Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-01
Ten Commandments
For Travelling Girl
By porothy px.

When thou travelest, oh my daugh-
ter, put money in thy purse and CON
sideration for other people in thy heart
for like unto pebble in the shoe or a
thorn in the flesh is the woman who
borroweth the price of ticket to get
back home, and who thinketh that she
oweth the Pullman Car Company and
all that pertaineth thereto.
2-Remember, beloved, that thou art
not the only pebble on the beach and,
that thy fellow travellers have the
same night to have their windows down
that thou hast to have thine up.
ASK not of the station agent more
than 536 times at what hour doth the
8 O'Clock train leave, lest peradven'
ture being an impatient man he hateth
thee in consequence thereof.
LEAVE behind thee thy canary,
and thy cat, and the wilted flowers,
and the stale fruit that smelleth to
Heaven with which thy fool friends
and thy secret enemies load thee at
parting, for, verify I say unto thee
that grateful public shall arise and
call down blessings upon the head of
the woman who journeyeth with only
one small bag in her hand.
5-Also, if thou possesseth an in
FAINT that howleth by night and maketh
sleep impossible to those in the neigh
borhood round about it, stay within
thine own home, and thy reward shall
be as the reward Of her who hath com
passion upon her fellow creatures.
6-When thou ariseth in the morn
ing in the sleeping car, cover thy head
and thy curl papers lest they offend
the eyes of thy fellow travellers, and
hasten swiftly to the dressing room,
where thou shalt despatch thy toilette
with great speed. Be not one Of those
she.dragons who bar the door while
they marcelle their locks, and put oint.
ment and paint upon their cOunte-
nances, and dye their finger tips with
henna, while their sisters moan and
blaspheme in their kimonos without the
portal, vainly seeking entrance.
when thou visiteth a strange
place clamor not for the things thou
hath at home, and mock not Paris be-
cause IL hath not the customs Of Car
bonado, nor rail because thou canst
not have buckwheat cakes and maple
syrup in the pension in Venice. Per
adventure thou mayest even learn of
the heather by contemplating his
ways.
S-Wben thou travelest in thine own
country seek not the plague spot in the
cities on which to feast thine eyes, for
behold there is the Metropolitan Mu.
scum and the St. Patrick's cathedral
and the public library in New York.
as well as the Great White Way and
Chinatown, and when thou travelest
abroad wear notupon thy breast flag
to proclaim thy nationality, for thy
voice shouteth that from afar, so that
none can mistake thee.
9--LOok not upon the picture postal
card whore il flaunteth itself in the
hotel lobby, for it eateth up thy time
and thy money, as doth a consuming
fire, and thy friends at home arise
and curse thee when it cumbereth up
their morning mail
l0-Above all, oh, my daughter
when thou travelest, have not a Yale
lock upon thy pocket book, nor lift
thy voice in howls Of rage before the
hotel clerk and him that robbeth thee
in the restaurant, because Of thy good
money from which thou art separated
for, behold the summer vacation land
is land wherein there is no place fol-
the piker. If thou hast the price, pay
1t gladly, and IL thou hast not the
price, remain under thine own vine
and flo troo