Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-19
NYE ON nm OCEAN.
How He Avertcd scasickness-Noteso oi
the NnxnYe.

How He Avertcd scasickness-Notes of
the Voyage.
Bill Nye In the London Weekly Telegraph.
Over l.5is eminent writer's have referred
feeliuely to the wide aud highly y-favored
sea. Over 1Ts,O00 trenchant pens have
started I'm upon l1s,o0O virgin diaries to
state that the glorious ocean extends as far
as the decollete eve can reach that the
raging main carries upon its turbulent
bosom the hopes and fears of a million anx-
ious hearts; that the placid green waters,
so soothing to the eye and restful to the
tired heart, can at times rear up on their
hind feet and nauseate a whole nation ;
that the CLASSY surface of the summer sea
hides the cemetery of the world, and the
peace that reigns over the quiet ocean Is,
after all. the hush of the tomb.
will not say these things, therefore, but
will refer feelingly to such little incidents
along the way as may be of interest to
those who may feel an interest in those
things which may be of interest to them.
may be wrong in this, but l trust not.
congratulate myself that am not sick,
although kind friends have fed me st7
worth of expensive food and done every
thing In their power to tantalize and tear
up the gastric economy. Added 10 this,
nineteen people who have repeatedly
crossed the water have told me how to pre-
pare myself fora voyage. So have taken
u whole lot Of things That Is the reason
am not sick. 1 took some things at home
and then friends In New York told me in
strict confidence of other things, all OF
which j took They confused me ana
made my head swim, but that is better they
say, than being seasick right before
strangers, SO took them.
People now occasionally excuse them
selves to go below for their overcoats, for
getting to return. Men go TO procure wraps
for their wives, although they have never
an, lac
will find themselves Mt Southampton
Men start in to tell me of good hotel at
Paris, and then suddenly remember that
the address is in their stateroom. They go
to get it. They do not come back any
more.
There are so many things I have taken
during the week to prevent seasickn that
now l cannot tell which it was that saved
me. i wish | could. Was il the bonesot,
or the Hunyadi water, or the blue-mass. or
the Piper Heidsick, OF the machine oil, or
the fruit, or the seltzer, or the oatmeal, or
the preparation for removing grease spots,
which administered to myselfby mistake,
and was glad of it afterwards, because 1t
took the taste of the other things out of my
MOUTH
do not know. If did ! could tell other
people and save them from the misery
they are now going through, while SIT
here on the deck alone filed with pity.
All the above was written hastily during
the first afternoon on board. | was then
fail of pity. Now ! am not. am not full
of anything. When first | felt this great
striving within me l was filled with alarm,
but even that went at last.
We have on board the average steamer
load, headed by DR.. Loring, the American
minister to Portugal, and family two con-
suls; several retired merchants and their
families going for the summer to Europe
lame New Yorker going to try the cole
brated mud baths of the Old World, not
having derived any benefit from the politi-
cal campaign last fall
Over and above all these, and many more
representatives of every state in the Union,
there are two Englishmen who change
their clothes whenever time hangs heavy
on their hands They also play powkah
somewhat, thereby assisting several poor
newspaper men indirectly and aiding them
financially so that they may see more Of
Europe than they otherwise might.
These two young men wear very attrac-
tive clothes with perfect impunity here on
the ocean, because there are no horses to
scare here, and the rest of us know that we
took our lives in ourhands already when
we came across the bosom of the deep. l
use the word "already" not because it is
necessary, but to show the reader that am
travelling via the Norddeutscher-Lloy liz e
of steamers already,