The School Magazine 100 Years Ago
“As usual there was no water for the Baths, but
the new pipe is laid and there should not be any difficulties on that
score in the future. (Not half!) Fortunately there was plenty of sea
bathing, so the Baths were not missed as much as they might have been.”
“The comedy of life in sleeping carriages continues.
They are too funny for words. The number of the berths are only hung
on the curtains and sometimes they get pushed along to the wrong berth.
Therefore no lady ever enters the berth without the greatest precautions
lest she should encounter revelations of pyjamas. If she has to enter
an upper berth the attendant brings a ladder and holds her skirts
round her ankles while she mounts, having previously taken off her
boots and placed them under the lower berth, very often beside a strange
man’s. Sleeping berths certainly test the stuff a woman is made
of, or perhaps it would be more correct to say, made up of! She cannot
undress until she gets into her bunk, and she has to dress in the
same aggravating way in the morning.”
(This latter item was an extract from a
boy’s holiday trip to Canada describing the Canadian Pacific
Railway).