The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-14
Married Life
the Third Year
BY MABEL HERBERT uRNER.

'First-Class." Third Class" First
Glass Smoking" So read the letter
ing on the doors of the compartment
cars.
1t was Helen's first glimpse of an
English train, and as the guard open
ed the door Of an empty cartilage with
hearty Here you are, sir" she en-
tered with eager interest.
But Warren" she whispered an
xiously, this says 'Third-Class'."
"Of course Everybody over here
here travels third-exoept snobs and
Americans" Then turning to the por-
ter who was putting that hand bag
gage on the rack above, Now you
see that those trunks get on all right
THANK you, sir" pocketing the shil-
ling. 'I'll put 'em on myself. sir
. did he give you the checks ask
ed Helen, who was always fearful that
her trunk might go astray.
Checks? They don't have any
checks
mo checks. Why, dear, how do
they identify your baggage?'
"They don't. You identify it your
self You just go back to the luggage
van and point it out
But how can they be sure
HELEN is PUZZLED.
That you don't take some other fell
lows? They can't. We might try it if
we see anything that looks better than
ours
WARREN do be serious! Suppose we
shouldn't get our trunks? Think how
dreadful it would be to find ourselves
in london without our things! Could
you not get the guard to give you
SOME, kind of a check
"Now see here, the English people
have had their way of doing things
for some little time. You need not
think they are going to change it be-
cause you are over here for a couple
of weeks
But now the train drew out, and
Helen soon forgot her anxiety about
her trunks in her interest in the beau
tiful English country through which
they passed.
Flowers were everywhere. The
fields were gay with wild peoples,
cornflowers. daffadils and buttercups.
And every little cottage had it's flower
garden and green hedge.
"Oh, Warren, look. That dear lit
tie thatched-roof house just covered
with climbing roses!
Helen could not but compare the
charming picturesqueness of even the
simplest cottage with the unatractive
harrenness of the same class of house
at home Whatever else the English
man may or may not be, his love OF
flowers and gardening is an admir-
able trait
These dinky little trains seem to
make pretty good time" commented
Warren They manage to get over
the ground all right. We are doing
more than fifty miles an hour
And | love these little compart-
ments We are much more comfort
able and private in here than in our
cars"
Wait till somebody gets in with us
YOU won't like 1t SO WE'LL
At the very next station some one
did get ina woman with all the small
hand baggage which the English in
variably carry There ware a couple
of bags, a carryall, half a dozen brown
paper parcels. an umbrella, a basket
of fruit and a great bunch of roses.
She settled herself in the opposite
seat, while the guard. with the dex-
trity of much experience, slowed the
things away on the seat, under the
seat and on the rack above.
Big box, little box, handbook and
bundle bird cage and umbrella, quot
ed Warren in an undertone. shes
got EN- all but the bird cage
Helen controlled her desire to laugh.
"Do they always travel with as many
things"
. TOUGH OF HOME.
always Wait till you see a Lon
don cab taking some Englishmen to
the station
oh. dear-look!" as Helen sudden
ly caught sight of familiar sign. IAN
advertisement Of an American canned
soup. Why, do they advertise THAT
over here"
Sure. You'll see signs all along
here OF American pills and pickles and
tooth paste. See, there's one now" as
we'll known pickle sign flashed into
view
But We think THEIR pickles are so
much better than ours"
And they evidently think ours are
better than theirs. The other side of
the fence, you know.
To Helen it was seriously disillus-
1on1zlng TO see these American bill
board signs against a background of
English hedges and flower gardens.
1t seemed sort Of desecration, some
how.
But Warren, thought the English
were so conservative? How can they
disfgure their beautiful country with
these signs?'
"Englishmen are conservative all
right-but not where the American