The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-06
Bah ON THE SALT SEA.
A FRESH PICTURE OF LIFE ON
BOARD SHIP.

SpriRhtly Time and Laughs at Her
Sick Passengers - Cow the Ocean
Impresses Bright New York
Woman - When Women Are Sea
sick - How Seasickness Affects
Love - A Storage Born Baby
Woman's Complaints on the Ocean
A Readable Cosby Sea Letter,
Fresh as the Oceans Waves.
Especial CorrespondeRce)
On BOARD SHIP, mailed at Queenstown
This is in the longitude of delight and the
latitude of good health. Every body-that
is, everybody who was built to sail over the
broad blue sea-has gotten over the curious
feeling $50 called) that results from the pc
culiar motion of the ship, or the dancing
desires of the waves and is out on board
summing him or herself l have never before
SO thoroughly understood why men don't
care to cross the ocean with women. And
do thoroughly understand why women
always do exactly what they want
HOW WOMEN GO ABROAD.
The typical woman here came on board
looking as if she had never heard Of such a
thing as sea-sickness, gotten up in the most
head, striking ulster enveloping her per-
son, pair of glasses strapped over her
shoulders, and general air of contempt for
me. | came on board attended by three
pillows, a bottle of bromide Il don't
know exactly what kind of bromide),
and wan appearance, induced by
having taken six pills the night before
| didn't look like a sailor at all, though
| was escorted by a small fox terrier who
was Immediately consigned to the butcher
shop. The typical young woman considered
me feminine weakness, and putting up
her lorgnette, she wondered who l was.
She found out the next day. That night at
dinner everybody was very jovial and no.
body dreamed of such a thing as being sea-
sick. hadn't much heart for eating, so |
was satisfied with little fruit and glass
of champagne, and then / went up on deck.
SHE LOOKED LIKE PIsTACHE CANDY.
But the young woman who know every
thing had hearty dinner and talked about
being i'll resulting from peoples vivid inn
aginations. During the evening she was
not visible, but when l went down to nv
stateroom | heard her in the next one She
was hanging up things to hold brushes,
combs, toothpaste, perfume, shoes, all the
nonsense which somebody going abroad for
Sleeping the sleep of the Just,
was awakened early in the morn
ing by hearing belongings fly. The
ship was lurching to and fro, and the
brushes and perfume bottles in the next
room were in harmony with the motion of
the ship. That young woman was the sick
est creature you ever saw in your life, and
as | started out with my pillows and my
various belongings, could not help looking
in at her with tn same air of scorn that she
had bestowed upon me the day before. One
stewardess held her head and another d
basin, and her face was that color which we
so admire in pistache candy, but which is
scarcely suited to woman.
WHY WOMEN GET sEAsICK.
Later on the doctor was persuadfng her TO
get into anything and come cut in the fresh
air, but, no, she wouldn't do it, and that's
where the beautiful persistenoy of a woman
comes in. She will stay down in a close
storeroom and get sicker and sicker every
minute, instead of coming up in the fresh
air, even if she does look like his satanic
majesty, and getting we'll. Just make up
your mind that you will let crimps 90 to
the "demnition bow vows, " that you are
going to have dress, coat, shoes and hat
easy to put on, and there is no reason in the
world why you should stay cooped up like
a sick kitten.
DOGS ON THE OCEAN WAVE.
My daily pleasure and duty was to visit
my dog in the butcher shop. The butcher
was a mild-looking man with a ferocious
way of talking. He was fathering three
other gentlemen dogs besides mine-another
fox terrier, an Irish setter and a brindle
pup. Life was evidently full of Joy for
him, lnasmuch as he was master of the sit
uation, and you had to plead with him for
doing what you were paying him for. |
had urged hun to feed the delight of my
heart only on milk aud bread but | am
w rtaT,, AhaH a
meat and became blood-thirsty during the
trip. Whenever | went to see him there was
a sort of "Ha-ha-I -have-you-now- base-vil-
lain" look In his eye--in fact, in both of
them, and once when the butcher had his
knives out all the dogs looked at the knives,
and then looked at me as If only the pres
ence of the butcher himself protected me.
However, take it for all in all, the butcher
was a civil man, and he sent me an invita-
ton to come down and see the brindle pup
when it was seasick. | didn't know a dog
could be seasick until this time. | had al
ways known they were human, but if you
could have seen the fiendish expression of
giee on the faces of the other dogs, who,
quite we'll themselves, watched their sick
companion, you would have agreed with
me that they were very close kin to man.
kind.
recommended sulphur and molasses for
the sick dog, but the butcher said, ''Let him
have his CO." and as be was well the next
day, presume he went.
TRIALS OF SHIP SURGEON.
There was one trial left for Job He was
not made ship surgeon, SO that he needn't
be counted the most patient man In the
world. First of all, it Is necessary that a
ship surgeon should be good looking, next
that he must be gallant, next that he must
be considerable. and, most important OF all,
he must answer every question he is asked.
When you realize that from an inquiry as
to whether the captain would stop the
ship for $780, down to a desire to
know exactly how deep the water is
where theysare, when he is asked his opin-
ion of patent medicine. and expected to
carry the ugliest, crossest and most undssir-
able old maid upstairs, because she thinks
nobody can do it as well as he does, you can
understand how manifold are his duties and
how untiring he needs to be in the good
cause. WON IN lean on him and believe in
him as If he were a father confessor and
when they are various oolors of the rain
bow, their bangs are out of curl, and they
are as limp and squirmy as fishing tackle,
they still expect the doctor to admire them
and find a certain amount Of interest in
listening to the story of their pains and
anguish. Unless 1 were paid salary
bigger than the President of the United
States, and was only required to attend to
men. l should decline to be ship surgeon.
HOW sEAsICKNEss AFFECTS LOVE.