The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-27

ETTICE has "globe-trotted" ever
 since she was a slip of a school - girl. Circumstances have combined to make her graduate in the art of travel ing, and it must be said for her that, whatever else she does not know, she is a thorough adept at getting herself about the world with the smallest possible amount of fuss, exhaustion and expense. till I made 0 little trip with her last au- tumn; then I found that while I, in com mon with most other travelling English women. suffered from tiredness, smuts on my face, crumpled clothes and bad tenn per. Lettice was always fresh, spotless and sweet-tempered, When I asked her how she managed it, She laughed and told me a few of her secrets.
 "One way and another, I've knocked about a good deal,' she said. "I've gone around with a maid and a mountain of trunks, and I've tramped it with the in my pocket. If I generally look fit to pc seen, IL OILY DecduSt nave icdi ilicu how to run myself sensibly.
 ''The mistake you made when we went out to India was that you didn't take the right clothes for the boat. You let all your prettes' be put down in the hold, for you hadn't realized that a big liner is just the smartest kind of hotel that one can find anywhere. You may or may not want your evening frocks when you get there, but it's an absolute certainty that you will want them for the trip. So, next time you do voyage of that sort, store your rags in the hold and fill your cabin trunk with the smartest things you have They won't take any harm from being worn little, and you will feel all the more comfortable if you are nicely dressed.
 "Then you made another mistake-you travelled in your own hair. I'm not say ing a word against your hair, but it isn't in the nature of anything that grows on persons head to stay in curl on ship board Before we had got well under way, there were struggles wandering down your neck and you knew it, and 1t made. you restless and uneasy. You'd have done far better to get a few little pin-curls, and wear them all day under your hat. Then your own hair could have been in wavers till dinner time, when it would have managed to stand up and do itself credit till you went to bed.
 "Then I think you would have found yourself far more comfortable in your cabin if you had divided your tip to the stewardess, and given her half of it at the beginning, by way of encouragement A stewardess gets so many tips at the end of a voyage that few siiillings one way or the other doesn't make much difference to her. but at the beginning of the trip she isn't so rich. and a little present will make her think of you as the open | handed lady in No A. I always try this plan on the guard, if I take a night | journey, and so I find that he doesn't wake me up at o'clock in the morning | by putting a nurse and a screaming baby | into my carriage.
 Have you ever lost your luggage at a foreign station or port? I never have, though I've been through a good many, and yet I don't fight with the crowd round the luggage van or the customs counter. What do is to put distinctive
 label on my box-I generally paint 1t my self, with stars and stripes, or flarine Catherine wheels, or something of that sort. Then I take spare label with me
 and give it to the porter, and tell him
 to match it out of the luggage heap. The | chances are that there will be some one else in the same train with my initials and | that would be confusing for the man. but no one else is likely to have such label | So I just sit down comfortably and wait till he comes back triumphantly with 8 barow-load of stars and stripes, or what ever it may be-
 I'm a great believer in sitting and
 waiting. l find it gets you about the world much faster than all the rushing and worrying you can possibly do. After
 all, porter, or a camel driver. or a con-
 cierge, or a guide doesn't want strange women to tear alongside him and hold his hand. He knows where he's gong far bet. ter than any globe-trotter can tell him
 and, if you let him alone, he'll put youl boxes there and come back and fetch you, all in good time. It stands to req. son that he isn't going to lose you, be-
 cause. by doing so, he would also lose his fee.
 'I never could see the point of getting nervous over travelling. After all, wha
 does it matter? If you lose your train an other will come along presently. Does i
 matter so very much whether you get ( window seat, and whether your luggage ls in the front the rear van? I don think It's worth while to rush myself ho