The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-27
"TYcHo. Ar THE FAIR.
He Tells Something About Getting
Sea or Lake sick Also.

To the Howard Club-While at the
worlds fair l expected 10 see some
badges OF the club, but didn't see any.
They must have been as scarce as hens
teeth. Still it is only an accident 10 meet
friend or acquaintance there. Even at
the Indiana building where I stayed an
hour or two in the evening and took
lunch about o'clock, / met very few
acquaintance.
found IL 10 be very handy and pleas
ant 70 have our own state building for
place Of rest and luncheon. and where
one meets people from all parts OF the
state. A notable thing is that only a
few persons are TO be seen there more
than three or four days.
While resting one day a thought struck
me as 10 the number Of changes on the
human vistage- Scarcely any two peo-
pie look alike. Allowing the face to be
ten inches high and six inches wide
there are sixty square inches Of the
human face. There are hundreds OF
millions Of people. On these sixty square
inches there are hundreds of millions OF
changes, so we cannot recognize only
those with whom We have become ac-
Guainted. Even strangers do not look
alike. II is wonderful.
The Manitoba exhibit is outside the
grounds. opposite the California building
and on Stony Island-ave You will find
a guide book containing map of grounds,
location OF buildings, very helpful 10 be
had at 10 and 25 cents. There Is a good
opportunity TO study some South Ameri-
can countries by pictures in the gallery
of the government building.
Well did you ever go boatriding and
get sick? / did. and / was sick for a
fact. The experience of sea sickness is
about all the pleasure IL is to me to re-
fleet on the boats voyage. It is not very
delightful though, while a person is
sick "Humphr' says one, that's moth
ing" and guess IL isn't much. People
about the lake regard sea sickness as
very commonplace, and so II is, espe-
cially when fifty or a hundred are trying
TO keep down their breakfast and can't
IT Is really laughable, too. You will al
most laugh when you are sick. / feiCned
laughter between my retching spells
NV "wretched spells" would be nearly
correct. for person feels too wretched
to move hand or foot When I went
over from Michigan CITY to Chicago tbe
lake was very calm, but the day before
returned there was a strong gale and
the lake was quite perturbed. The wind
was about as usual. but the sailors say
the lake remains rough a day after the
storm That was a new item to me hut
i stayed on board just the same Il had
come over all right, 1 thought, and would
make II back the same way. Whoop-la
how I was mistaken The 500 CITY
started out on time and when she got
under way put in her time in a very
fastidiOus manner. She would seesaw
and vibrate. then vibrate and seesayv
Stools. chairs and people were upset pro
mlsciously Everybody laughed and went
merrily on. but IL was short and sweet
as compared with the balance of it Ha
hahi gee whizzl The merry EXPLANATIONS
disappeared as mysteriously as they
came. Pretty soon the deck hands came
along distributing tin buckets for the
convenience Of the people. Nobody asked
what they were for. Ny olfactories "a
well as my optics perceived their use at
distance Of six feet; that Indicated
also that they had been used the dav
before. Don't be backward about IT,"
said one Of the crew as he set a bucket
down near some parties, and I noticed
that no one was backward a few min
utes later. At that time I thought I
would not need one. but later on I con-
Guided 70 take bucket. A young man
near had just delivered his first INSTALL
nent and lent me his bucket Neither
Of US acknowledged courtesies on the
strength OF that bucket.
Presently a sort Of nervous distraction
pervaded the back Of my head and neck
and ! was aware OF coming events that
did not cast their shadows before"
"Gumption Cute" but what feeling II
r. anyhow My nerves proved 10 be dis
loyal and Joined the chorus down the
lire. I msgine IL sounded thus:
"Ah-oo-ah-oo-ah-woo -oo-e-ahkr'
After repeating IL two or three times
suDossed II was ever. but 1t wasn't