Show k For Romans Readini iI t tl13 OUT OF A TRUNK Tho Bcfct IVays of Planning and Pacdug I I How to TIe Comfortable with 1cw Clothes and Conveniences There is no time when any woman Wants to appear to better advantage than when she is traveling and 110 time when she has fewer facilities fordoing so Her clothing at least her dress gets zr dusty and carworn and the little niceties for making lierseli volldressed and comfortable com-fortable are at home far away from the scene of travel But those who journey a great deal and who maKe a business of being comfortable and pretty while on these traveling tours say that there is away a-way of managing so that one can live inn in-n trunk and yet look charming and have L everything that is necessary for comfort SELECTING A TRUNK To do all this properly takes one as far I back as the selection or the trunk itself By no means Jet the woman who is going i across the country whether to the Worlds fair or to California or even I over to Japan burden herself with more than one trunk It is only inexperienced travel ers who do this and only very un experienced ones whotakes boxes satchels satch-els and bundles for carrying the things which they deem too easily crushed to be put in the trunk Let the trunk do all the work And select it with that end in view Do not I let it be a large trunk Let it be a low one not much higher than a steamer trunk but if possible just the lengthof the skirt of your dresses I do noc means mean-s skirt trunk There are skirt trunks r which come just for dress skirts but these are for use only when one is going to a summer resort and taking along a I great many fancy clothes But the general I gen-eral utility trunk the trunk out of which one is to live during a month or more of a traveling experience should be so planned that it can be used for the entire wardrobe and all the little findings and fixings thereof now TO PACK M t When the long low trunk has been selected se-lected then comes the work of packing sfIuto the bottom of the trunk there goes a layer of underclothes all that can possibly possi-bly be needed for the journey On top of the underclothes lay dress skirts just as many as you are going to take along and then In the chinks at each of the four corners stow away stockings handkerchiefs handker-chiefs and little necessaries and a couple C of the next books you intend to read SNOW comes the more scientiuc part 01 the work There are certain things without with-out which no woman can be comfortable She cannot be even moderately happy in a ropin whose four walls are perfectly bare and where none of her toilet articles are near at hand Getting them out of a handbag is an abomination and distributing distrib-uting them around upon a hotel washstand wash-stand is worse than an abomination There must be a case for all thee things and it must he constructed on the improved im-proved traveling case method HOW TO lAKE A TRAVELING CASE Get for this about five yards of strong twilled jeans and cut out little pockets sewing them firmly upon a double back of the jeans which should be at least a yard and a half long and the width of the goods This back may be held together all around with half a dozen rows of machine stitching Finish the top with several loops to hang over nails Let there be as many pockets as there are toilet findings There should be a packet for the tooth brushes another for lime hair brush and comb a third for soaps cold cream and almond meal boxes a fourth for a tooth powder box another for the manicure sot one for the cur liner tongs and several more for the two or three tried little medicines which it is always well to take along It is a good way to put the bottles in the little corrugated pasteboard rolls in which bottles of liquid are now sent by mail Along the lower edge are three large pockets into which may be put slippers and a chance of underclothing the clothes brushes This requires Jess space than you would think Slippers are very compres3ible and a change of underclothes takes up no more room than a tightly rolled newspaper news-paper and you are not sure of finding a clothes brush in your room Gather these pockets daintily I have seen a handsome case made of heavy brocade the pockets shirred on ribbons tied in the center in bow knots If the case is properly made it can be folded over upon itself and then laid T double in the trunk on the top of the tress skirts To do this arrange your pockets so that you have a clear space in the back through which to fold On op of this put a writing pad with one of hose inK bottles that shut up in round wooden cases Also pens paper nnd postage stams in the pockets Lastly Last-ly in the body of the trunk lay a wrap or jacket = or anything you may want to have very convenient to wear The wisdom of all this will be apparent when the pact jug of the trunk is completed HOW TO PACK THE RAY In the trunk tray might be laid first an unframed picture or two an etching or a water color or a photograph These are pretty put around the walls when a slaying in specially desolate quarters where the outside view is uncomfortable t and it is a good plan also to fold up a thin silk mantel drapery also breadths of bright silk to throw over unsightly radiators radia-tors starring window cornices or even to disguse the outlines of the trunk itself I know a woman who always carries in her trunk a piece of rich upholsterers tapestry large enough to coved a bed and pieces of rich stuff for a table or two There are Japanese and other crepes now that will serve the same purpose When one is traveling one very often wishes to receive company in ones own room Cards are sent outto friends and friends are expected to call To receive