Economies Of Travel

Once in a while the weathereock Fashion points in the direction of economy, sound sense, and good taste. It so hapens that such is the case now with regard to traveling dresses. A plain de bege is good enough for anybody, and 20 yards will make a modest suit at a cost of froin $6 to #10 for the raw material. A plain hat will cost $2 more. Everybody has or ought to have a satohel, a big shawl, and a traveling strap. With this the equipment for a short journey is sufficient. Excursión tickets are furnished at reduced rates, enabling the excursionist to visit various points of interest at little more than half the price for bare travel. It is the hotel bill and the ineals along the road that make the expenses inount up so frightfully and keep at home many people that otherwise could aflord to travel. If these could only be kept down the rest would be be easy. They can. A wellfilled lunch basket, reönforced now and then at a firát-class grocery, will keep the stomach and the purse full. In warm weather one is quite as well off to eat cold victuals as to have them fresh from the fire. The slave to tea and coffee oan buy a cup at any restaurant for ten cents and for the rest cold boil eggs, cold broiled chicken, sandwiches and fresh fruit will sufhce. When one is very mucü j aatistied intemally with thia fare, " a good square meal " may be had for one , dollar. Of course, if one has plenty of . money, and can spend as much as he . chooses, so much the better for hini, but , this class is not in the iaajority, and we , write for those who must either mise or forego all the pleasures of , mer travel. As to the advantages of the , lunch basket, those who have carried it once will be reluctant ever to leave it at . home. While you sit quietly and at leisure discussing your cold chicken and cranberry jelly, your neighbor iu the adjoining seat rushes to the table, snatches at the bread and butter, waits for his meat and vegetables till half the interval allotted for refreshments is gone, burns his mouth in the attempt to gwallow the coffee, bolts the pie and rushes back to claim his seat as the train whistles away, while he is heard declaring that " nothing was fit to eat." Likely enough rapid feeding will give him an indigestión so that he will not be hungry at next rnealtime. In an overland journey to California and back several years ago, the party of which we Jwere members tried the lunch basket system, and warmly declared in its favor, as much from the physical comfort connected therewith as from motives of economy. With no baggage to look after, except what is carried ia the hand, one is f ree to enjoy life as it passes, and can take things easy. If men can travel in one suit from place to place and require no change, women who make no pretensions to fashion can, too, if they only think so. An extra polonaise to be worn over the traveling skirt would take up little room, and give a change of dress ; fresh ruffs and cuffs occupy little space, and these, with ohanges of undergarments, are all that is really necessary. These hints, very nomely and practical, are thrown out in the hope that many women upon considering them may see their way to enjoy aohange of scène, and gain, by mingling with the crowds that throng the Summer lines of travel, and by visiting points of interest, a store of fresh ideas that shall break up and brighten the monotony of their lives, and give them, during the long Winter months, nleasant pictures for memory to dweil upon, and agreeable topics of