Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-28
As ONE WOMAN SEES IT
On the Advantages Of Being a TWEEN.
t'eth Century Traveller With Gas.
ua' Method Of Starting a Journey
and Stopping on the Way
BY SARAH u. LOWRIE

.'i VI JourHcsS tnnnkS 10 tnc UutOHnOUiie,
ana there Is leisureliness about our ar
rivals and departures that is as far removed
| from the scramble of our parents train ar
| riVais ana departures ms their weller OF lug
gage differs from our compact hand assort-
| mcnt.
Not having to make trains creates a world
of difference In the leisurely getting off. and
not being able to check trunks without a
bunch Of railroad tickets makes the travel
| ers ny motor travel light
Some friends came over for n long planned
visit week ago from the direction of Nor
| ristown., n. j. BY train they would have
| mad at least two changes of cars and the
| transportation to and from the stations.
have had to be got off the day before in
order TO arrive while they were here, and
their departure would have made breakfast
at ,,h an unusual unusual hour a necessity at this end.
with hurried and unsatisfactory leave-
taking from disturbed household.
, AS IL was, they drove up in comfortable
Limousine with their belongings comfortably
disposed about them. and arrived in time
!or tea, having left home after lunch; and
they departed after day or two, when all
the household was ready to go about its busi-
ness after desultory breakfast, not quite
sure in their comfortable minds whether they
would go straight home or stop over for q
night ut their little mountain farm in the
hill country above Paterson.
TT is this ease of getting about, and the
casualness Of plans, and the possibility Of
travelling IN actual luxury and yet without
something like the old informally Of travel
possible.
For inconvenent as were the stage coaches
and long drawn-out az were the journeys,
our grandparents in their early days took
much more pleasure In the happenings by
the way and were not so bent on the ar
irving and departing rs were the train.
catchers' of the following generation. And
whether they stopped at an inn or at the
, mouse OF friend or an acquaintance, the
stopping was more easy going and nt the
same time more bland than the fitted in
dates of the later travellers who moved BY
timetables and announced their exact mo-
ment of arrival and departure with an ada
nant certitudc some weeks in advance
1t is very difficult for those of us who
were brought up under that pctrifed regime
TO comprehend, much less to approve of. the
present mot making up the mind till the
,as! .s'. minute custom, but on the other hand
sitting loosely to plans used to have TO
be inculcatcd as a virtue, while it is now in
the air we breathe And of the two extremes,
Sotncss and casualness. there is no Ques-
ton which Is pleasanter to live with or laugh
with or miss an engagement with.
NOWADAYS. when more than ono ~ n
family can drive the family car and more
than one car is driven by one family. II Is
easy and even profitable to depart bag and
baggage family and domestics in the family
motors. leaving only the very heavy luggage
TO go by express and doing away with the
nuisance and perpcyity of trains and
changes of cars and time liable arrivals and
departures completely.
.n II one must spend n night by the way
the Wayside motor-inn is not so expensive
ana Is far more comfortable than sleeping
cars ana Pullman diners and il is noss;hle
to arrive unheralded and find a cordial well
come CO" az most OF the roadhouses. with pleas
no. "m. conversation fnNI and matching of expert.
cnccs from other Travellers who having found
themselves belated. have stopped, nothing
loath; at the first pleasant welcoming inn
sign by the way.
1t is q perfectly different travelling ex.
pcricnce from any possible twenty years ago
and the travellers who like it best are not
the young and casual, but the middle aged
and one time eXigent arrivers and departers
Perhaps they value 1t more because II Is
such an Improvement on the old, fixed.
herded journeys.
7 WAS motoring with friend of mine who
L has gone for the last thirty years every
June up to her family's country place in
vermont. For half of that thirty years she
made the same trains on the same dotes
making the same stops in the same big hotels
and demanding the same rooms and settling
down to the same meals. But for tho Inst
fifteen years sh" has varied her JOURNEYS
by means of her motor so that there is now
scarcely mile of beautiful country between
here and burlington. VI, which is NOT
known to her; the whole country ia her
entrance drive TO her summer holiday. She
has her favorltes in the matter of stopping
dogs. where they wink at dogs and where
one has to hide dogs. She has her suner
stitons, too. about where n hoodoo on the
car is liable. and what short cuts are snares
and what detours are worse than going
back"
She Is ncorrigibly unforgiving Of certain
well known caravanSaries whore things dis
appointed her. and very indulgcnt Of Others
where she was surprised by pretty atten-
tons.
She said to me once in stern voice
pointing up TO hotel on the ridge of n
mountains
DO you see that place far up there in
the hot sun! Well. all about this country
for miles are bad roads and steep roads SO
that within five miles of the summit YOU will
be warned and not attempt to climb nm in
your motor to see it, But il you saw "Ah.
yes. I've heard Of that place Let's 90 nm
for linch: ana II W" like 1t spend night
there. What do you find? First. last and
always-Rulcs,
STTNIERE is a rule that you must leove
l. your motor and drive into the grounds
There is a rule that If you have never hccn
there before you must go by n certain road
that takes longer than is necessary. There
Is rule IL you are thus made late for tho
lunch hour that no lunch nor anything
eatable. can be given to YOU for any price.
There is rule that no dog shall PASS the
threshold. And when in hunger and irrita
tion you demand telephone to arrange TO
go further. there is only one phone avail
able for all the hotel: because there was
rule that the owners did not like telephones,
But there is no ru" for all the ancient per.
sons in the world taking their maps on the
raror suites that have been made or copied
or bought from all the centennial parlors
from all over the Middle States: right out
in full sight are sccpers as you 20 miles
down II corridor in search of a telephone
to tell your chauffeur to be ready to start ot
once. Then there is rule forbidding NAV
Ing cards and one enjoining hotel prsver.
meetings." she added, nodding her head
while she admitted she had not stayed to trv
to break either.
OF course. 1t Is plain she was yerv nre;r.
diced for she did not in the least mind The
rules and regulations Of n sort of club an
hours journey from the mountain. "''