Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-07-14
THE TRAVELLER AND
HER WARDROBE
MANY PROBLEMS THAT NOW VEx
THE WOMAN
TOURIST.
If INGENIOUS she CAN PACK ALL
HER APPAREL INA
SUITCASE.

N'S'+4Ii9444P iLdt ISdFeS an AlldQuc
port bound Europeward and every
through train west and north is com
fortably filled with tourists starting
for a summer of travel Another
week and the crowds that throng the
decks and rush for seats lin the m
servation cars will be even greater
for by that time their numbers will he
augmented by the hundreds of women
and the scores of men, whose work de-
tains them until late June or early
July, teachers in public schools. stud
ents and professors in the colleges,
that are even now enjoying com
meneement gayeties, and others whose
business makes only six or eight
weeks holiday possible.
These are, for the most part. the
tourists who travel modestly, and who
have limited themselves to a fixeB ex-
penditure, where extra expense is
thing 10 he reckoned carefully, and
small details must be considered.
And, perhaps no item of such a bud
eNb No4i Ctlt liANO tuS SUM lOldl lltbIt
insidiously and more surely than that
of baggage.
Two women sat overlooking Alex
andria bay during a recent June trip
through northern lakes and rivers,
and INDUCED in that pleasant diver
sion known to travellers as settling
accounts. Step by step they re-
viewed the events of the day and
their e.ltenGant expenditures. Here
fee, there dinner to be paid for,
boat hire. too, for a wonderful after
noon IN the devious channels of the
Thousand islands.
Again :. fee. and again and again,
Just think what we could have
bought with all the money we've
spent in fees. sighed the elder of the
two, as she signed travellers check
and made it over to the other as her
share of the expense. Most of the
feeling has been for this troublesome
baggage, and we thought we had so
little when we started"
She looked around the room as she
spoke at the two suit cases and the
two bags that comprised their impedi-
menta and the Japanese wistaria
basker they had bought on the way to
hold a few purchases that needed
careful packing. 1t had seemed so
little when the trip was planned, and
yet the four bags had been by no
means easy to transport, and the mat
ter of feeling had been an item.
One Woman's Resolve.
With four o be taken from carriage
to stateroom or from hotel bus to
room ten cents had been too little. and
in The American mind there seems
no Intermediary stage between a dime
and a quarter IF ! ever come this
way again. said one, as she closed
her account book, Il shall pack all my
belongings in one case. even if / have
tC, Go with fewer comforts and without
extra clothing. Travelling light is
not only less expensive, but less
troublesome I envy the man who can
toss some shirts and collars and his
toilet case into a dress-suit case and
start for the train without care"
Last year newspapers devoted col
umns to the triumphant accomplish
ment of woman who had toured
England. France, Switzerlanj and
Italy, with only small handbag and
a suit case, and kept presentable all
.he time. IN her opinion, women al
WAYS travel with more than they
really need. and she made up her
mind that if men could travel with a
suit case and nothing else, a woman
could do the same. And she did.
For the benefit of all women who &c
down to the sea with many trunks
Wen sightseeing and not society Is
their goal. the contents of that suit
case may be easily catalogued. A
brown silk coat suit and a hat tC
match, silk shirtwaist, and foul
white waists. one pair of shoes, foul
pairs Of stockings, a shirt, three sill
uniOn suits with handkeTchiefs, gloves
collars. wells. and the necessary toile.
articles. complete the list. In add
ton this sensible dame carried ;
rain coat anG an umbrella
There is always the fear, even IL
the minds of those who prefer sim
plicity of dress for rapid travelling
that so limi ed a wardrobe as the on
inst described NAV mean a loss
self-respeet. and place one in uncon
Portable positions in hotels and o.
shipboard. This particular travelle
did not find it so, however. VIVA
ever onalms she had on the steamshi
AT sight of he elaborate dressing TO
dinner soon vanished when she foun
others who satisfied all social d.
mands by wearing lace waist.
An air of independence on boar
ship is justified by the difficulties
putting on evening gowns IL eighth
ten staterooms. and unless one pa
ipnizes the most expensive boat
modest dressing is the rule. Hot
keepers are quite as kind to II
woman with suitcase as TO II
one with trunk, and there is no lac
of attention felt, no feeling of being
neglected guest.
The Convenient Laundry.
To he clean and comfortable is Il
main thing, and frequent recourse
the convenient laundry systems OF b
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