The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-20
I7FF ON THEOCEANFERRY
.ou.erRs FIGHT AND DAMsELs
d." 1IRr FOR SEVEN DAYS.


var,ne for Deck Position or the
Csmosign Tor Chairs our Lips
-. Az Evening Under an Um-
-. Tha Duchess and Little Brook
Ign. .-t.,
--o,,--. July lO.-A weeks con-
--.i,u ~ the row Of dowagers stretched
ont along the main deck Of a steamer Plying
across the North Atlantic ferry is ho 70
nova one TO alternate paroxysTns oil lllr'n
ord ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS because they look
60, melancholy because the original
i,s,jrcts crop out so easily through the
veneer of civilization. In women these In
stincts are-let us say occasionally-selhsh-
ness and garrulity.
Sbinhoard life is not becoming to the sex
which depends for SO much OF Its attract
ivaness On lace and curl papers. Take
a1vav youth. which can sometimes stand
T,itbont the frills and the frivols; toke away
sound sleep, for most women are nervous
on a VOYAGE button up the inquire IN
heavy cloak, tie up the heap in big black
mood or an enveloping veil, stretch out the
rersou on a steamer chair and load IL with
rugs. which you can sometimes tell from
horse blankets by the fact that they are not
strlped, andif mermaid rose from her caves
TO see if there were on board any youth
worth her enticing she would think her task
an easy one as pitted against mortal women.
To a nhilosophic observer the maneuv-
ring for deck positions among the dowagers
is the comedy of the day. The overture is
rIaved every evening at bedtime. Now,
sailor says Mrs. Fatandforty-women
never have individual names for the sturdy
bIue-shirted fellows who so patiently &c
their bidding-''now, sailor, be sure you
nnt nv chair in a good place the first thing
in tho morning, as early as you can tell
which is going 10 be the best side for the
day."
The sailor acquiesces mutely with a de-
snairing sweep of his hand across his fore
head-let it here be recorded that be does
not hitch up his trousers, which have not
had that painful habit of threatening to
come off, SO prevalent among nautical
trousers on the stage-for have not two
hundred and three women already put to
him the same command in the same words,
and does be not know that there are not
more than fifty absolutely impeccable posi-
tions. and will not the one hundred and
fifty-three who find themselves exposed tc
whiffs of cooking from the galleys or &c
cipders from the smokestacks or to fits OF
giddiness from sitting near the rail or to
gusts from sitting almost anywhere, will
they not one and all rise In their dowager-
hood and declare that never again
will they trust the word of sea
mani Truly, it is not the pleasantest
thing in the world to be detailed for
deck duty in the touring season, for there
are not women only to deal with, but also
women's husbands and brothers and sons
who are reused from their maps before the
decks are fairly swabbed down, and sent
out to carry the war into Africa by folding
I'D other women's chairs, and unfolding and
comfortably establishing those of the
women of their own kin. The bolder
female spirits are themselves stirring be-
times, and so well is the purpose of their
activity comprehended that it is impossible
for an Innocent person to show herself
much before the breakfast hour without
being accosted in a somewhat apprehensive
tone, WANT your chair placed, mum" OF
"It'S all right, mum; as soon as the first
officer passes the word we're going to stretch
that awning"
Forty-eght hours out from Sandy Hook
the days that were before we left New YORK
are not, and the days that will be after We
pass the Fastnet are not, and we are in g
little island of time Is this why the tongue
of the dowager who wears diamonds anC
cannot speak passably correct English il
loosened and she prates monotonouslv anc
increasingly from under her many wrap
pings of her horses, her city and country
houses and the charms of her daughters? L
this why long after her seasicknesS ha
vanished she taxes the patience of the decl
steward by ordering dinners Of sever
courses brought on deck, until wearying o.
transporting SOUPS and fish and entrees anC
joints and salads and sweets and fruits anC
nuts and coffee, all washed down will
champagne, he contemplates ruefully hi
piles of dishes and mutters under his breath
Folks that can eat all that stuff oughte
go down after 1t like christians to th'
Saloonr
In this floating village of 1000 souls it i.
pleasantest on the hurricane deck with thu
younger people, in the shadow of the ships
boats, where one contemplates the testoons
of ropes about their gunwaes and think,
how fine it would be to sit at second table
so to speak, at shipwreck and hang on by
that fringe after the boat had all the passen
gers it would carry inside In the long
lazy day one has ample time to choose {
middle loop and mark it reserved" with {
bit of ribbon that the sharks may take frs
those unluckY mortals who cling neares
PROV and stern.
1t is on the hurricane deck that tn,
duchess holds her court. So the LAWYER am
the actor have chriStened her New Yorl
knows the duchess. 1T worships her dim
pies: The duchess is gotten up nautically
In blue. braided and embroidered cor
geously with red. She wears va chting can.
and when the breezes blow she shows very
small russell boots with immensely hicl
heels. She has q steamer chair and hel
mother has another, but the mother get
little benefit from ownership, for possession
Is claimed successfully by the lawyer, tn
actor, the cubs from the military school
tne young engineer from Harvard. thu
shlp'S doctor-why is the ships doctor al
ways the ladies' man among officers?-aut
even by the captain. The doctor tells her hi
oesC story 1t concerns an EngIishman VIII,
GOV both his legs broken in a fall anC
revived the servant who sent for q surgeon
processing to tne end that the doctor NIGH
eev one leg, but that he himself would see Il
1ne otner, and that if the doctors leg 90
ven ven hrst he would pay the bill for boil
1eEs, Dut mat If his leg were the first tc
lever ec1Ver t9e doctor should go without ,
tad 'nilg. VI course such a picturesque tale
nas us proper conclusion in the ront of thf
physician and the triumph of domesti,
9TIisery, but 1t avais its teller nothing
Inc dne engineer from Harvard captures tn,
otL young affections, he wraps her DO,
~ oear fur about her, he holds the fivinf
9 9heets while her marquise ring glitters II
&c sun as she writes letter home. he
To euiieS her tottering footsteps on tbosf
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