Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-10
SEA-GOING FOB HEALTH.
HOW TO GET READY FOR 1T AND
WHAT TO EXPECT.
Things Worth Considering Before n Start
Is Made-Tako n Sailing Ship II
You Want Complete Change
OF Surroundings.

IL CHuDRo Can De more reuully InduO ny
an ordinary citizen than by going to
sea in sailing ship. To go to sea in
a passenger-carrying steamer is not to
make q long voyage. Moreover, the
change in diet is not apt to be worth
mentioning, because passengers on
steamers commonly live higher than
they do at home.
The first thing then, for a man to
do who wishes to make long sea voy-
age is to decide how long a voyage he
should make, and then choose a des-
tination.
The cost of such trip will vary
with the tastes or desires of the pas
senger. He can go for nothing, very
often, il he will work his passage as a
sailor, and if the ordinary shore citi-
zen wants change in life so complete
as to be absolutely stunning let him
try working his passage around the
Horn, for instance. But where he
would be real passenger the cost in
sailing ship can be put down at from
81 to So day for the passage.
For clothing, the passenger can
carry such old suits as he has on hand,
no matter how old or worn out they
may be. The typical skipper mends
his sea toys with palTn needle and
sail Irvine, and eats mustard on his
duff; he will not care how the passen-
ger dresses; neither will the passenger
care after day at sea- 1t need
scarce be said that suit to be worn in
port should be carried, and the passen-
ger will make no mistake if he carries
the best he has, no matter where he is
going. For underwear woollen goods
and plenty of them may be needed
either at the start or on returning,
winter or summer, cold gale may
give one chill off New York or any
northern port.
Certain other things should be in
cluded in an outfit. Vaseline is one
thing, and adhesive plaster another.
Long fish lines for deep sea fishing
might come handy in a calm or for
catching gulls, were the passenger so
disposed. A dozen or two wire screw
hooks will come handy. Above all
things an abundant supply of light
reaGing matter is needed, and for this
no better or cheaper choice can be
made, perhaps, than stack Of old
numbers of any first-class magazine.
These cost ten cents each at n second
hand book store.
When all the preliminaries are over
the passenger goes down 20 the pier
and climbs on board and carries his
outfit into the cabin. He will find tho
cabin door or hatch, as the case may
be. pretty low, so that he will smash
his derby several times going in and
olt before he gets accustomed To it.
The stateroom will be found narrow.
and so will the bunk. The light will
be dim, but not frequently this will be
an advantage; he will be less likely to
see the cockroackes and the soiled
condition of the walls. He may even
want to go to shore and buy a
curtain to hang over the port that
gives him light, and sometimes he
will want a curtain for the bunk as
well. He will put up the wire hooks
and hang up his clothing. and stow his
reading matter in the bunk under his
mattress. Then he will go out on
deck and watch the seaman get the
ship to sea. They will heave up the
anchor, perhaps singing shanty as
they do 80; they will make fast a
hawser to big timbers while tug
takes the other end of it; they will set
the sails, and away she goes. 1t will
be most novel and interesting OK
perience to the traveller.
But once outside the trouble of the
passenger will begin. He will he sea
sick, of course, but that il of little
account, even though it last week
1t will do him good. But there are
other things to worry him. For in
stance, he is now shut up in very mar
row limits with a set of men who are
accustomed TO q manner of life wholly
different from anything he has ever
seen. They are men who have
'crawled in at the hawsepipes and
worked their way aft, +" have been COM
mon sailors before they were officers,
and still have the habits and tastes of
common sailors. 1t must not be
thought that all ship officers come
under this description, but majority
of them do. Yankee shippers arc
more frequently gentlemen-men OF
good habits and breeding-than those
OF any other nationality, but the pas
senger is pretty sure to find things roll
his stomach when at the table other
than the motion of the ship. The
table manners of the average sailing
ship cabin are on level with those TO
be seen the cheapest New York res
taurants.
The Captain and the mates will
almost invariably try to make life
pleasant and agreeable for the passen-
gers; they find life ut sea monotonous
and lonesome and are glad to have
another kind of man along. They are
not unlikely TO be oppressive in their
lzindness-to interfere with. the passen.
ger when he wants to be alone. Should
the passenger take dislike to his com.
panions because of their characteristics
his life will be burden. for there Is
no escaping them while the voyage