Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-06
AROUND THE WORLD.

. lem z Some Young Ladies Mfscel-
 laneous Characters -- StOvvaxvays. ATLANTIC OCEAN, ,000 Miles from Nowhere lo tHe Edltor or the JOURNAL COURIER:
 "I It takes all kinds to make world" Thus l muse as from remote corner of the steamer saloon I contemplate my fellow passengers on this the last voyage in the circum- mundane journey. I do not know when have been placed hitherto among more remarkable company of characters. begin to believe that there are no carica- lures in the world at an;-that there is a living prototype behind every so-called fancy sketch. If you don't entertain the same view, let me introduce you to some of these fellow-voyagers, assuring you on the word of an honorable globe-trotter that all of their characters shall be painted with colors which are true to life
 The most anomalous specimen of all is demure young English lady, who now sits at table with some young folks playing Consequences You would judge that she is a mature, experienced young woman, for she appears thoroughly graceful and self possessed. In fact there is air of fresh repose of character about her which at once
 
 extreme deceptiveness of appearances. Nothing could be further from the truth. This young woman has lived all her life in an English village near Peath, and has never been permitted to see anything of society hitherto You know with what seclusion the English rear their daughters; and l sup pose this maiden is as extreme example of the national system of development as you can find. The pernicious prudery of this English system is painfully apparent in her case. There is not man or youth on board this vessel who could not extract from her a promise to wed him on half an hours notice. Indeed, several unprincipled fellows aboard, with no honest purpose in their hearts, have secured matrimonial promises from her. This strange susceptibility, bred-as l believe by unnatural isolation from the opposite sex, amounts to almost disease in her case. She is on her way to live with her uncle in dis tant Nebraska. Unless there were some ladies aboard who appreciate the situation and acting guardians for her pro tenn, she would never greet that uncle. She IS fairly bewitched to remain over few days in New York, whereas the self-appointed mothers in question have so arranged 1t that she shall abide with them at a hotel there for one night only and then start West on a limited ticket in charge of the conductor. There is one scamp of an old sea-captain here who has taken cabin passage, and who secured from her promise to take 8 trip of a week with him to New Orleans, prior to reaching Nebraska, agreeing to pay her ex- penses if she would. In her innocency this young lady of twenty years could not see anything improper in such an arrangement, and when labored with, would reply, An, but he is so good to me. He says he really loves me, and wants me to cheer his lonely life'' 'FYou are silly girl. This man al ready has one wife, as some of us have found out, and she has to support herself, practical ly. Don't you think he talked the same to her before he married herr" "You are jeel- ous of me, because some one pities my loneli- ness and shows attention to me- I've are your true friends and only have your highest good at heart. Do you know that you are the laughing stock of this whole sh1pE Ii left to yourself it is as sure as the 1nf1ex1ble laws of the universe that you would have cause to wish you had never been, and that within one week" And then the girl would begin to cry, and would promise faithfully not to have anything to do with the men folks again. But no fly was ever more easily snared by spider than this same girl would be by some male tritier half an hour later She pretty and ingenious; and there were not few men aboard who thought walking the deck with her an agreeable mode of whiling away the tedious hours. After such a walk, she would return to her cabin all unstrung, and salute her roommates with such questions as-''are my hands such very, very pretty ones? So-and-so says he never saw any that were so beautiful before" Latterly, she has actually grown hysterical, so that she had to be put abed and guarded twice To-day two ofthe women assisted the stewardess in placing her in her berth, and then she was subjected to good old fashion ed spanking, which reverberted through the saloon, and greatly excited the curiosity of those who were not in the secret. SThe good women aboard are bound to infuse common sense into her in one way if they can't in another. And there she sits at the table playing ''Consequences'' now, with a quiet grace and which almost completely mask her unfortunate weakness. I need not that some of us gave the old sea-captain piece of our mind, threaten l ing almost everything except lynching.
 Strange to say, the same ship has giddy youth aboard who might almost be called parallel of this susceptible maiden Indeed, the two were the first to gravitate together. He boarded the steamer at Liverpool ju as I she did, and they were total strangers at the | time, made himself agreeable by helping her carry her things down to her cabin. Before 1 the boat dropped her anchor in the harbor of 1 Queenstown that night, they were engaged 1 to be married on arriving at New York, and | might be seen promenading the deck, wrap l ped in each others embrace. The funny part of it If, indeed, it was funny at alp was the fact that he was a steerage passen- l percentage, for he dressed well, and l had the aristocratic cast of features. I feil | into conversation with him day and | pumped the following facts out of him: q l got mad at my father and away from l home. Last August was my seventeenth 1 birthday and he gave me a f16 watch for a
 present I took this watch to shop, got 98 1 for it, bought e3 steerage ticket and started
 for America had to lie low at Queenstown, for I feared my father might have discovered
 my whereabouts and would send some one | aboard to arrest me. Now I almost wish he
 had have been frightfully sick and the accommodation of the steerage is the first of | that sort of thing I ever endured. I've only got about e1 left, for I've been spending too 1 freelyjn cigars and drinks. B'lieve I'll tele-
 graph mother for money when get to New | York and go back by the same ateamer :" 1 ''Pshawl'' I replied, F'look at that tough | young Norwegian there playing the accordi- on. He hasn't got half the brains that you
 have and I doubt if he's got larger financial 1 capital but I'll wager he doesn't come back | until he travels first cabin and goes on visit to his native town. Better make the best of
 a bad bargain rather than go home to be the | butt of everybody's little joke" But he has
 backed out already; that is plain.
 l Speaking of the success of these sluggish | foreigners who come to our shores, and of the deceptiNeness of appearances, am reminded l of one of our cabin passengers. He is a |
 most stupid, apathetic expression which I ever on human phiz. But there is | something to him. He has about as large quantity of real first-class grit as any man that ever met He told me his story and | it proved quite entertaining. He came over to the new world penniless, like the boy with the accordion, drifted away off to Washing
 ton territory, bought land for mere song, l and finally as he grew prosperous began to
 import fellow countrymen to help him work
 it. That was his errand in going to Finnland
 this time, and he has quite 8 colony. of peo- pie from his own town in the steerage of this steamer now. He has 4, 200 miles of Hallway
 travel yet before him and his fellow country amounting to S1 400 he told me. 'fBut nsy-
 CT mind, never mind said he; ''I'll get it ah
 back inside of year" I doubt not that he l will, though he could easily afford to lose it. 1 He has several thousand acres of land in | Carbonia, which is incidentally rich in coal And yet he is so inferior looking as to con- stantly remind me of the stub of cigar that
 has been quite smoked out.
 One of the passengers is a young man from