RULES FOR LADIES TRAVELLING ALONE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2060, 30 September 1880, Page 4

RULES FOR LADIES TRAVELLING ALONE.

1. Be sure you know where you want to go before you get on the train. 2, When you purchaoe your ticket you will have to pay for it; no uso to tfl! the ticket agent to " charge it, and Bend the bill to your husband." And it he eay tho price of the ticket is 2dol. 96c, don't tell him you can get one just like it of the conductor or at the other store for 2dol. "60c, he won't believe you, and he may laugh et you. 3. Never travel without money. It requires broad view*, liberal education, keen discernment, and profound judgment to travel without money. No one oan do this successfully but tramps and editors. 4. Beware of the commercial traveller. 5. Don't give a stranger your ticket and him to go out and check your trunk. Ho will usually or.ly be too glad to do it. And what is more he will do it, and your trunk will be so effectually checked that it vrill oo7sr catch up with you again. And then when the conductor asks for your ticket and you relate to him the pleasing little allegory about the stranger and th 9 baggage, he ■S7ill look incredulous and smile down upon you from half-closed oyo and say that it is a beautiful romance, but that he has heard it before. And then you will put up your jewellery or disembark at the next station. 6. If you are going 300 miles don't try to get off the train every fifteen minutes under the impression that you are there. If you get there in twelve hours you will be doing excellently. 7. Call the brakeznan "conductor/' he has grown proud since he got his new ■uniform, and it will natter him. 8. Put j-our shawl strap, bundle, and two paper parcels in the hat rack, hang your birdcage to the corner of it, so that when it falls off it will -drop into the lap of the old gentleman sitting behind you, a'and your four house plants on the window sil), set your lunch basket on the coat beside you, fold your shawls on the top of it, carry your pocket book in one hand and hold your silver mug in the other, put your two valises under the seat, and hold your bandbnx and the rest of your things in your >.p,p. Then you will have all your baggage handy and" won't be worried or flustered about it when you have only twenty-nine seconds in which to change cars. 9. Address the conductor every tea minutes It pleases him to have you notice him. If you can't think of any question to uek him, ask him the same old one rvery time. Always call him "Say" or "Mister" 10. Pick up all the information you can while travelling. Open the window and look forward to see how fast the engine is going. Then when you get home you can tell the children about the big cinder you picked up with your eye, and how nice and warm it was, and what it tasted like. 11. Don't hang your parasol on the cord that passes down the middle of the ar. It isn't a clothes line. It looks like one, but it isn't. 12. Keep an eye on the passenger who calls the day after Monday, " Ohewsdav." Ho can't be trusted a car's length. 13. Do not attempt to change a2O <icllar bill for any one if you have only 9 dol. 25 cents with you ; it can't be done. 14 If you want a nap, always lie with your head projecting over the end of the seat, into the aisle. Then everybody who goes up and down the aisle will mash your hat, straighten out your frizze?, and knock off your back hair. This will keep you from sleeping so soundly that you will be carried by your station.— " Burlington Hawkeye."