Leaves From the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy Nevill
Leaves From the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy Nevill
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Digitized by Google VII Travdling abroad — Municli — Lack of comforts — Baths and bathings then and now — ^A careless traveller— A carriage on a railway track in recent years — ^The last of the Sedan-chairs — An eccentric menu — Abraham Hajrward — Acclimatising crajrfish — English truffles — Change in dinner hour — Old English &re — Careless housekeeping — Cookery books — Soyer and his wi£d — ^An obsolete custom — ^The triumph of tobacco.
Travelling on the Continent in old days was attended wit...h many discomforts, which to the present generation would appear almost incon- ceivably irksome. In the first place, there was the passport nuisance, whilst the Customs regulations were infinitely more complicated and tedious than is at present the case. I remember that, in 1844, I nearly involved an old lady we knew — Miss Astley — in very serious trouble through innocently b^ging her to take a sealed packet to my sister, then staying at Mayenca In my little parcel were, amongst other things, four pairs of Tyrolean gloves, then much in fashion, and these nearly caused the arrest of this poor lady on the Belgian frontier, where the officials threatened the most frightful penalties, amongst them a fine of £50, for attempting to smuggle a lesser number of pairs of gloves through the Customs than the Belgian law 120 Digitized by Google VII CHILDISH DAYS AT MUNICH 121 allowed — ^the r^ulation being that nothing under a dozen pairs could be carried by travellers vnthout liability to a very severe penalty.
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Digitized by Google VII Travdling abroad — Municli — Lack of comforts — Baths and bathings then and now — ^A careless traveller— A carriage on a railway track in recent years — ^The last of the Sedan-chairs — An eccentric menu — Abraham Hajrward — Acclimatising crajrfish — English truffles — Change in dinner hour — Old English &re — Careless housekeeping — Cookery books — Soyer and his wi£d — ^An obsolete custom — ^The triumph of tobacco.
Travelling on the Continent in old days was attended wit...h many discomforts, which to the present generation would appear almost incon- ceivably irksome. In the first place, there was the passport nuisance, whilst the Customs regulations were infinitely more complicated and tedious than is at present the case. I remember that, in 1844, I nearly involved an old lady we knew — Miss Astley — in very serious trouble through innocently b^ging her to take a sealed packet to my sister, then staying at Mayenca In my little parcel were, amongst other things, four pairs of Tyrolean gloves, then much in fashion, and these nearly caused the arrest of this poor lady on the Belgian frontier, where the officials threatened the most frightful penalties, amongst them a fine of £50, for attempting to smuggle a lesser number of pairs of gloves through the Customs than the Belgian law 120 Digitized by Google VII CHILDISH DAYS AT MUNICH 121 allowed — ^the r^ulation being that nothing under a dozen pairs could be carried by travellers vnthout liability to a very severe penalty.
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