The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-09
DAY COACH TRAVEL
D|VER1|NG
THE COMMON PASSENGERS CON-
PARED TO THOSE OF THE
CHAIR CAR BEHIND.

It's so much more divcrting to
travel in the everyday coach than in
the drawing-room car that. except for
the creature comfort of the latter way.
| would vastly rather go just 'ria'n
ordinary" The two fellow travel RS
were on the Bar Harbor express train.
which was pulling out from Portland
Me. station. says the New York Tri-
bunc.
You feel, possibly. what Dickens
used to feel. the absorbing interest or
the crowd" commented the less alert
looking woman Of the two.
For instance. the other day" con
tnued the first speaker, ignoring the
half satIrical suggestion. Il VAS start
ing from Boston for New Hampshire
| hadn't secured chair seat in ad-
vance. and. it being a week end
couldn't get one at the North station
So into the regular coach went
somewhat unresignedly. But there
proved to be plenty of room; in fact.
| had whole seat to myself most of
the way. There We're all sorts and
conditions of people in the car. though
it Seemed as If tired mothers with
groups Of children and with cats in
baskets pred"minat"d: lucky for thu
eats that they haven't com. under the
ban which restricts dogs tn the bag
gage car. II was such a comfort to
think that those cats weren't wander
ing around desolate back alleys for
two or three long weeks"
Tired mothers and children and cats
don't sound so wildly div"rting," OBJ
served the other, lanGuidly
oh, but there was Il comfortable
quota of immaculatelyg owned. yelled
and shirt-waisted women like our
selves-just the ordinary modern type.
And there We're confidential elderly la
dies. who fell into conversation with
their seat mates and We're the chum-
miest of acquaintances by the jour
ney's end. liked the naturalness Of
that the big man in shirt sleeves and
with handkerchief tucked under his
chin would pass by my seat-and
he did.
Naturally enough. the crowd in the
drawing room car is very much alike
sleek. stout and conventional-but as
II rule it's not AN obtrusive crowd
They let one another alone. II is the
promiscuousness Of the ordinary coach
that | mind most. You may take the
every day observation car: | like the
perauisites Of the parlor car-those
close wire screens at the windows the
footstools. even those grotesuue white
paper bags that the porter has to sell
for hat protectors.
After all, the point ] am making is
that if ii falls to your lot to travel by
tn, every day observation car. as you
call 1t. you can make il diverting
enough to compensate for these crea-
turc comforts, welcome as they are on
Il warm day said the first speaker.
luXuriously abandoning herself To the
depths OF her chair. One of the sights
that went most to my heart" she
added, thoughtfully. was that of
father who was seeing his family off
at the North station. He ought To
have been going. too: he looked hard
worked and overworked. but he babe
hoodbye to the mother and the three
chidren-and the cat.-Cheerily saying
over and over again: Nov. have Il
good rest"
You know. Mrs. r. maintains that
large percentage of the divorces in
this country grows out of the custom
of the wife and children going away
upon a vacation. while the father stays
behind tn work and amuse himself as
best he may" remarked the other: but
l believe that it is the vacation sepa-
ration oftentimes which makes it pos
sible for people To keep up living to-
sether in general Now. being COM
Portable. I'm going to sleep the rest of
the way" she ended.
Il know the scenery: there's nothing
diverting in this car, So | may as well
read" responded her companion, re-
signedly.