OCR Text |
Show I Advice About Baggage TON"T overload yourself with bag-page bag-page If' you are going abroad for a few months Try, if possible, to get along with one trunk, and If that piece I of baggage must be of largo size have It of the wardrobe type, as with one of these there need be no unpacking at every stopping place. The two dozen or more of gowns, frocks and coats re main on their hangers, occupying one side of the box, and the lingerie, shoes and accessories In the various drawers which fl!l the remaining space. Lacking Lack-ing a wardrobo trunk, best tak a small steamer trunk, preferably of enameled leather, and a medium sized hatbox of matching material But be sure that the latter piece has tray, as In that event during short side trips It will hold everything likely to be needed for a week or ten days. Meanwhile the trunk may bo expi -ed ahead to the next stopping place. Express charges throughout Europe ar very high, and this fact must be taken into consideration when planning plan-ning the disposal of the various pieces or luggage. That la why the enameled leather or the straw hamper Is moro popular with tho American tourist who knows the ropes than is tho big Saratoga Steamer rolls of small size are preferable pref-erable to satchels and Gladstones for hand luggage, for their capacity seems to be almost limitless. Provided an extra hat Is not needed a tourist can easily manage for u week or mora with what one of these rolls will hold, and the receptacle is quite as easily earned as Is a dress suit case. To accord with the steamer roll of dark brown canvas or of rubberized clan plaid serge, bound and strapped with leather, there should bo an umbrella um-brella case. When (rivaling nothing ruins an umbrella so quickly as exposing ex-posing It to layers of dust and allow-ing allow-ing its cover to come Into more or les violent contact with other kinds of luggage, as Is certain to happen If the ilk spread and the ornamental handle are not protected. t i |