The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-12-29
luxury Lady" Lured
By Love Of Travel
Woman Who Preferred Her
Own Ease in Coy Home Sue
cumbs to Charms of Ode
Luxe" Train on the Santa Fe
Maid, Manicure and Shower
Tend to Travellers Comfort

Maid, Manicure and Shower
Tend to Travellers Comfort
The time-today. The piace-any-
where east of the Rockies. The girl
married and grown up.
SAID the woman In the case, a
brlght-eyed, rosy-cheeked, optimistic
Dit OF humanity, who always follows
the sunshine southwark when snow
comes:
AT last l have found the perfect
train, a veritable edition de luxe. It's
called the Santa Fee deluxe. Pro-
noanced Santah Fay duh Leuks. 1t
leaFes Chicago every Tuesday evening
for Los Ange-es, during the winer and
early spring, and runs every mile on
santa Fe rails. It makes the trip
quicker than any other train does. 1t
has every little luxury dear to the
feminine heart; just exclusive enough,
too. And the extra fare charged
doesn't hurt the pocketbook.'
Some of her friends were inclined to
De skeptical, preferring to huddle
about their steam radiators indoors,
or buffet zero weather wrapped in
costly furs. rather than spend two
day and a half on the cars.
/ But she, being an optimist and per-
sistent. finally prevailed upon them to
pack their trunks and go with her TO
the Land of June Days.
And in the end they found that they
had been told only half the truth. The
| beautiful new train that they boarded
in such doubt was all, and more, than
the Woman Who Knew had desc1tb-
ed. There was everything that would
contribute to the comfort of a woman
travelling alone or with children.
1T was like being in a first class
hOt6l.' one of them said later "T'bG
deluxe manicurist is a jewel, who
does your nails just the proper way;
and the hairdresser-well, rarely have
been so pleased with one. Soiled
gowns? OF course not. How IN the
world could your gown be Soiled when
all you have to do is to SIT comfort
ably in a handsome compartment or
drawing room car, as we'll fitted out
as your own reception room at home?
| And even if your suit does get a bit
wrinkled, there's a cleaning and press
| ing department aboard"
But what appealed to me the most
was the competent iadys maid who
attended me. Just think of the com
fort of not dislOcating your vertebrae
! or pulling your arms out of place try
| ing to hook your own gowns. ] be-
lieves in my heart that some one back
| of that new train has had experience
| buttoning gowns in his own family.
| AS / am not socially inclined, when
| travelling, and care little for talking
\ with strangers, l found the greatest
| delight in the observation car where
there is a library filled with the latest
/ fiction, besides magazines and daily
papers,
| ''Then there are the daintiest writ
ing desks supplied with plenty of sta
| tionery, postal cards of the deluxe
and-what do you, tbink?-you are
actually provided with stamps fol-
n - 81
any one giving Uncle Sans good pink
stamps away? Mail your letters
Why, of course you can. There's a
mail box on the train, and mail is col
lected by the porter and put off at
. every station possible And, by the
way, / found in the observation car
a dear old stereOpticon with views OF
marvellous scenes along the Santa Fe
road. And did you know that this
old time way of looking at photo
graphs is fashionable again, for some
one who knows has discovered that
it is the only way to see views prop
!. erly?'
Another feature that all of US wo-
men VIII appreciate is the large dress
ing rooms, with their perfectly ap-
pointed fittings; the drawing rooms
with their double berths and sofa and
Individual annex 1avatOry-a blessing
when one is travelling with a couple
where one can be absolutely aloof from
the world of travel, if desired
THE meals, too, are so well served
that 1 never for an instant missed my
| own cook. The dining-room is under
| the management of Fred Harvey; and
well, you've been about enough tc
know what Harvey meal is and how
perfectly appointed"
| And let me tell you something else
that every woman will appreciate, and
that is that after you've had youI
hands manicured and your hair al
, fused up properly by the hairdresser
and are al ready to step off the train
at Pasadena or Los Angeles, as spicb
and span as if you just had come from
your own boudoir, the porter will come
| in and present you, with the compli-
meI1ts of the road, beautiful bouquet
| of California flowers. If that isn't
the very acme of courtesy to women
well, then I'm not the woman who
! knows
1.-The time? Oh, yes, there's five
hours saved over the regular trains
and if you're travelling with restless
children that's a Blessing. However
| it isn't the time / mind, for truth tc
| tell the time spent on the new Santa
| Fe deluxe is a. pleasure. And cid you
| know that it's the first train of the
| kind to run across the western part
of the country from Chicago to the
1 coast?
"Of course the regular trains are not
| to be despised, especially the Califor-
MIA Limited-known as the king of the
Limiteds, and running every day in
the year. But then, from a woman's
point of view the deluxe, wfth it's big
ORA Ning-rooms, its observation car, its
splendid toilet rooms, fine library, anC
that jewel of a maid, and the luxur-
! les Of the manicuriSt and hairdresser-
is about the best thing I know of
In me you behold a converted trav-
eler.'
The Great A. & P Tea Co.