Nellie Bly

Name: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days — Chapter III: Southampton to Jules Verne's
Author: Nellie Bly

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

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“Around the World in Seventy-Two Days — Chapter III: Southampton to Jules Verne's”, published in 1890, is a work by Nellie Bly. It explores elements such as compartment, train and railway.

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ Supposing one had the measles or a black eye, then a compartment in a railway carriage, made private by a tip to the porter, would be very consoling.
Supposing one was newly wed and was bubbling over in ecstacy of joy, then give one an English railway compartment, where two just made one can be secluded from the eyes of a cold, sneering public, who are just as great fools under the same conditions, although they would deny it if one told them so. ”

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ I also decided that the reason why we think nothing of starting out on long trips, is because our comfort is so well looked after, that living on a first-class railway train is as comfortable as living at a first-class hotel. The English railway carriages are wretchedly heated. One's feet will be burning on the foot-warmer while one's back will be freezing in the cold air above. If one should be taken suddenly ill in an English railway compartment, it would be a very serious matter. ”

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ Everybody has, and keeps his own place. There is no sitting for hours, as is often the case in English trains, face to face and knees to knees with a stranger, offensive or otherwise, as he may chance to be.
Then too, did the English railway carriage make me understand why English girls need chaperones. It would make any American woman shudder with all her boasted self-reliance, to think of sending her daughter alone on a trip, even of a few hours' duration, where there was every possibility that during those hours she would be locked in a compartment with a stranger. ”

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ The dreary, dilapidated wharf was a fit landing place for the antique boat. I silently followed the correspondent into a large empty shed, where a few men with sleep in their eyes and uniforms that bore ample testimony to the fact that they had slept in their clothes, were stationed behind some long, low tables.
"Where are your keys?" the correspondent asked me as he sat my solitary bag down before one of these weary looking inspectors.
"It is too full to lock," I answered simply.
"Will you swear that you have no tobacco or tea?" the inspector asked my escort lazily. ”

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ Small wonder the American girl is fearless. She has not been used to so called private compartments in English railway carriages, but to large crowds, and every individual that helps to swell that crowd is to her a protector. When mothers teach their daughters that there is safety in numbers, and that numbers are the body-guard that shield all woman-kind, then chaperones will be a thing of the past, and women will be nobler and better.
As I was pondering over this subject, the train pulled into a station and stopped. ”

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ There is nothing like plenty of food to preserve health. I know that cup of coffee saved me from a headache that day. I had been shaking with the cold as we made our hurried drive through London, and my head was so dizzy at times that I hardly knew whether the earth had a chill or my brains were attending a ball. When I got comfortable seated in the train I began to feel warmer and more stable. ”

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ There is one question all women dread to answer, and as very few will give a truthful reply, I will ask you to swear to the rest first and fill in the other question afterwards, unless you have no hesitancy in telling me your age. ”

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ I always liked fog, it lends such a soft, beautifying light to things that otherwise in the broad glare of day would be rude and commonplace. ”

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Nellie Bly, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days… (1890)

“ I very shortly decided that while they may be suitable for countries where little traveling is done, they would be thoroughly useless in thinly populated countries where people think less of traveling 3,000 miles than they do about their dinner. ”

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