New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-17
HER FIRST TRIP ABROAD.
Peggy Fortifes Herself 5cith Many
Practical Ideas on TraUelLng.

For a year before she started on her travels
abroad Peggy kept a notebook IN which she jotted
down all the information she wanted % keep about
ways 10 go, places 10 visit ana necessary things
take with her To what told she added
the bits she cut from papers and magazines IN
reference 20 little known sights for she made up
her mind at the first that her sightseeing, though
II might include the beaten track should also in
clude the people and their ways OF living Peggy
felt that il she wanted foreign cities small
cost and learn the customs Of the people the first
thing 70 bear IN mind that she live with
the people with Americans in the American
quarter for that simply seeing home in a DIFF
fere1t place Friends had told her that II IS hard
in strange country 10 keep apart from Ameri
cans, because never does home and everything
connected with desirable when one is
where he does not hear his own l&ngu1se spoken
that no honesickness is like that induced by 4
strange tongue everywhere about one. and that the
expense OF living away from American quarters
where Americans seldcr7 come. is about One-haIf
CT what it is in the places that they patronze
with little difference in the amount OF comfort.
In studying the rates and comforts Of the dif-
ferent steamship lines Peggy found that If time
were object her best way OF going was by the
slow freight steamers that take only one class Of
passengers. and are days longer at sea than
the regular passenger steamers She wanted to see
both sides Of steamer life however, so she went
for her first ocean voyage in Of the well known
lines, going out Of season when rates arc less and
comforts greater. Thus she had in crossing a
pleasure with her fellow travellers.
The question of money Peggy knew was always
troublesome IL usually takes a mathematician
10 struggle with exchange rates, and all the DIFF
ferences In currency. So she had all this made
straight for her by turning her money into travel
lers' check books which she found OF the greatest
convenience in the three countries she visited She
became also advocate OF a universal currency,
contending that il would be great convenience
: universal standard OF time
Peggy next consulted travelled friend on what
10 wear and what take her trip.
A week. said her mentor. must be reckoned
upon for the time OF the voyage, which is longer
than the recorded time, far being on the
steamer IS concerned. A trunk Is put in
cabin, and this will contain everything need
ed for the life aboard ship. and may hold much
more. II is quite possible TO go abroad for some
months and take only the steamer trunk, and the
fewer trunks the greater comfort. The last time I
went abroad I took only valise 10 be free from
bother Trunks are not checked in Europe as
here. and are OF much more annoyance. The steam
trunk should be low. but may be any length.
Those in the shops sometimes higher than the
allowance the steamship companies make II you
have learned to pack you can make a long steamer
trunk hold a great amount.
The OF baggage carried by the com
panies in Europe is very small. unless you pay ex-
cess baggage, and there many things you
want to buy that It is maddenng have 10 put
your money into excess baggage charges This Is
Oe N44iHS ~ packing. ran 10 take
only essentials. and the amount saved will be con-
siderable 70 put into mementoes TO bring back, for
there is not only the charge Of the railroad and
steamship companies, but also the fees for having
trunks carried TO your room and everywhere eIso.
DO not wear your travelling sui: on board ship
tor Il would quickly be ruined by the salt air.
ON the contrary. as soon as you leave port and get
out OF the harbOr, remove and hat,
wrap everything In a cover and do not put them on
again until the trip across Is nearly a end.
For ship take old gown. shabby. but
that you willing 70 get spoiled and dis
colored by wind and water. FOUR hat should be a
soft felt or knit wooueu TAM which VIII set down
firmly upon the head and stay there in spite OF
gusts OF wind.
1T must Lot De understood that any old thing
Will shipboard- for there is place where
you need more careful dressing than there. The