Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
THE LADY IN THE
PULLMAN CAR
II is Very Easy to Pick Her Out In
the Dressing Room. and Observe
Manners of Others.

or NOT q woman was q Iauy ne al
ways asked her to lunch with him
Table manners, he asserted, were one
Of the surest indications Of breeding,
or lack of It personally, ] do not
agree with aim In his contention that
table manners are an unfailing sign
of gentle birtn and loveliness OF
character, for | have Seen harpies
with faultless table nne and /
once saw an Italian countess chase
a few peas around a saucer with her
forefinger until she landed them on
her fork.
A surer test than the luncheon
table. | think. Is the dressing room
of a Pullman car. II a woman has
a yellow streak II is sure to come
out there. She is among strangers
whom she will never see again and
for whose opinion she cares nothing,
and If there is anything piggy in
| her nature ii is going to assert itself.
There are " kinds OF women who
help to make a Pullman car ress-
ing room a nightmare. One type is
| represented by the woman who Is
knowingly selfish, ill-mannered and
indelicate. and the other by the wo-
man who is ignorantly so.
For instance, there is the woman
who leaves the water sloshing in the
wash basis when she has finished
bathing her face, and the soap soak
ing in the bottom. When we We're
urchins, most of us, l fancy, have
| been well "cuffed' for just such tricks
as this, but one grown woman after
another will do this sort OF thing in
a dressing room. In one case because
| because she does not know. But
whatever the reason the task OF
cleansing and wiping the basin Is
more than unpleasant for her sue
cessor.
There's the woman who uses the
drinking glass for her tooth brush
with quite the freedom that she would
were 1t her Individual glass. Instead
of pouring the water upon her brush
| she dips the brush in the water, leay-
ing, when she has finished a rim of
| to~oth,powder or paste around the
| glass for someone else to emove.
Hair may be a woman's GROWING
| glory but the only condition un Ter
which it can be regarded as such Is
when it is attached to her nead. X
there is any thing more nauseating
than loose hair / do not happen 20
think of it, and the woman who
leaves her combings in the public
sneif should be taken by the ear ana
made to dispose of it.
The lady who draped her red-roan
or iron7grey switch over the faucet
OF the ice tank does not appeal TO
one, nor does she who covers the
hooks with her petticoats and mo
nopolizes the one chair with a travel
ing bag the size of a young trunk.
There's the woman who stands n
front of the mirror. arms akimbo,
her numerous toilette articles spread
out on the crowded shelf, arranging
a BAN room couture of braids and
puffs while less sel~f.assertive souls,
with their "str aigh~t-fronts'' in one
hand and their suit cases in the other
wait YEARLY for a chance to jump
in and twist their hair up in a dough
nut.
Cleanliness is Always admirable
but, somehow, it seems less so when
a large and Conscientious lady gets
up at day break to take a sponge
bath in a two by twice dressing room
and prolongs the operation until the
last CAN for breakfast.
There's the woman who uses a
fresh towel each time she vets the
tip of her fingers. She seems intoxi-
linen. The dressing room may be
crowded with women who also hope
to use towels but the towel-fend
makes inroais on the supply in the
rack until economy is necessary.
There's the woman who glares at
each newcomer as though she were
an intruder, and the one who loses
her jewelry n stares s~uspiciously
at the occupants of the room to see
upon which ones face guilt is writ
ten.
There's the woman who explains
carefully and in detail why travelling
makes ner III, and the Lady who
cherishes the belief that the whole
world is trying to get on speaking
terms with her.
The woman who takes awful smell
ing medicine out of the drinking
glass does not contribute to the nap
piness of the occupants OF the dress