The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-12
A SEA TRIP.
Why IL Il InadvisabIs to Take It In
SHaall Doses.

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going 10 enjoy yourself. You wave an
airy adieu 70 the BOYS on shore, light
| your biggest pipe. and swagger about the
| deck As if YOU were Capt. Cook, Sir
Francis Drake and Christopher Column
/ bus all rolled into one. On Tuesday YOU
wish you hadn'S come. On Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday yen wish you
were dead. On Saturday you are able
| TO swallow a little beef tea, and 70 sit up
on deck and answer with wan, sweet
smile when kind hearted people ask you
how You feel now. On Sunday YOU
begin 70 walk about again and taxa
solid food. And on Monday morning,
as, with your bag and umbrella in your
hand, you stand by the gunwale. waiting
10 step ashore, you begin TO thoroughly
like it
/ remember my brother-ip-law going
for short sea trip once for the benefit
of his health. lie took return berth
from London to Liverpool, and when he
got TO Liverpool the only thing he was
anxious about was 10 sell that return
ticket.
IL was offered round the town at
tremendous reduction. so / am told, and
was eventually sold for eighteen pence
10 q bilious looking youth who had just
been advised by his medical man 70 60
10 the seaside and take exercise.
''Seaside!' said my brother in-law,
pressing the ticket affecuonstely into
his hand, why, you'll have enough 70
last you a lifetime. And IA for exercised
why, you'll get more exercise sitting
down on that ship than YOU would turn
ing sonersaults on dry land"
He himself-my hrother-in-law-cams
back by train. He said the Northwest
ern railway was healthy enough for
him.
Another fellow I knew went for q
weeks voyage round the coast, and be-
fore they started the steward came 10
him TO ask whether he would pay for
each meal as he had il or arrange be-
forehand for the whole series.
The steward recommended tlps latter
course, as it would come 50 much cheap
err He said they would do him for the
whole week az two pounds five. Hesaid
for breakfast there would be fish, fol-
lowed by grill. Lunch was at 1. and
consisted of four courses; dinner at g.
soup, fish, entree, joint, poultry, salad.
sweets, cheese and dessert; and a light
meat supper at 10.
My friend thought he would close on
the two-pound-fve job (he Is a hearty
eater, and did SO.
Lunch came Just as they were of
Sheerness. He didn't feel so hungry as
he thought he should, and so contented
himself with n bit Of boiled beef and
some Strawberries and cream. He pom
dered good deal during the afternoon,
and at one time it seemed % HIM that
he had been eating nothing but boiled
beef for two weeks, and at other times 1t
seemed that he must have been living on
Strawberries and cream for years.
Neither the beef nor tho strawberria
and cream seemed happy, cither-.seemed
disconnected like.
At they came and told him dinner
was ready The announcement aroused
no enthusiasm within him, but no felt
that there was some OF that two-pound-
five TO be worked of, and he held on 10
ropes and things and went down. A pleas
ant odor Of onions and hot ham, min
gled with fried fish and greens, greeted
him at the bottom q the ladder. and
then the steward came mp with an oily
smile, and said:
what can get you. sir?'
Get me ont % this was tho feeble
reply.
And they ran him up quick. and
propped him over 20 leeward and left
him.
For the next four days he lived n sim
pie and blameless life on thin captains
biscuits q mean that TN biscuits wers
thin, not the captain and soda water;
but toward Saturday he got uppish and
went in for weak tea and dry toast, and
on Monday he was gorging himself on
chicken broth. He left tho ship on
Tuesday, and as 10 steamed away from
the landing stage be gazsd after 10 re-
gretfully.
There she goes, he said, "thers shs
goes, with e worth II food on board
that belongs 70 nae. and that haven't
had"
He said that IL they had given him
another day lie thought be could have
put il straight.
II is a curious fact. but nobody ever is
sessick-on land At fea you como
across plenty II people very bad indeed.
whole boat loads u them but I never
met a man yet. on lanI. who had ever
known AZ al what 80 was % be seasick.
Where the thosands upon thousands a.
bad sailors that swarm IN every ship
hide themsslves when they are on land
Is a mystery.
For my=eH have discovered an er.
cellent preventive against s~aaiczuess IN
balancing my5es. ION stand In the
center q the deck. and a. The ship
beaves aud pitches Jon move your body
about, s0 a. ~ keep 10 always straight
When the front a. The stip rises you
lean forward til tho deck almost
touches your nose. and when ia back
end gets up yo1 lean backward This IL
al VERY well for an boar 0rtwo. b1: you
cant balance yyHrssf f9r week.--
jerome X. JeromeH Three Nea Ia
Boat
His Advice.
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