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carry ordinarily fourteen persons, with their baggage, and 

 the baggage customary among White Mountain travelers 

 is heavier than it ought to be. Our party consisted of 

 five gentlemen with their wives, and our baggage was 

 light. We were therefore very comfortable in this long 

 coach with six horses. Before we left the Profile House 

 we made out a list of necessaries of life, without which 

 civilized ladies would inevitably perish, and for these we 

 sent to New York. 



Every man should understand a rule of travel as well 

 as of going a-fishing, which is, that if ladies are of the 

 party (and they may almost always be), they must be 

 made comfortable. Gentlemen can " rough it," but ladies 

 should never be allowed to rough it if there are means 

 of transportation. 



There is nothing more absurd and unreasonable than 

 the growling which some men make about the quantity 

 of ladies' baggage. When you have ladies in charge, 

 take every luxury that they may require. It is as easy 

 to take care of ten trunks as two, and the secret of pleas- 

 ant travel is to avoid as far as possible all that can be 

 called " roughing it," by having in the luggage every pos- 

 sible comfort. In this way invalid ladies may travel 

 with ease and benefit. Many travelers of both sexes suf- 

 fer in health from exposures which would have been 

 wholly unnecessary had they taken a proper amount of 

 luggage. Men do not handle their own trunks in this 

 age of the world, and there are always and every where 

 plenty of porters glad to handle them. Are you crossing 

 the desert with your wife ? Add an extra camel or two to 

 your train, and carry trunks full of articles that you may 

 just by a bare possibility find convenient. Is economy 

 an object with you ? Then do not take a lady where she 



