The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-02
Needful Things On The List
That Wise Traveller Makes Up
Easy Enough Do By Giving Little Thought to Subject
How One Woman Minus Belt Resorted to An Um
brela Cover In Time Of Need-Sleepless
Hours Spent In the Meantime
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

At this deectable time of the year, the
newspapers are overlooking with care
f11Iv tabulated and convenient lists of ar
ticles for the summer traveller, ranging all
the way from blue goggles to goloshes.
snd me wonders how 1t is that anybody
ever forgets anything that should be
taken along!
Yet every now and then we read
press notice to the effect that some for-
getful person who is travelling IN KAN
chatka or some other seaport town f1nds
that she has left her tooth brush miles
behind and can't get one there, or way
farer in Alaska can't find his bootJacK
and telegraphs wildly back for II. so
doesn't 1t seem judicious thing for
traveller to do to clip one of the ready
made lists of needfuls and pin 1t on her
min cushion and consult 1t every now and
then. so when the time comes to pack
her trunk there need be no agonizing
moment in which one vainly tries to think
of things that should have gone into 1t
but probably haven't
All one has to do then is to take out
the Mist and compare it with the articles
in the trunk-and IL the two agree all
well and good. If not, it's the simplest
thing in the world to sally forth and
make up the deficit.
Now if my friend Priscilla had only
followed some such scheme as this she
would have been saved the greatest
amount of worry and vexation of spirit,
for she had an experience which for nov
city Is seldom found outside of books
and fairy books at that.
One summer she and her mother
planned a lengthy trip, and among other
places visited was the Ausable chasm.
Now, the night before going through
the chasm Priscilla and her mother had
to spend the night at a hotel near by.
As they had made their plans to remain
there only long enough to see the chasm
It was decided that their trunks would
be sent on to Saratoga.
All the baggage they had brought with
them was suit case, whose chief con-
tents consisted of a fresh blouse for each
day. a light skirt, and a pair of stout
boots, that must be worn in climbing over
the moss-grown rocks of the chasm.
Such things had to be reckoned with as
heavy wearing apparel in the chasm is
not to be thought of, on account OF the
extremely high temperature.
On the evening of their arrival at the
hotel Priscilla unpacked the suit case and
nut her clothes In in readiness for the next
morning. 1t was at that psychological
moment that she discovered that she had
forgototen her belt to wear with the sep
arate skirt and blouse the next day.
Her tailor skirt was one Of those affairs
that has the belt built on it-thus the
unfortunate situation.
A woman is not without vanity even II
she is going through an underground
passage, or climbing the mountains high,
high high. and SO Priscilla fumed and
fused and tossed on her couch all the
night long, wondering what on earth she
would do for belt to wear the next
day. Thoughts of appearing in a public
dining room crowed with tourists the next
morning brought tears to her eyes, and
visions of herself In this smart hosiery