Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-11-18
A 5Ek TRIP.
Why Ii Is ins,,lvisabie to Take 1t in
Small Doses.

WHY 1t Is Ins,tlvisabie to Take It in
Small Doses.
A sea trip does you good when you are
going TO have couple of months of it.
but for week it is wicked.
You start on Monday with the idea
implanted in your bosom that you are
going to enjoy yourself. You wave an
airy adieu to the boys on shore, light
your biggest pipe, and swagger about the
deck us if you We're Capt. Cook, Sir
Francis Drake and Chris topher Column
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 a 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 III your
hand, yOu stand by the gIlnwale, 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
| gos to Liverpool the only thing he was
| anxious about was to sell that return
ticket.
It was offered round the town at a
| tremendous reduction, Sd | am told, and
was eventually sold for eighteen pence
to bilious looking youth who had just
been advised by his medical man to &C
to the seaside and take exercise.
s.Seasider' said my brother-in-law
pressing the ticket affectionately into
his hand, why, you'll have enough tt
last you Il lifetime. And as for exercise
why, you'll get more exercise sitting
down on that ship than you would turn
ing somersaults on dry and"
He himself-my n-law-cam'
back by train. He said the Northwest
ern railway was healthy enough TO
him.
Another fellow l knew went for
weeks voyage round the coast, and be
fore they started the steward came t
him to ask whether lie would pay fo
each meal as he had it or arrange bt
| fDrtna1lu Tor Tue Wllblt
The steward recommended the latte
course. as it would come SO much cheal
! er. He said they won d do him for til
whole week at two pounds five. He sal
for breakfast there would be fish, fo
lowed by u grill. Lunch was at l, an
consisted of four conrs IS; dinner at g.
soup. fish, entree, joint, poultry, sala'
sweets. cheese and des sert; and lgl
meat supper at 10.
MY friend thought lie would close {
the two-pound-five job (he is a hear
eater), and did so.
Lunch came just as they were {
Sheerness He didn't feel SO hungry
ne thought he should. and SO content
himself with a bit of boiled beef al
some strawberries and cream. He pc
tlered a good deal during the afternoo
and at one time it seemed to him tn
ne had beenNe eating nothing but boil
beef for two weeks, and at other times
seemed that he must have been living
Strawberries and cream for years.
: Neither the beef nor the strawberr
and cream seemed happy either-seem
discontented like.
At 6 they came and told him DIM
was ready. The ammo uncement aroui
no enthusiasm within him, but he
that there was some Of that two-poul
five to be worked off, and he held on
ropes and things and " ent down. A pie
ant odor of onions md hot ham, m
'ne gled with fried fish and greens, gree
him at the bottom of the ladder, {
then the steward cane up with an {
smile, and said:
s.What can get yt u, sirs'
"Get me out of this" was the fee
reply.
And they ran hi mp quick,
propped him over t, leeward and
him. -