The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-03
ABROAD WITH A SUIT CASE
ALL A FLORIDA WIDOW NEEDED
on AN II WEEKS TRIP.
Had a Lovely Time m No Bother With
In Customs and q suficient Outnt.
Which She Sets Forth In Intimate De-
tail-women With Trunks Enyied Her.

the Customs and o Sumcient Outnt'
Which Sets Forth In Intimate De-
tail-women With Trunks Enyied Her.
Mrs. E. G. McAllister, widow Of a cousin
Of the famous Ward, arrived yesterday
from Naples by the North German Lloyd
steamship Princess Irene with merely q
small suit case, a well fitting and gauzy
dress of blue and a triumphant smile.
Mrs. MoAlister may be forty-ive, but
she does not look near it, and she has the
spirit of a widow in the twenties.' Her
smile of triumph was due to a feat. which
she says has solved for her. at least. the
problem of travelling abroad and back
again. She was willing to tell exactly
how she had managed to spend more
than two months touring Europe solely
with a wardrobe not too big to put in
the small suit case and not too heavy for
a spirited m to carry all by herself.
She learned at Miami, Fla, where she
is in the real estate business as owner and
sp~eculator, that a tourist party would
leave this city on June 20 by the American
liner st. Louis. She got here in four days
with only her little suit case, and then
began to think how she could carry all
she might need on her trip. First she
discarded her white ruf1ed skirt and her
two piece underwear. buying here in
their place a b%rilliantine skirt with double
frills and three union suits. The rest OF
her apparel, as abe gave the inventory
to the reporters, a
3 pairs Of tan hose
pair of tan shoes
brown Eton suit
silk waist to match the above.
lace waist waist for evening WAR.
linen waists
3 pairs of gloves
Q handkerchiefs
umbrella
brown veil
small hat
Mrs. McAllister said she found this out
fit enough for any business woman. When
ever she took a bath, which was fire.
quently, she washed out a union suit
80 she always had two clean ones ready
for use. The handkerchiefs we're OF the
best quality and could stand frequent
washing and there was nobody board
who had any cleaner things thar the
little widow.
At first the other women in the party
were inclined to treat Mrs. MoAllister's
experiment humorously: then they began
to regret they had not tried it them
selves. particularly when they came TO
the frontiers, where customs officers
insisted on looking into trunks carefully
while they were sweltering over their
trunks Mrs. McAllister said, Il just sat
around and smiled at them. 1t was no
trouble to jerk open my little suit case and
show the officers all my belongings in a
iify,"
The party took the usual route of tour
lists, including the Rhine. where the little
widow, who knows all the old plantation
songs of Florida and sings them well,
according to her friends. made the hills
echo with Southern melodies. She was
forced to buy a heavy brown skirt for use
in doing the Alps. and she managed. as
women ha VI been known to do, to n
room for it in the already crowded suit
case. She wore this same skirt in going
up Vesuvius, doing the trick alone save
for two Italian guides whom she called
4her Anarchists.S The hot lava burned
the edges Of her skirt and her shoe soles.
She got another pair of shoes and threw
away her brown skirt. buying the blue
one In which she came to this port. ,
The wisdom Of Mrs. McAllister's method
was illustrated when she landed at the
North German Lloyd pier. in Hoboken
last evening. She just picked up her
suit case and marched off after she had
exhibited its contents to an inspector,
while her friends had to wait half an hour
or more to get their trunks inspected.
Mrs. McAllister said she had had a
perfectly lovely time and that she never
would go abroad again. or anywhere in
fact. with a cumbersome old trunk when
she could get so much in a little suit case.
Also, she did not see why men. whousually
get along With 30 much less than women,
could not go around the world with only
a suit case TO carry all their apparel.
The x ssrnen said they did not think
much Of Mrs. McAllister's scheme.