The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17
NIGHTMARE OF PACKING LEAVES
WAISTS OR BRUSHES OR KEYS
SAFELY AT HOME

These are the days when from all
| around there come stories OF accidents
and incidents in packing. Summer is
the time Of all others when the expert
packer is in demand. That he is at
first blessed and later cursed has moth
ing 70 do with this story.
IL was an expert packer who prepared
the baggage for q women VINO has just
gone North. He is her perfectly new
/ husband. this expert packer. and
tame one Of the sort who would eat
out of your hand, so that when there
/ are boxes 70 be prepared for travellers
| in the family his services are grea -ly
[ in demand. and be always responds
/ cheeFfully 20 the call upon him.
On this occasion his wife was sit
/ ting like Marius among the RUM OF
/ Carthage. only her ruins were frockS
and coats and shoes-when enter the
i hero OF the occasion.
What are you doing here?' he de-
/ maEded Of her cOldly.
Il came TO see that you put everything
! in" she replied with spirit.
Wife Had to Leave.
/ oh no. I'm not that kind OF pack
7 err" returned the mac. II may be sew
doing this, for truly lis woman's work;
1 may have light eyebrows and a va
cant look, but / am not such blither-
/ ing idiot as TO allow a woman 20 sit
around and give orders while l pack
/ Put the things you wish to go in this
room and I Will see that they are placed
in the trunk. Then clear out and leave
me 10 my sorrows"
After. This address ,ot1rraTT,r vr-ffa
| did not dare remain, so she went 70 an
other apartment and there set about
manicuring her nails. An hour later
she was appnsed by a loud groan out
/ side her door that the work was over,
| aGd only then did she dare to peep into
| the trunk room.
There silence and cleanliness reigned.
Inc trunks were not only closed but
We're strapped and locked The wAman
SAID 10 herself that she hoped devAutIy
ali would be well, and then worried no
more, but boarded the train the next
/ day when the time came and reached
/ her destination without Incident
/ immediately the trunks arrived she
I mad them opened so that she might get
/ out certain blue frock. Neatly folded
on top Of the first one she foJ,ud her
husband gray coat lie had missed IL
B me night before, and tie who'll house
/ mold had searched for II withcls avan.
/ Now II would have TO be sent to vim by
post.
Riding Boots IN Hat.
/ The next discovery made was that
Z the expert packer had placed a pair Of
riding boots neatly in the crown OF
. very fran lingerie hat. The lingerie hat
/ looked as il it had been in Al Garth
/ quake, and vas rent almost H. twain.
{ a package If face powder the man
/ mad placed IN the crown Of another hat
I II, by some miserable chance. was a
z black hat, and the powder was ground
B through and through 10 so that i'm spots
I the plumes appeared q pale gray and
/ four brushings have failed to restOrA
. them TO their pristine glOomlnesy OF
1 complexion.
All of the gloves which the won n
/ owned she found at the extreme bottJ n
I or one Of the trunks, along with her
I thin frocks AID easily mussed articles
/ ments were on top.
After the woman in the case had wept
a lew tears for her ruined fnery. she
/ sent her husband this telegram. WHO
J told you YOU were good packer2'
] The answer which came back was IA
/ terSe as b. well could be Mother
4 was al IT said, but the bride is still
/ wondering how her husband secured
his little deserved reputation though
. she says she Will admit that he can get
more things into trunk than anyone
( she ever saw.
Had No Brush or Comb.
( Some dear friends OF mine on their
first trip abroad were invited TO lunch
with an acquaintance in New York The
day their boat was to sail They &C
. cepted. fingered long at the table. and
/ consequently arrived at the boat just
as the gangplank was about to be haul
( ed in
Making her way to. her cabin a few
minutes later to repair her toilet, which
had been somewhat disheveled by the
In. .F-H, Oh. Ia
the pier, the heroine of this incident
discovered that she and her betterhalf
had set sail for Europe without either
having in their possession a comb or
brush. She remembered. after some
thought, thai at the hotel she had made
I a hasty visit TO her room 10 put on her
hat had taken her comb and brush Oub
Of her bag 20 give parting touch TO
her tresses. and then had left those i'm
plements. with the military brushes OF
her husband, on the dressing table
1 there.
A wireless message was sent to a
friend asking him to secure the toilet
articles and keep them for the bereft
twain. and later the two descended upon
the barber of the liner and succeeded in
. wrestling from that fuuctionary combs
and brushes that would at least enable
them 10 keep their hair IN order during
the voyage.
Left Waists Behind.
/ knew a young woman Who one year
went to Canada, leaving the waist Or
| every frock she owned behind, but care
fully took the skirts.
She had put al her bO5ices together
in one place. had covered them mad
vertently with an Old sheet, and so had
gone off and left them.
Now. the bodice of a gown is a very
important part. and the young woman
| in question tells a thrilling tale of her
/ efforts in a shopless town to find some
! thing 90 wear until her lost articles
/ could be restored to her by express. for
/ however pretty a skirt may be, ii is OF
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