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166 goes off amid good wishes to that city where she knows she will receive a welcome. As soon as the train has got well out she will, being wise, take off her coat, hang it up, remove her hat and put it in the rack, take off her gloves, put them in her coat pocket, and then settle herself comfortably to enjoy the passing panorama, or the book which she has brought with her. She need never have any hesitancy in touching the electric bell and asking the porter where the ladies' toilet-room is, for this is something that the good traveller always finds out. The hours fly by, and being a healthy girl she finds to her astonishment that she is hungry; she looks at her watch and discovers to her surprise that it is exactly her luncheon hour. It is only a minute's work to put the books aside, and to pick up the small square package done up in white paper and marked "L" in blue pencil. Somebody who was wise, very wise, knew that the average lunch on the train was not only extremely poor, but, for what was given, extremely expensive, and so, for the girl who is going to have a good time, there was a luncheon prepared.

Just here I want to say a word or two to some girls who have rather silly ideas about one's right to economize. These girls smile at the idea of