misjudge. Your American outfit will
render you an oddity in England. But do not change there, or you will
be still more singular in Paris. It is as well to start with but one
dress besides the one you wear on the steamer--anything you chance to
have; a black alpaca, or half-worn black silk, is very serviceable. When
you reach Paris, circumstances and the season will govern your
purchases; and this same dress will be almost a necessity for constant
railway journeys, rainy-day sight-seeing, and mule-riding in
Switzerland. A little care and brushing, fresh linen, and a pretty
French tie, will make it presentable--if not more--at any hotel dinner
table.

A warm shawl or wrap of some kind you will need for evenings,--even
though you travel in summer,--for visiting the cathedrals, which are
chill as a tomb; and for weeks together among the mountains you will
never throw it aside. But if you can take but one, _don't_ provide
yourself with a _water-proof_. They are too undeniably ugly, and not
sufficiently warm for constant wear. If it rains slightly, the umbrella,
which you will buy from force of necessity and example in England, will
protect you; if in torrents, you will ride. Indeed, you will always
ride, time is so precious, cab-hire so cheap, and distances so great in
most foreign cities.

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patience and good-nature. Without these, no outfit is complete. Try to
laugh at annoyances. Smile, at least. And do not anticipate
difficulties. Above all, enjoy yourself, and then everybody you meet
will enjoy you. And so good by, and "God bless us every one."

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