| Show women traveling aon never in twenty five years experience have I 1 ever seen ho many women traveling alone as there are this summer almost half the passengers in tho sleeping cars on my last three aripa tripa were women unattended by escort they were all going off somewhere to spend their vacations and were as independent as yon please most of the women carry those infernal kodak cameras and were too much occupied taking snap shots ont of the car windows and of the other persona in the car to care for the men I 1 have noticed for the last three or four years that women are getting to he more independent and are traveling about alone as freely as drummers they are lots of trouble though most of these women they want too much for their money and are too inquisitive to suit me the old hands at traveling are a little less exacting and I 1 know two or three ladies who are as easy to get along with as a man they go all over the country alone and you are just as likely to run across them all in the same town in california as alone in the cars they do not know each other and do not appear to want to make any new ac quain one of them is a boston woman of means she takes in every big show in the country aroi the native day in california to the bardl gras in new orleans and the charity ball in new york she knows as much about the different roads and hotels in the coun j try as any man I 1 ever met and seems to enjoy life in her own peculiar way if always see her at least four times a year sometimes more interview in st louis globe democrat |
