New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-03-13
Ladies at Sea.
VIVA, TO Expect, and How to Mitigate 1t

What TO Expect, and How to Mitigate 1t.
The Baltimore american, in view of the fact
that many ladies will go to Europe this year,
offers some timely suggestions to them. Very
few women, it remarks, can expect to escape
sea sickness, though all have it in their power
to render it comparatively light the weather
is moderately good. To keep on deck when
the stomach is nauseated requires consider
able nerve, rs the inclination is so strong to
rush TO the state room, but open air Is the
only security for an early recovery. The
vessel continues to roll and pitch even in
pleasant weather, and sea sickness cannot be
overcome until the brain and nerves become
accustomed to its motion. This happy state
can never be attained in the cabin or the
state room. 1t requires free circulation OF
fresh air, with an absence of the smells which
invariably penetrate all parts of the best
regulated vessels. After being enscOnced in
the birth for twenty-four hours it is with
great difficulty the enfeebled state of the vic
tim will warrant an attempt to regain the
deck. If there is no rain, three days on deck
will cure the most inveterate case, and the
balance of the voyage will be enjoyable, even
if there should be occasional rough weather.
1t frequently happens that ladies who take
to their berths on the first appearance OF sea
sickness, are compelled to remain in them
during the whole voyage, and are carried up
on deck, when land is sighted, weak and
lmpid. They soon begin to revive amid the
joyous throng of passengers, shutting the land
breeze, and wonder how it is that everybody
is so happy and hearty, whilst they have been
suffering so sadly for ten or twelve weary
days and nights. Depend upon it, the sailors
know best, and they always urge passengers
to stick to the deck.
Many ladies are compelled to go below on
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of warm clothing, shawls, and blankets. The
weather will always be found very cold while
crossing the Atlantic, especially in the morn
ings and evenings. There are some warm
days in summer, but these are exceptions,
and shawls and blankets are always neces-
sary to comfort. Flannels ought also to be
worn next to the skin, as the sea air Is more
penetrating than a land breeze.
. On shipboard is no place for fine dressing,
and those who attempt it must do so not only
at the expense of personal comfort, but to the
destruction Of good clothing. A dress worn
three or four days at sea will never be in
condition TO wear on land again hence those
who have had any experience in ocean travel
always take an old wooden dress, and keep
their trunks locked. This, with some clean
collars and neckties, will always secure a
tidy appearance, and there will be no danger
Of being Outdressed by their fellow-pas-
sengers.
Ii should be borne in mind that Saratoga
trunks must be kept in the hold, and that
there is no room for them in the state room.
The trunk makers have q small trunk, made
just high enough to slip under the state room
lounge, which will be found to be a convent
ence. In this can be stored all that is es-
sential for voyage. The ladies will find
shoe bag, with half-dozen pockets, an adj
mirable article of state room luxury. In it
can be dropped breastpins, watch, hairpins,
tooth brushes, combs, &C., and all the small
articles that would otherwise be sliding about
the floor before morning. A well-corked bot !
tie of cologne or bottles of medicine are al |
ways safe from breakage, and handy in this |
receptacle. 1t would also be well to take a
few small brass screw hooks to serve as extra |
hangers for the shoe bag, and articles of
which two ladies in a small state |
room will find it necessary and convenient TO |
suspend. There are but two hooks for each |
passenger, which is sufficient for men, but |
lamentably deficient for ladies. A small |
gimlet 10 make holes in which to screw the /
hooks will be desirable.
Sea sickness is the most humblng of all |
human Affections. 1t takes the starch out of 4
and brings all down TO a common |
level, with a facility that is truly surprising. /
W Z uttc seen COilc On DOdEu SNIP Ill |
perfection of toilet, who would faint if curl |
was dsarranged. Twenty-four hours after
they were rolled up in blankets, lying
upon the deck, having crawled up from their
state rooms only half dressed, without taking
time to arrange their hair, and perhaps leay-
ing the best part of it below. All pride of
personal appearance is gone, and they have
not energy enough left to move out Of the
way of the sailors, who step over them with
often similarly afflicted, and on one occasion
we remember 10 have seen newly-married
couple. just starting on their wedding tour,
the most miserable and abject creatures Of
the world. sprawled out upon the deck, per-
leetly Indifferent to each others comfort.
There is much truth IN the exclamation of
The old Methodist parson, that he was afraid
on the first day he would die, and he was
afraid on the second day he would not die.
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