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Show Comfort for Women. Some time ago Pullman's Palace Car company built three parlor cars for the B. & O.'s New York trains, and the radical departure from other cars of this character lay jn the toilet room for ladies, which was eight feet in length. Recently the same company has built eight new sleepers for the New York-St. Louis line of the B. & O., and the designer of the cars has evidently evi-dently been impelled by the popularity popular-ity of the ladies' retiring room ii tin parlor cars to give to the ladies a vast deal more space than they ever had before be-fore in sleeping cars. These new cars are said by the Pullman people to be the finest they ever turned out, and the ladies' retiring room is exceedingly exceeding-ly commodious, and contains, besides other toilet necessities, a dresser with a long pier glass. The cars are finished fin-ished in vermillion wood, decorated with inlaid marquetry work. and. the upholstery on the hacks and seats is entirely new and different from any heretofore used, being a sort of a mo-quette mo-quette with a dark green border and a center pattern of bright color. A similar sim-ilar design of ornamentation has been applied to the ceiling, giving the ear an arabesque effect. They are alsj supplied with all the modern appliances, appli-ances, such as wide vestibules, anti-teloscoping anti-teloscoping device, air pressure water system and are lighted with l'intsch gas. A very pleasing effect is obtained by the oval windows of opalescent glass, the first that has been used in the construction of the sleeping cars. |