The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-24
CARRIE CARELESS
TALKS ABOUT sAILoRs AND TELLS
WHY WOMEN LOVE THEM.

Great Pleasure OF flirting in the
Captains Cabin - Forbidden Fruit
Gives an Additional Charm-Lost q
Leg but Got a son-Soms Women
Who Wore Sailors Clothes
(coirr0ht.)
NEw York, July 23-Among the numer.
Gus letters with which am favored every
week by readers Of these articles, there was
one the other day which contained a request
that should furnish some explanation for
the very marked prediction manifested
by our sex for naval officers and sailors, for
ships, aud, indeed for everything connected
with seafaring life. The question Is not 90
sassy to answer as it appears at first sight.
Thai our lsanings toward naval me- are Of
q more pronounced character than toward
members OF any other profession is unde-
niable. To be convinced thereof, IL Is only
necessary to witness the spectacle presented
bv g dance or q ball at which the masculine
element is represented not only by civilians,
but also by men belonging to the military
aud naval services. Notwithstanding tba
suparior brilliancy of tue army uniforms it
will be fouAd that it is the sailors who invsriN-
bly, carry off all the prizes, who score the
greatest successes and on whom we bestow
our most gracious and captivating smiles.
Until the q estion was put 20 me the other
day, confess that l had never attempted
in any way Co account for this preference,
to which too, confess myself guilty.
One of the reasons | suppose is that sea-
faring men impress US with the idea that
they possess the quality IL manlinsss,
energy and courage developed in the
highest degree. There are no qualities
that appeal so strongly 20 the feminine
mind as these. What wonder then that We
shoul feel particularly favorably disposed
20 q profession in which these qualities arc
more Indispensable than in y ether En-
Terminate men are. alas! to be found in large
numbers among oivilans There are mill
tary men, too, who are deficient In mAnli-
ness, especially 10 foreign armies. But
who, either in the new world or ths old, has
ever heard of an effeminAte sailori such a
thing is absolutely unknown.
Another reason why we love seafariug
men is. perhaps, because they never remain
long enough to admit of their society com.
menolng 10 pail Upon US. The are here
to-day and gone tomorrow, and there
fore we are obliged TO convey to
them our sentiments of good will
in larger doses thsH we should do
If We were allowed more time for the pur-
pose. Then, too, the absence of the naval
men on cruises has the effect OF rendering
in their admiration for us than the ordinary
landsmeu They have none of that biAss,
nil adDltrdTi love, which 30 many of the
latter affect. There is a fresh ness and e.
abOut them which contrasts in a striking
manner with she species Of mental and ply
steal languor which dist guish the young
man OF the present day, no matter whether
civilian or military, and the attention Of q
man belonging to the sssfaring protest. q
IA u1ueh rba GAma hraoiuU AfFarH uuon ma
as an invlgoradng. fresh and health bearing
breeze.
OF ships we are fond-I mean warships
In Observation-Disclosures we know shat our
presence on board is, strictly speaking,
against the rules. The pie lsure Of pacing
the decks Of a cruiser, or Of flirting ia some
corner of the captains cabin, possesses all
the priceless SAVIOR 4 for uiddsu fruit The
regulations of every navy Ia the world
strictly forbid our being on board at sea
and discouutenance our visits even when
the ship Ia IN port.
Like every law or prohibitory meayure
aimed by man against US. the regulations
destined TO prevent our presence on men-ot-
war ts more honOred by breach than by OBJ
servance. One Of the most notable cases Ia
point occurred some years ago at Yoko-
hama, where an American squadron was
lying at anchor at the time. One day q
United States cruiseer entered the port to
rejoin the flag and great as the horror Of
the admiral in command and / may add
the amusement OF every odY else TO OBJ
serve through the telescope that there was
number of artio es OF Enthusiastically fsml-
nine apparel hung out of the cabin windows
@ dry In the most obstrusivs manner
possible. On inquiries being made it turned
out that the captain had not only his wife,
but also bis daughters on board with him
In the British navy, where the regulations
against women on shipboard are oven more
stringent, II possible, than in that of the
United States, instances whore the rule has
been set at naught abound. Thus, bluff
old Admiral Ayscougn, who died only few
years ago, was born on boari her majestys
ship Swan, IN the hight OF desperate naval
action fought by his father, Capt. John
Ayscough, who. though he gained q son,
lost leg in tue engagement As in the
lawless past, 80 also ia the present times DO
captains in the British navy take their
wives and daughters for pleasant little
cruises, especially when their ships happen
to be on distant stations; aud the fair sex is
still we'll represented all dav long on every
queens ship when In port often TO the great
Inconvenience OF the service
On at least two occasions it has been the
admiras themselves who have rendered
themselves guilty, involuutarily it is true,
OF ATTRACTIONS OF the rule against women on
shipboard. Thus when the channel SQUAD
ron was lying off Ringstown, q year or
two ago, ball was given b ard the flag
ship. During the entertainments a fleros
and sudden gale sprung up, and tho admiral
mistrusting the anchorage, Immediately
carried the squadron out to sea. During the
next forty-eight hours that followed every
cabin in the great lron-clsd had G. be turned
into hospital for seaslck Irish ladies'. A
similar incident took place last year during
the naval festivities at Portsmouth, in con-
nection with the visit OF the French feet.
Among other admirals who have set an
example of diso edisnce TO the rule against
women, ~as the famous Lord Colin wood,
who permitted a pretty young widow
named Mrs.. Grant to act for three years
as purser's steward on board his flagship
Admiral Lord Wi liam Talbot had mis- lille
Ultimate daughter acting as cabin boy on
board the ship which he commanded as
captain in the battle Of Trafalgar. There
is not a single officers mess room Of the
Royal Marine Corps OF Great
Britain which doss not possess a por-
trait Of the famous hannah smell, who
enlisted as a marine, served for many years
as such d was repeatedly wounded. She
became q sailor and did duty as such with
the British feet cruising IN the East Indies.
She even under went a dozen lashes with the
"cat" on the charge of having stolen a shirt
belonging to the first lieutenant, an offsuse
OF which she was subsequently proved in-
nocent On h1ally retiring from the service
she was granted by the British government