Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-20
OUTFIT FOR A TRIP ABROAD
Needs Of the Woman Who is Going to
Europe.
WHAT REALLY SHOULD BE TAKEN
Special Provision This Year for Peach
Basket Hat--Littls Comforts on
shiDbOard-Hat, FOotweaz
and Globes.

NEW YORK. June r.-ops Of the most
important problems that the nurops-going
woman has to face this summer is that
OF the peach-baskot hat What TO do with
II and howl
You might as well try to pack a grand
piano or q gramophone In q steamer trunk
a. q peach basket hat. OF course one an
sweF to the puzzle is, wear a.; but YOU
know how q woman loves to wear her spe-
cia love Of a hat through Scotch mists and
those exaspering showers that make Paris
and London seem bent on destroying every
thing Of American importation. Wear III
Perish the thought
A woman will do anything rather than
that, and in consequences the shopkeepers
have put on the market an interesting line
OF hat trunks especially adApted for the
seasons needs. Not only one, but half q
doSen, peach hats can be accommodated
In one Of these trunks, and besides there
are compartments for shirtwaists, stocks,
stationery and the overflow OF toilet ac-
oessories, This trunk has the disadvantage
OF height, which preeludes IT from the
stateroom, but otherwise II answers all the
demands made on II, In enamel leather
studded with brass nails. or in the regu-
lar trunk feathers, the price for such q
trunk ranges from SIS for the smartest va
risty to 80 or S12.
with the wardrobe Trunk.
II one excepts the wardrobe trunks and
n. latest novelties. which may be turned
at will into standing closets with gowns
unwrinlded hanging in g homelIke way
from patent stretchers. the newest trunks
attract from the combination Of lightness
and stability. some of them have half a
dozen trays. easily lifted out, separating
the wardrobe so that the various articles
may be readily found an important item
TO consider when travelling about from one
place to another on an extended tour.
Into such a trunk every possible piece
may be slowed that would be needed even
by one who has social obligations to fill
on the other side In addition to her travel
ing ambitions. Such a trunk, Of the best
leather and trimmings, may cost ~ but
II Is practically indestruotible.
Steamer trunks are shown In wicker,
covered with enamel leather, a combination
which seems to be approved by the expert
enced traveller, and these come at rs for
the very best. As the steamer trunk has TO
fit under the berth, not much leeway is
allowed for novelties. but this year che
Innings are specially trim and dainty, some
Of them padded and many with pasteboard
Compartments. A good steamer trunk Of
ordinary make may be had for 81 or SIS.
AdvIce from Experience.
A young woman who takes q party over
to Europe every year gives the following
advice on the subject Of steamer toys;
First and foremost comes q comfortable
steamer rug, which one must buy, beg,
borrow or steal. AS an additional ieok
comfort q little pillow that fits snugly be-
hind the ears is a good thing to remember
70 talks. If you do not want to bother to
take the pillow, q chint slip that will fit
over q berth pillow that may be taken
from the stateroom answers every purp use.
Il The steamer hat Ia naturally enc of the
most trying articles TO decide about unless
one Is fortunate enough 20 be Of She sort
who say We'll you look like a guy any
way on board a steamer, SO what's the
aseTl Naturally that simplifles matters
Immensely, and II one feels that way really
your husbands old camping hat or YOU
brothers cap. even q worsted abomina-
ton or a s~o-called fasolnator, may do.
But for the woman who takes pride in
looking well under the most trying circum-
stances a careful survey OF the shops
harvest in this class Of merchandise may
not he amlss
She viii have to take plenty Of time
about it, she will nave TO remember thai
her hair viii not always be coiffured as
dalntlly as It is when she tries the hat
on. and that It is absolutely necessary thai
she study In addition 10 its becamingnes:
its adaptabnlty to a wind and to reclining