The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-09
TRAVEL IN EUROPE
War Time Experience Of Interest
to Tourists of the Good
Old Days.
Joys AND HARDSHIPS CITED
Impression Of American Woman, Trav-
cling With Two Children, That
Second Glass Was Comfort
able, Soon Shattered.

An American woman with two chill
dren recently travelled from Paris to
Rome. AS a matter of economy, and
relying upon the impression gained be-
fore the war that the second class was
comfortable, she travelled second class.
1t was comfortable in France, but when
an italian train was taken, at Modane,
q train that also accommodated local
travel, she found her company to con-
better than the peasant type, none too
cleanly in dress and given to eating all
sorts Of food and drinking all kinds of
wine in their seats, according to cor
respondent of Railway Age Gazette.
The discomfort of the journey was
increased when, near Turin, 1t began to
rain. The woman was looking out the
window watching the rain pour down
the hillsides, only as it seems to have
been able to do since the war began,
when she felt some water dripping
upon her hair. She looked up to dis
cover that, through a leak in the car
roof, the rain had come In, utterly
j
Ing into her valises slowed in the racks
overhead. The further the train went
the worse it rained. She went to try
to find seats In another car. All Of
them were leaking. An appeal to the
conductor was fruitless. what can
you expectT' he said. "The sun was so
hot during the summer it opened up
these seams in the car roofs, and they
haven't been repaired. It's war time,
and so forth.
Went to Sleep in BouIoone.
Surprising you are provided with
proper passports, you are able to buy
your railroad ticket without difficulty
and travel even through the war zones
until you come to a frontier station
Here your difficulties may be few oil
many, according, not to your passports
but to your luck. / knew one man who
went from Italy to England and bacl
again and his only unusual experience
was this: At Boulogne he went to bee
on board a channel boat expecting tt
wake up the next morning at Dover
He woke up once or twice during the
night, heard the usual splashing of wa
ter through the portfolio, and prompt,
went to sleep again, unafraid of sub
marines. Shortly after daylight h
woke up, looked out and saw that thu
vessel was tied up to a dock. HI
dressed, packed his valise and wen
upon deck, ready to go ashore. There
he saw the same dock he had seen tn,
night before he went to bed. Surprised
he asked If the vessel had been forced
to put back to Boulogne during thu
night. "She hasn't left the dock a
all," he was told. "Her departure hal
been postponed until tonight. Mean
while you passengers must go ashor'
aud report to the police station" Thu
man spent dull day and finally dit
arrive at Dover the next morning.
On the other hand, at the frontiers
many people, especially women, hav'
adventures which to some of them ar
particularly dreadful. Many Of TIL
spies used by both sides in the wa
have been women. Consequently al
women are apt to be subjected t
search at the frontiers, no matter il
which direction they may be going
Customs officers have been made war,
by multitudes of tricks. Thus it beinl
unlawful as matter of national econo
my for persons to take gold coin out o
France into Italy, or out of Italy int
France, or any other country, poo
woman carrying basket of eggs re
Gently was stopped at Modane. Inspec
ton of the basket revealed under tn
eggs 10000 lire In gold 1t is not IN
usual for country women to carr
baskets of eggs or chickens, but tn
trick of one has since made tn
frontier difficult for the others.
A distinguished French woman, VIII
had spent some months in Italy, stimu