Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-25

Express when she start on her little trip
to the chateaux OF the Loire.
No Sas buy. ;h. steamer n. e sa Ths
the Wise rent two within half an hour
after coming on board. Putting their
visiting cards IN the slip Of each. they
instruct the deck steward to set them out
In the spot chosen every saornins|one on
when wanted. or to avoid It when shade
Is desired.
The girl who caught cold now has rus
and jacket for midsummer in Europe.
up chill. Moderate tourists. running q
few days trips to Tours and Blois or
Coucy or Pierrefonds take their rugs for
extra bed covering. and their prompt
unrolling as a shawl IN railway car, cab
or auto at sunset may save precious
life. Whose life? Why, yours. Do not
loan your rug.
Another lady's ocean trip was spoiled
by lack OF steamer trunk. She really
did not know that steamer trunks, made
low enough to slide beneath the berth.
are the only kind allowed in average
stateroons. Her big Saratoga was buried
IN the hold beneath a hundred others: 50
she lived with her handbags contents,
On the fifth day only they moved the
Saratoga up to the deck baggage room,
where ladies who insist beforehand may
keep one big trunk each for evening
gowns.
She was Just In time for the boats en-
tertainment. and she says that every
woman tourist ought to bring some sort
OF evening costume, because dressing
abroad. forlope-a, invited dinners and 50
on, often holds the balance between
pleasuresande humiliation.
Again and again l have seem mon
turned down FOR lack OF dress suit or
Tuxedo-which In full midsummer passes
perfectly. OF course, no one in decent
tourist sack suit. not !oud Irish tweeds,
will be refused in any Paris theater. or
even the Grand Opera. Very loud. light
tinted or shabby ones may get their wear
ers invited up higher; but bicycle
suits and Norfolk jackets are the only
ones barred on principle at Moulin Rouge,
students ball and the gay promenoirs.
l remember the disgust Of two college
boys who thought they would not need
their dress clothes They had become in
terested IN a family with two daughters,
and the young fellows prompt ordering
Of Tuxedos from a Rue Auber tailor got
them invited gratis. except for their mere
Austrian Tyrol. You see, the ladies were
trifing bit snobbish, and wanted their
escorts to be able to dress for dinner
and evening casino in the Swiss, German.
austrian ana ItaHan toWhs tney WOulo
stop in
The less money a tourist has. the more
his dress suit will be his friend. It
saves money even for the lone man at
the Moulin Rouge 1t permits him to
swell around and buy nothing. Every
one respects the man in evening clothes.
And as to clothes in general, wise tour
lists dress better abroad than at home. A
couple OF nice new tweed or serge sack
suits make the trip agreeable; and they,
too. save money. Boarding house pro2rie
tors give better rooms at cheaper rates to
prosperous-looking men who make their
place look smart.
The wise have even as smart-looking
baggage as possible. The same reasoning
ap plies. 1t pleases the hotel and pension.
Men are judged by their baggage. All
the same it should be light and not voIu-
minous; because in Europe it must be
weighed for excess above small max
timum whenever a railway ticket is