Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1890 — The Yankee Girl Abroad. [ARTICLE]

The Yankee Girl Abroad.

In her aptitude for the details of traveling the American tirl often astonishes the European native ou his own heath. Last summer, in Leamingt >n. an American girl wishing to have her “luggage” taken to the railway station, and being located so near it herself that there was no need of taking a cab, went to the station and asked to have ,a porter sent around for it. (They do not have baggage expresses in England. > On mentioning this little incident in the presence of an Englishman and an army officer he was utterly surprised to learn that such a thing could be done, and said be should never have thought of doing it, but would have been quite helpless in such an emergency and obliged t? take a “fly” in order to get his luggage to the station. He had his doubts as to the success of this bit of American enterprise and shrewdness, and when the hour arrived at wnich the impromptu expressman was due the India colonel was on the qui vive to see if the plan really succeeded. I am happy to say it did, and the Englishman watched the “boxes” go off, admiring the while the American girl who knew how to travel. — Philadelphia Record.