Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-18
THE TRIP ACROSS.
DIR. HUNTER INQUIRIES REFLECTIONS
WHILE AT SEA.

WHILE AT skA.
Some Suggestions Respecting Rest-Th
Appointments Of Great ship-rhs
Richmond Party.
Especial Correspondence OF the Dispatch.
STEAMSHIP UMBRIA,
August 6, 1886.
wish some Of your readers, as vel
rs you yourselves, could enjoy thu
physical and mental rest sea-voysgs
gives an overworked and tired man.
The change and rest take the lines out
| of the weary and worn face and bring
back an equilibrium Of forces. The
merchant or the professional man who
runs his brain in the same groove for
| years wears cut portion Of the ma
chinery Of life. and to wear out 9 part
is to threaten q wreck Of the whole.
Day after day, and week after week,
for years, to 60 over the same work, the
same drudgery suffer the same cares
and anxieties; please the same people;
prepare the same briefs; write sditori.
ais for the same readers preach to the
same hearers; relieve the same dis
eases; often hurried for time and hur-
ried for money-life is shortened, and
that which remains is lessened in hap
piness and value.
GOOD ADVICE.
Change your thoughts by changing
your continent is good advice.
"If l could only take my wife l
would CO." says one man. Take her,
by all means, if you can but If you
cannot, then give her the relief Of your
absence for a short time. Woman has
many trials, but there is one not often
noticed. Have you ever seen her watch
ing her husbands face as be comes into
the house after his days work is over
watching to see in what humor she is to
find him, accommodating her brain to
bis Happy and bright when he is so,
quiet and gentle when he Is tired and
worried; sympathetic when he shows
grief-chsnging her humor to the temper
Of his. Oh, the infinite tact and skill
woman shows because Of her love for
man ! Take care to preserve the last,
my lords, or the others will take wings
and fly.
OUR ENGLISH COUSINS.
But if you want change of scenes
and thoughts and prolopgstion of life
adopt the plans our English cousins fol-
low: Take holiday for one or two
months every year. Get locum tenens
and 20 abroad. 1t is this custom which
makes the English last so much longer
than we do. 1t enabled Palmerston at
eighty years or over to take care Of Eng
land Lord Derby, when fully as old
and while Premier, to translate Homer
rs mere pastime, and Disraeli with |
all the cares Of State upon him, when |
fsr beyond three score and ten," to
write Lotbaire. There are many Eng
ishmen eighty years old and upward |
who are able successfully to continue
heir work. How many are there in
our old State over eighty years old who
IAN do any work? | believe the habit
# taking yearly rest has contributed
IS much or more than anything else to
he long and useful lives Of many Eng
ish people.
AT SEA.
To proloDg life, or to escape some of
be fearful nervous disorders so com.
non in our land because Of our habits
hat they are spoken Of in England as
'eculisrly American, take one Of the
many splendid steamers which leave
Jew York for Liverpool. In ten hours
'ou are out upon the ocean, free from
elegrams and newspapers, with
thoughts directed to new subjects,
mopg new people, in new atmosphere.
he lines and burrows are smoothed
ut Of your face, the pale skin gets a
ew color, the heart and brain q ne W i'm
etus. Life on shipbosrd makes
great change; and now the pas
age across the Atlantic is SO
heap, so safe, and so pleasant,
very landsman should 60. No one
IN have conception of the ocean with
ut seeing it. No pictures or words can
i've you on idea Of its immensely and
randeur. You must have 1t around
GU and under you to feel the speech
ss awe which, when face to face with
D., it inspires. To-day it is calm,
nooth as pond, and almost notion
SO tomorrow it is furious and fright
il, hurting one wave after another un-
their great crests leap over the ship,
J if they wanted to enfold You in their
-eadful embrace. No woman's face is
ore chaDgeable than the face Of the sea. ]
SAFETY.
" All :" says one, that's not the
laDge want; wouldn't enjoy that"
think you would if you tried it. You !
Ell SO safe in these great ships, in !
hich every art snd science known to
an has been employed for their per-
ction. There is nothing in natural
lilosophy, chemistry, mechanics,
athematics, or any other science
hich has not been used in the con- i,
ruction Of the modern steamship to g
IKE it safe and luxurious and, pro L
to, there are fewer accidents in ira
ling at sea than on land. On the :
'smship from which l am now writing
ere is every new device to make the = :,
osiDg of the Atlantic safe, speedy, and
mfortable. The ship is Of steel, over
0 feet long, 81 feet broad, and 38 feet
en-. She ia as long as one and a half o.