Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-19

gorgeous than their own. "I don't blame you, Helep," said the mother with naughty disdain. It showed @ very mean spirit in htn."
 "Mean spiritI" retorted the daughter. writhfng in anger. "George's a hog, That's what he is. shall just order the steward to | pitch them overheard at once. He said I | should have the finest on the steamer-the | brutei This settles him. He'll get his conge | at Liverpool. No-rll cable it from Queens. | townl"
 George was evidently betrothed to this be- | ing. He had only sent her three hundred instead of five hundred dollars' worth of flowers; and had probably gone back to the office, at parting, to cover up the shortage in his accounts. Lucky George, when ths. Queenstown cablegram arrivesi May be he can retrieve himself on the books, and some- time learn to fervently thank God that be did not invest two hundred dollars more of his employers money in flowers this sailing day.
 Two or three meals at farthest sponge the banquet airs from the cabin tables. Fifty plates will suffice for the second day at table
 for breakfast; perhaps no more than twice
 that number for luncheon and dinner.
 White-gloved table stewards, solemn as
 mutes at a funeral, stand idly by for the two
 hours of the double sittings. steadfastly re-
 garding the artistic lights of the gay cabin
 dome; or receiving with stately and compass
 sionate reserve the humble apologies of those
 having sudden engagements in their state-
 rooms or upon deck. The flowers have wholly disappeared from the main tables, and, for courtesy's sake, tarry little Ike shuddering array of hectic ghosts upon the spare tables in the alcoyes, as If each with. cred and trembling bud knew its fate of be- ing tossed into the sea on the morrow. The ships commander, bland as e bartender In port, has hidden himself from view. The | purser's window Is shut as if dramatically II ral ahfnta Innfar haa raffrad habfwb | the strictest interpretation of hours and rales. The chief and assistant stewards, to | whom your great fee has already gone for | choice seat at the table, refuse to recognize you. Your room steward eyes you with a look of sharp suspicion and close analysis. Will you give kim much trouble, and will | you fee generouslyf comprise his uttsrmost interest. But he will permit no early fsmil-
 isrity. The stewardess faunts her white
 capped head, plainly saying, "Thsre gre characters hon this 'ere vessel aside my h'own to sustain, siri" The bostswains, whose frizzled, fatherly faces on the first day gave promise of sea yarns and ocean lore revelations, are stolid as bronxes or brass. The sergesnts at arms and deck stewards
 walk around you, look you up and down, l over and around, fore and aft, cardboard and port, as if to remind you that deck rules are | deck law, sir. The bell boys, those little | dried up old commodores of the passages, library and lsvatories, regard you from be-
 meath beetling brows with savage advance
 protests against possible requests for fayors. Wander where you may on your steamers decks or within her splendid cabins, you find
 but savsgery, selfish preoccupation and mute despair The officers and crew are one and
 all moodiIy recovering from port excesses.
 The few passengers urDn their legs are each
 nursing parting melancholy, figuring upon trip expenses, or contemplating the differ | hatx aaA Id of
 the sea. The predominaiing hosts are in the
 throes of unmitigated, unvanquishsble sea
 sickness. And how 1t levels the proud and
 greatl Look at them sprawliug in their
 chairs, hundreds of them, under the lee
 awnings, hope. pride, scorn, hauteur, allr
 flown like the flush of the shriyeled aowers
 below. That pompous old fellow who can
 draw his check for a cool million, aud who
 on shore, reckons himself boy of forty,
 you know, is stretched there like drunkard,
 holding his two sets of false teeth in his
 neryeless hand with the most familiar aban-
 don. He iecks not those who see; he seen not those who reck. Here is c grand dame,
 as easy a eubiec, of study. Her wig Is dis
 placed; the powder and color have been
 apouged from one side of her face by some
 attentive stewardess; her faces, fiounces and
 silks are dlsheyeled; chs Is snoring, diversi-
 fled by snorts and palateal staccatos. Be. rugged and bejeweled. she seems a sad tra
 vesty on even some giddy "Miss Hsyishsm, escaped from a moldy bridal chamber and this belle's beauty now. >Gsorge, back ther. in New York, would be lucky dog 10 cstct glimpse of her divine face this moment He would wait for no conge from Liverpool Paint, powder and bilgewater are blended into dirty French gray upon her leathery countenance. The fOg has deposited clam my rime upon this. Strands of her now waveless hair are futtering stickily within . her open mouth. Her eyes seem to hay, . gone back into her head sn inch and arr . closed beneath dirty yellow lids. Amid thi , wreck of beauty there is one bit of color It is in her pinky, pointed nose. It woulI have paralyz zed Helen to have wern e twenty five cent bathing hat at sea. So from unde the edge of her twenty-ive dollar hat he sea blistered noee rises rare and red nk . some hectic beacon light looming aboy r drear, dank, dolorous isles. Iu e few day . more the long abused cuticle will peel fror e this little nose in tenacious swirls and curlI and as Helen steps upon the staging at Li' erpool the rude customs inspectors will prt nounce her sn "HiAmerican h'objsck."
