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Rh placed, one is sure of not being near objectionable people, and travel is made so much easier and pleasanter, and, I might add, safer.

Of course, it goes without saying that my girl is going to be as neat as a Quakeress when she travels; that her frock will fit her well and easily; that her hat, while it is pretty and becoming, may be brushed, and that it shows neither feathers nor flowers upon it, and that her gloves, the loose, heavy kid ones, have each button firmly buttoned. Her shoes are very tidy, and if they are buttoned ones the row of buttons is unbroken, but if by chance she happens to like for summer-time low tan shoes, her stockings match them, and the strings are tied and warranted not to come undone. A very simple coat, tailor-made, is the wrap which she carries, and which is assumed when there is any draught. A coat is to be preferred to a short cape, for the reason that it covers the arms, and really doesn't give a breath of cold air an opportunity to get close to one.

My girl enters the car with her parlor-car check in her hand, and is very quickly ensconced where she should be; her bag, her shawl-strap, and two or three small packages have all been put about her by whoever has come to bid her good-by, and she