The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-05-10
a SEA SICK OPERA.
Fay TempictOn and Party On
Lake Michigan.

The Templetons Especially "Fay,O
have so many friends and admirers III
Waco, that we reproduce the following
amusing article from Peck's tiilwa ukee)
Sun of the End "rhe Fay Templeton
opera company was in Milwaukee Sun
day on their way to Michigan, and they
went across the lake on that fearful
stormy night. They had rather have
given weeks salary than to have gone,
but they were billed to appear on Mon
day night, and had to go. They say
that when the boat stood on its hind
legs and walked on the water that John
Templeton leaned over the rail and
looked Just as he does as Prince Lorenzo
i'll the Mascot, when he is travelling as q
cornet player. He was shut up like a
jack-knife, and rusted shut,sO they had to
oil his hinges before they could open
him. He said he had heard of troupes
going transforming and walking home,
but steamboat storming could
than anything. Seth era e,
the Pipe of the larty, got against the
smokestack and tried to sing his part OF
the gobble song, but when he &, to
"ba-a-a-a,' the air was full OF high notes
anu ALlp " 11ObbC LICIINlJ anu thNii liz
wired his eyes and sung "empty is the
baby, the main brace is gone" He
tried to Jump overheard, but was SO
light at er his stomach difficulty that he
would not descend, SO he crawled into
a life-boat and held himself by clinging
to the atmosphere. He said he never
expected to get his voice back, AS there
was no life-preserver on 1t. Alice Nane
knew she WAS going to be SICK, ana she
went right to bed and inhaled chlOro-
form, thinking it would last till The boat
got across the lake, but when the boat
turned over coup OF times she found
that she was awake III one corner
of the berth, with washstand
kicking her with its hind
legs, in the back, and mattress trying
to play her for Desdemona and smother
her in cold blood or lake water, she
couldn't tell which, but it WAS wet. AS
soon as Alice got time she was sick, and
offered her brother iL-law five dollars to
Kill her, but he said money was no OBJ
ject to him as long rs he had n good
time, and he leaned over the stair rod
and tried to drown couple of chorus
singers who were sitting on the bottom
stair, trying to die by inches. Fay Tenn
pleton was the only one that did not get
sick at first, and she was the life of the
party, singing and laughing and eating
lemons and giving the rest of them Ing
talk about her being an cold sad SEA
girl" She said this was mere zephyr
compared to WHIT she used to see on the
ocean. She sat in the cabin, looking at
a bOquet and dreaming over the happy
hours of her childhood, and wondering
why people would be sea sick,
and was qm tly humming "gobble, Cob
Bile, gobble, when she Dropped her bo-
quet suddenly and grabbed herself
about two chains and three links to the
right of where her heart il supposed by
many to he located, and turned pale
The boat gave Il hop, skip and Jump,
and Fay's hat, as big rs the cover to Il
cauldrOn kettle, shot across the cHbu
and her heart cane into her mouth, and
she fell over herself into the berth, and
hung on the curtain b, her teeth while
she kicked her shoes of, and curlcd up
IN heap not bigger than Il sleeping
ear pillow. Probably there never was It
sicker Mascot in the world, and VIXEN
the boat landed she WAS the first one
off, and she registered solemn vow
that he would never go amywh re- again
except ou the cars. She sayc now that
she can't hardly sing "In the North Sea
Lived d Whale" without feeling X asIck.