 One might fill a book with theee sea trav, e | studies. A good deal besides sicknei [, aud its rank leveling power might be dwe U upon. But the old traveller, and the hr' 2 tripper who is cautious and conservstiv' \ will nsser be tempted into remarks about h
 
 s the Hrat and seconds meals, while the tasl
 of your New York friends champagne Ia ntill sweet on your palate, you are likely s' roar little along thls line. Bat you VI 10 regret it. L.isien to thosc retohing wretoh' ,t | tp their Rtaturaams below. Each ono he IT nung challenge to old Nepiune'a power h Tho little dude has li.ped under hla napkil 'n "I,ying wight dwown on ones backll 10 nausea, Hi allow" Tho Chicago paokc a- loading hi. plate with another swaih of h n own homeless ham. has anor ed, "P.h.' c. Lake Michigan on knock tha nposa of th at sick out our way" The ladies' choru er "Dear me, it isn't possible any one could as i'll on this boat, is ii noWi llhlnk ils !u as too lovely for anyihlugl" The lawyer ls or D. torle about 1t, summing up before an invi' of ble jury with invincible "Now, sirs," aI n- hoary citations and precedenis that seti P. the whole matter. The clergyman, bls lg him for his faith, fancles "ifs all merely ,n matter of the imagination" While the nl ,g with the granite head, brass Jaw and ir, is stomach, closes the diseussion-and ! Id days-by an explosive, "An damned no ts sense, sirl Have stemach of iron like u s, sirl" But they are all done for now. T is dude is developing his "lying wight dsow n- theory; the ladies are gsspingiy ehangi \" their sdiectivee; the packer is comparing | at ptcultaIltics or lakc duu pouu, luc cieIk nd man has a new study of the pleasures of [ D. imagination, and the man with the in of stomach is slipping its cogs as helPlessly of with the ordinsry mortal diaphragm Al is SO 20 the fret days until "the banks" . IT. crossed. If you have luckily had your lit Ter battle at first, you now suffer loneliness al be hunger for society. There is not single in sponsive glesm of compsnionship in a ,t- face aboard ship. You become despers' ,l- You see being in blue and gold away Q .ee forward there. You sidle, slip and sli ,s- along up to it. The being proves to be n- ships officer-frst, second, third, or som .n- where along the line. But it is alive, h he hearty jowls, a pig psunch, and hoping the ed bespeak geniality, you timidly address 1t. ur "Beg pardon, officer, but are these fogs ut ways to be found here on the bsnksf"
 The being is a blue, gold and bronze stat ,fu for long, long time. Finally as you desp eet and are about to turn away, its red head so ice denly turns quarter round, and you involu ed tarily listen for its click. Then its cavel to ous, coral mouth expands frghtfully wh ble the being rosrs,
 a "ow the bloody ell do FIT knowi he doant bide 'eereln
 mt You somehow feel like adjourning yc | 1s st-. rE