Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-27
JULY AND OCTOBER.
Oh, What a Difference in Crossing
the Ocean in Those Months
A HEARTRENDING TALE OF WOE.
The Worst You Ever Heard about Sea-
sickness More Than True,
But TEE FINAL RECOVERY is RAPID
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From 8 knowledge born of experience, L
an prepared to testify that crossing the
Atlantic Ocean in July and recrossing in
October nav be very different voyages, at
least it happened that way with me- And
now in great humility of spirit 1 want to
take back. as ii 1 never said, all those
p-ettv gpeeches in regard to the 'joy of an
endless SAIL" the ''heavenly delights Of
life on the ocean wave" etc. Heavenly,
indeed! IF there is to be found anywhere
on this foot.tool more of the "other place"
Than there is in a few days at sea with old
ocean in one of his tantrums, hope my
lie has not been spared through seasickness
10 find it.
What anv Of the passengers on the
Arizona had ever done wicked enough to
deserve the punishment we got is vet to be
found out. We we're most emphatically in
great disfavor with the elementA Every
trick OF torture known to him was played
upon us and the changes rung with varia-
lions. The entire scale of misery was
thumbed upon our sensibilities from lowest
10 highest kew and back again. Clouds,
rain, fog and storm without and general
of the dav for the third week in last month
on the Atlantic.
Verify the person who has said,
'The worst is never true" had not
been TO sea in a gale; had not
knocked about in a steamer bunk un-
Ill his sides ached and every bone
in his body felt as if broken on the rack;
had not reached that stage in both phys
ical and mental weakness when he would
resistance; he had not yet experienced that
ceaseless, awful sensation produced by
restless ship so akin to the start and stop
Of an elevator; had not felt the bottom drop
out of his stomach and the top fly off his
head at least once every half hour of
miserable three DAYS existence; and had
halIooed New York almost continuously
for the same length of time only to have
Purser Jones send in word to keep on his
boots for if the weather changed we should
reach New York in five days more!
The Worst More Than True.
Ah, moi He had not experienced any of
these casualties in ocean travel or he wonld
have realized that the worst of seasickness
is more than true; and that ''the halt has
never been told" and that one passing
through such iutolerable sickness does not
care to tell the other half-not even though
that one be q woman, SO pIoverbially fond
OF telling.
But sea-sickness does not kill, that is the
worst know about it. Not even a concerted
effort on the part of friends willing to assist
il will kill, otherwise 1 should not now
be giving YOU my experience. Imagine, if
vou can, having reached stage in general
Jyretchedness when Won wondered how you
could ever have found any delight in
living. especially in eating; when you hate
the sound of the saloon piano, which some
one Who should be seasick keeps ceaselessly
humping; when the sound OF happy
voice or sight of smiling faces is
70 YOU what the red rag is to
certain infuriated animal, and these things,
aggravated by the odor of a one-time de-
lightful beverage, which comes from the
coffee room unfortunately too near your
torture chamber. Imagine these annoy
ances and then imagine an irrepressible
Epirit-like Comica, who keeps proVokingly
we'll, coming in to tell you how many good
things thev had for dinner and how she en-
joyed them!
All, Comics, all things shall be forgiven
you, barring your too, too solid appetite
Next comes the kind stewardess, who
seems only to have pulled You through this
far to torture the little remaining life out