Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04

| JTuSJ III CueCkeu luEgnge IN 1ult. Wntu
| the war began to disntcgrate habits of
all sorts-that of delivering ones trunks
| few minutes, and, Mt most few hours,
after one had arrived at the journeys end.
for instance. Nowadays it is an intrepid
week -cnder indeed who puts his trust in
! the baggage man or in his satellites, the
| rural cxprcssmen. We have been driven TO
accept the European custom of quantities
| of hand luggage. Only the European habit
Is TO consider any sort Of tied or wrapped
bundle as hand luggage. while our modern
| American habit Is to consider any sort OF
leather. strapped recentacle that man can
| stagger under or that car door will admit
or that train corridor will accommodate
as hand luggage.
| 7 HAVE smallish trunk, for instance.
that will hold five gowns and two hats
ana an accompanying number Of othcr
accessories from shoes to hair brush that ]
cal hand luggage" My only excuse for
treating it as such is that leather handle
on top makes 1t possible to lift it a few
| in"hes from the ground. But I observe
that after one or two attempts to carry 10
MS one would carry dress s-suit case. the
! portcrs heave II to their shoulders as though
1t were-what indeed 1t is in weight and
siZe--a trunk.
End up, it will just fit in beside chair
! in the chair car, but there is no place for
! It in an ordinary coach so II I take II with
| me am obliged to travel cxpcnsivCy both
! as I" seats. cabs and p0rterS; but as it
! holds all the clothes any self respecting
| guest could wear for n week and arrives
! and departs when | do with no anxious
! misgyngs aS to the dates sworn to by the
| eXpressman, II is worth the price Of admit
| lance.
| 1t also has one other great advantage
it makes friends or enemies for me wherever
! 1t goes. because the men who are hailed to
carry it either wilt under its abnormal pres
| sure or brace themselves after moment of
| aStonshmcnt to muscle 1t and stride
| forth ms so many Hercules. In either case
its abnormnlity makes them break forth into
conversation for or against my sense in
! burdening the universe with II. And out of
! that stream of talk always get much food
for cogitation as pursue my Journey.
-
u"!' oetore SnriS'Llas l was north
Uound from the New York Grand Cen
.rH' Slh,lon' ana the red cap who escorted
my hhnd luggage and me to the chair
car was wlry, neryously built colored
man VINO suggested neither ole Virginia
nor PhiIadeiphia, nor Birmingham could
n"t pace nm geographically. But when !
o",I I IN MN, nov nov 10 pace the hand luggage,
ehd up beside my chair, he shook his head.
IS an right II you have nothing in it
,mh. ,hc neat WV Sp0l,. Those pipes get
lIIsh!y not ana yorc niue trunk is mighty
mar men, lou Know best what you got in
the trunk that could hurst under nrnsspra
Of heat, but I thanked him for the warm
ing as | feed him. Perhaps the fee was
larger than he expected. even taking the
size of the hand luggage into considera-
tion; perhaps there was some holiday cheer
inside of him, even if it was absent from
the trunk. do not know. but he burst into
talk Of an autobiographic strain, starting
az SO much talk does nowadays from Pro-
hihition and the Rights of Man.
He gave me to understand that he had
seen the author of prohibition ''under the
seat from counter. .rritant. Who the
zeal author of prohibition was he shroudcd
in mystery. He further said that in the
State Of Louisiana, where he had been born
and brought up, there was no moment of
the day or night when as a boy or man he
could not have taken something when
he felt the need. The point was, he had
seldom felt the need. Whereas now that
rights as a man assailed. He went on to
say that for his race other rights had
been taken away and that in his fifty two
years of life he had seen tendency to cur
tail the rights of his race growing, not
lessening. lie illustrated this by the career
OF o. one OF n9 MS sons who, on returning from
man and held, and to point the injustice,
lynchings done to one of his neighbors by
White hcn'
HhTOW," said he, my pcople have given
~ tliS country its music for ,bo 1oS+ ,o,
vcors-inzz ynn cau r. hrt !. '' !; ~ ,u,'
Mv noonI" oro .,,oJ -, ~ IT ls .>eer9.
Jnncr ~ that ,nmstc " o,n ,"M!ns mn your peopte
tmrn onr nttortion 70 ANU mo.H w. are npou, 10
| I asked him wbot that v.os It,,oi', =; ,o
| md ofter n ,,,omopt, Losi,ot;o,, .t, ~ W,
| bo woS ro"oii;n ~ d".' n'',.".i"l' aS s"ousn
ones Snrcc% "r nrintoJ .or,N M"aoS oi hone
| "Nhnn tho Cnr,nons "nT ~ re I saiu
modc " nort 70 Iiridn this '" ,,,', ,mr '%apnmese %
tbon, IT. VI, .i iuJ '!'' tuui.rE between
.uho. hat ;f'S ;s voun,ts eooh II 'HIghIy nara put
tor"ther ~ tbcm "tt ana '"e Japanese got
| tn,d lin, .,bn,' Tn"' ,,bo,,, :, r,,. -.,a
tbat 7 bomcd bo ',rom ''inht ~,nt ~ lHW "oTus
hi" nthnr rc,nc,nhassmd i,''I't ,ni I "Io.g WIZ.
| ~ 80" t . I.'~','a'orfe" ~ '"IH; put thouBhI
luggage IRON n othGr travellers what pity 1t
th" Son,% ,rcr" no''in, f", n"'1 ~ onT Nortn anu
of n c"ntnry moo r"' aus io' '''' si"'ers enipS
| '"Thc Sins of tho sotbor. ,,,.o .ho
.h;uJ m, f,.. "r H''s "l lne imt.ers unto the
| '"tIu "''u I""tin sVii't"