The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-22
A SEA TRIP.
Why It Is Inadvisable to Take 1t In
Small Doses.

going to enjoy yourself. You wave an
airy adieu to the boys on shore, light
your biggest pipe, and swagger about the
deck as if you were Capt. Cook, Sir
Francis Drake and Christopher Colum-
bus all rolled into one. On Tuesday you
wish you hadn't come. On Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday you wish you
were dead. On Saturday you are able
to swallow little beef tea, and to sit up
on deck and answer with wan, sweet
smile when kind hearted people ask you
how you feel now. On Sunday you
begin to walk about again and take
solid food. And on Monday morning,
as, with your bag and umbrella in your
hand, you stand by the gunwale, waiting
to step ashore, you begin to thoroughly
like it.
remember my brother-in-law going
for short sea trip once for the benefit
of his health. He took return berth
from London to Liverpool, and when he
got to Liverpool the only thing he was
anxious about was to sell that return
ticket.
It was offered round the town at
tremendous reduction, 80 | am told, and
was eventually sold for eighteen pence
to bilious looking youth who had just
been advised by his medical man to 60
to the seaside and take exercise.
"Seaside!" said my brother-in-law,
pressing the ticket affectionately into
his hand, "why, you'll have enough to
last you q lifetime. And as for exercise!
why, you'll get more exercise sitting
down on that ship than you would turn
ing somersaults on dry land"
He himself-my hrother-in-law-came
back by train. lie said the Northwest
ern railway was healthy enough for
him.
Another fellow l knew went for a
weeks voyage round the coast, and be-
fore they started the steward came to
him to ask whether he would pay for
each meal AS he had it or arrange be-
forehand for the whole series.
The steward recommended the latter
course, as it would come so much cheap
er. He said they would do him for the
whole week at two pounds five. He said
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 light
meat supper at 10.
My friend thought he would close on
the two-pound-five job (he is hearty
eater), and did so.
Lunch came just as they were off
Sheerness. He didn't feel so hungry as
he thought he should, and so contented
himself with bit Of boiled beef and
some Strawberries and cream. He pom
dered good deal during the afternoon,
and at one time it seemed to him that
he had been eating nothing but boiled
beef for two weeks, and at other times it
seemed that he must have been living on
Strawberries and cream for years.
Neither the beef nor the strawberries
and cream seemed happy, either-seemed
discontented like.
At they came and told him dinner
was ready. The announcement aroused
no enthusiasm within him, but he felt
that there was some of that two-pound-
five to be worked off, and he held on to
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 Of the ladder, and
then the steward came up with an oily
smile, and said:
What can l get you, sir"'
"Get me out of this" was the feeble
reply.
And they ran him up quick, and
propped him over to leeward and left
him.
For the next four days he lived sim
pie and blameless life on thin captains
biscuits q mean that the biscuits were
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 the ship on
Tuesday, and as it steamed away from
the landing stage he gazed after it re-
gretfully.
"There she goes" he said, "there she
goes, with 60 worth of food on board
that belongs to me. and that l haven't
had"
He said that if they had given him
another day he thought he could have
put it straight.
1t is a curious fact, but nobody ever is
seasick-on land. At sea you come
across plenty of people very bad indeed,
whole bout loads of them, but l never
met a man yet, Oh land, who had ever
known at all what it was to be seasick.
Where the thousands upon thousands Of
bad sailors that swarm in every ship
aM3e themselves when they aSe on land
is a mystery.
For myself l have discovered an ex-
cellent preventive against seasickness in
balancing myself. You stand in the
center of the deck, and as the ship
heaves and pitches you move your body
about, so as to keep it always straight
When the front of the ship rises you
lean forward till the deck almost
touches your nose, and when its back