same time, youst think Sure enough,
when you see his bleary eyes, red, rum
tinged nose and dirty celluloid collar
and cuffs you expect to hear him say:
Placing the index finger of the right
hand in immediate juxtapostion to the
offending molar, we describe a small
circle around it with 'Papas Painless
Fuller. Presto! the tooth is out! Then
we apply few drops of Mother Mol
ly's Pain Puzzler' and all is over" The
frayed edges of his trousers show a de-
sire to rise as he walks away, dang