Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-25
WakemaD's W)a2deTiQQs
ODD INCIDENTS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL AND
OBSERVATION.

ON the great ocean liners provide an
endless variety OF ludicrous Incidents
because on every steamer passengers to
n large proportion are new to the pccu-
lar and irrevocabe situation; lormllty
can by no means be unintcruptcdly
sustained; individuals, character and
station are brought into close, sharp aud
most striking contrasts: and all social
dislinctions are liable ut any moment TO
total obliteration in the common and
often grotesque misery Of sea sickness.
Two or three meals at farthest sponge
the banquet airs from the cabin tables.
The ships commander, bland as a bar.
tender In mort has hidden himself from
view. The purscrs window ~ shut rs II
Theoretically sealed. The ships doctor
has retired behind the striciest interpte.
,ation of hours and rules. The ehici
and assistant stewards, to whom your
great fee has already gone Tor choice
seat at the table, refuses TO recognize
you. Your room.steward eyes you with
look oil sharp suspicion ana close
analysis. VIII you give him much
trouble, and will you fee generou.ly'
comprises his uttermost Interest. bui
he will permit no earthly familiarity.
The stewardcss llaunls her white capped
head, plainly saying, There are eharac'
tiers hon this ere vessel aside my own
TO sustain, sin" The boalswains, whose
frizzled, atherly faces on the iiFst day
gave promise Of sea-yarns and ocean
lore revelations, are as stolid as bfonzes
or brass
The sergeants.at arms and deck stew.
ards walk around you. look you up and
down, over and around, fore and aft,
starboard aud port, as Il TO remind you
that deck rules are deck law, sir. The
bell boys, those little dried w old com
modores Of the passages, library and
laya,ories, regard you from beneath
beetling brows a. with savage advance
protests against possible requests Tor
iavors. Wander where you may on
your steamers decks or within her
splendid cabins, you find but savagery,
selfish preoccupation and despair.
And how II levels the proud and
great Look at them sprawling in their
chairs, hundreds Of them under the lee
awnings, hope, pride, scorn, hauteur, all,
flown like the flush Of the shrivcied
flowers below. That pompous old Eel.
low who can draw his check for o cool
million, and who, on shore, rcckons
himself boy OF forty, you know, is
stretched there like drunkard, holding
his two sets OF false teeth In his nerve
less hand with the most familiar aban-
don. lie rccks not those who see; he
sees not those who reck. Here is a
grand dame, as easy a subject OF study.
Her wig is displaced; the powder and
color have been sponged from one side
Of her face by some attentive stewar'
dess; her .aces, ilounces and silks are
dishcveled, she is snoring, diversified
by snorts and palateal staccatus.
See this erst peerless New York bellel
Paint, powder and bilgewater are blen-
ded IN dirty French gray upon her
leathery countenance. The fog has de.
posted clammy rime upon this.
Strands OF her now wavcless hair are
iul,ering stickily within her open mouth.
Her eyes seem to have gone into her
head an inch and are closed beneath
dirty yellow lids. Amid this wreck OF
beauty there is one bit OF color. II is in
her pinky, pointed nose. II would have
paralyzed her to have worn IS cent
bathing.hat at sea. So from under the
edge OF her s25 hat her sea-blistered
nose rises rare aud red like some hectic
beacon-light looming above drcar, dank,
dolorous isles. In few days more the
long-abused cuticle will peel from this
little nose In tenacious swirls and curls,
and as she steps upon the staging at
Liverpool the rude customs inspectors
will pronounce her an "H'AmerIcan
h'objeek."