them in the public parlor is not always pleasant and to hire a bed room and parlor sometimes some-times too expensive So the idea living liv-ing in a trunk must include a supply of things sufficient to make even the humblest hum-blest hotel sleeping room pretty to receive guests I But to the trunk tray After a few fancy things havo been laid in you will find that the tray is not filled up percep tibly It as only cased so that things will not shake about when you put them in Now lay your fancy silk waists your collars and cuffs and all you little toilet fineries as carefully as you please in the trunk tray Put in everything that you need to make your traveling gowns smart enough for dinner There is no use trying to travel far and meet strange people without having a little bonnet for dress occasions One cannot make a good appearance without it But very few women know that there are small hat boxes obtainable for the purpose of carrying these very small bonnets and these boxes will fit nicely in the tray of a trunk Keep your hat k compartment for other things Choose a bonnet of same firm material preferably of jet and let it be one of the noncrush able sort A little lace wrap is a great solace to a to womans soul when she has shaken the k dust of travel from her skirt and is coin f to the theatre in a strange city Andsuch wrap capable of being folded so that it will fit almost inside the bonnet can be purchased for the usual price of spring wraps IN THE HAT COMPAETMEIfT Now there are some other things vcrj necessary for comfort on a sojourn t whether long or short and you can put t them JQ the hat domnar inject One 9t these is a notwatet bag There is no knowing the dayuor the hoar when such I Po thing may be needed And when it is It iranted it is wanted very much and to be j without it is very bad Another is a small gas stovejor pressing press-ing ribbons dress waists ana wraps that ave been laid avray damp and are UnD un-D J i sigtitly oven when shaken out A small gas stove about as large as a coffee cup costs only forty cents and a little nickle flatiron costs inside of a dollar Put in a tin box of matches The whole outfit can bo put into a space as big as your two fists and the trunk will not be more than two pounds heavier with the weight And oh what a comfort those things will be on a traveling tour In the hat box too is the place for a silver or a copper flower vase One woman that I know always carries her greatgrandmothers old silver creamer in her trunk and the first thing she does on arrival at a hotel is to buy some flowers and put in it Another necessary thing though of a different character is a key board Very small ones not much larger than ones finger can be found and when fitted out with hooks they will hold those three great necessities a button hook scissors and a brush broom Put in a I tiny hammer and a box of the veeest brassheaded tacks If you feel at all I nervous about your bottles of medicine on the score of possible breakage you can pack them all right in a tiny toy tin pail or even in a cocoa can and set that in your hat box Now with the trunk packed thus one can be charmingly comfortable You have noidea unless you travel and try it The old style of packing which took along a dozen changes of underclothes and nothing else for comfort is sadly out of it these days I daysHOilE I HOME IN A HOTEL ROOM Arrived at a hoteland with the small trunk you can take it on a cab if you so pleasethe trunk is deposited in your room and unstrapped You hand your cases of pockets the first thing and there before you is every thing in the world you want Next goes up the key board Then you lay your day spread on the table and your writing tablet and your fan and your vase and your books The little gas stove is adjusted ad-justed and the iron is set on it ready for heating The fancy waists are taken out shaken and pressed and it is easy to be fresh and trim for dinner If you are going to stay more than nay day or two you can put up the pictures on the wall with a tiny brassheaded tack or two and it is worth while to throw the draperies over the window cornices ando and-o spread your piece of brocade over the bed during the day and you can even tie a ribbon bow on the rocking chair to brighten the room All this has been done times past counting within the apace of twenty I minutes and even less for it is as simple as can be And oh how it does repay I one It takes away homesickness and the rirfwifl and Innnlinnsn nno sn nftnn fools non n-on entering the room after a days sightseeing sight-seeing There is also another little feature which enters into I living out of a trunk in a very great degree and that is keep iig a list of where the things are put in the trunk The list can be kept on the back of one our calling cards and as it takes only a minute to write it is never a serious undertaking it should read like this Stockings from lefthand corner Handkerchiefs from righthand corner Gas stove rear lefthand corner of hatbox hat-box etcH etc-H in a great hurry you have only to glance at the card dive into the trunk in the direction named and you have what you want Nothing is ever mixed up and by packing a trunk in the same order always once gets in the habit of putting things in certain places and of knowing where they are Living out of a trunk is a very simple sim-ple matter if one goes at it systematically systemati-cally And after one Las experimented a while there are things to be added to the list and perhaps some things to betaken be-taken off to make the trunk ideal The comfort all depends you see on forethought and a shipshape arrangement arrange-ment of thingsnothing superfluous and I nothing lacking AUGUSTA PRESCOTT |