Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-08
WIVES OF CAPE COD.
women Who Sailed the Seas With Ihei,
Husbands.

| WorIu III her husbands Yacht IL lnofcsl
upon us very much travelled parsonage.
but there are captains wives down herr
who have been around the world two or
| three times and whose adventures wonld
| fill volume.
Hardly avillage on the cape but has ons
or more, sometimes half a dozen, of these
captains wives who have made one or
| more voyages to Japan and China and
| have been able 10 discuss the Chinese and
Japanese war with easy familiarity. Many
of them are widows now who lost their
| husbands by shipwreck on trip when the
captain, with, it would seem, almost a
| foreknowledge of coming events, had re-
| fused the wife's plea TO sail again with
him. In the paliny days of Cape Cod ship.
ping every captain took his wife on at
least one voyage, most of them on long
trips, lasting year or more. The cap
tain's wife often became the good angel of
the fo'cas lie. She doSed tho crew when
they were i'll, wrote letters homo for them,
looked after their morals and on Christ
mas saw they all had some gift. Others
lived in an aristocratic way, and never
interested themselves in the affairs of the
crew, never went into the galley to arouse
the ire OF the cook, never went forward
either on deck or below. Such women had
piano aboard, with library and house
hold pets, and devoted their time TO fancy
work.
When their sailing days were over, the
wives came ashore TO their native villages
and settled down TO lead what to outsiders
seems tame existence In almost every
village from provincctown to Fairhayen
there is some old CAPTAINS wife who hos
no one OF her own TO LOOK after She moth
eFs the Whoic Village' EVerybouy sends
Tor her iirst on all occasions OF JOY and woe,
OF ne ana death.
when she Is approached rightly and the
mood moves hef, she Delights the younger
generation with tales oil shlpWreck ana
storm, OF aoVenture%l III emma, Japan, IN
dla anu many strange country barely
Known even now TO the civilized world.
But best OF all are the stories that are IL
iustrateu py some ola SIX gown or piece OF
antique lewelry, ian or handkerchief or
shaWl rom lnola, such as Queen Vic
'oria mas maze famous rs bridal glfts.
Az inc summer homo or captain and
MIS-. ueotSe AuhU at ohathah IS an Illus
tr"'loh tHa1 never lifils TO satisfy. 1t Is
foP' IN winter fop liFes with ms mis-
trcSs ana captain Lunt IN East Boston,
IN summer ne comes TO chatham, where
MS dogshlp passes mighty respected exist
ehce' lanpered ana hacking nothing that
so olSiiliieo ooS can desire. Pop Is
nero among inc rest OF the dogs In Chat
nam because nc mas not only been great
.f"Neicr' put No mas had thrlIiing escapes
irolii u''lSor ny sch
captain LuilI mas pecn q famous Cape
Goa captain ana fop $ mistress sailed fer
years. us niahy as ~, win her husband
wherever 'he snip Went. Shc Is very
handsome Wh1e haired woman, very at
trac'lNe ana refined. Sho sailed around
the world I'VE times IN her husband snip,
lnauc several voyages to China and crossed
'he equator 80 tihes'
for 'ne last llVe years Oh hcr sailing Mrs.
Lunt lhaue Hcr nome on board the snip
ohl'eu states. Shc mad all tho refine
ihcl'S vi a nome apout neral always mad
soNcrai pe.s apoaru. III was over ten years
ago 'hat inc captain OF INC snip signed in
LiVerpool Tor cargo OF Lancashire coal
Willch was 10 go around cape Horn and
across 'he racine ocean TO emma. One OF
.hose mysterious something's with which
cape Goa men ana women are so familiar
YET never attempt to explain, lmpellcd the
captain not 10 sign Tor his wife. The cap
tam Wlle uiuh L ike IL, but she always
peiieNeu that her husband Knew best how
70 run ms snip. % tho United States sail
g away carrying the captains wifo's
pMno anu an her DAINTY belongings in its
capih. linen thcre We're bcr pets, consist
ips Oh IaVorlte cat, n canary blrd and
uog. but the captain wife sailed for
New YORK ny steamer came to Cape Cod,
ana about the Iitieth day went to Boston
10 engage Sleeping ear section for her
"TRIP across the continent to San Francisco,
"here she was TO meet the ship. In the
street she read on bulletin board, "Ship
ohiteu states burned at sea and ali on
ooaro lost.
oh me thlrty-s'Hth cay after That news
came that inc captain and crew had been
taken OH tho burning snip near tho strait
Oh hagcilan by British bark and were
sue MIS- Luii1 was 700 happy upon learn
ing OF DEE heSpai.u safety TO mourn very |
nara ior he' pets Dut me InourninS wasn't |
necessary ater al, lor the sailors had |
'no'i,5ht Oh hcf, ana "hch asserting tho |
mp had Drought inc pe's away with them. |
NIthih year aitcr various travels, they |
were an ptck win Inelr mistress. The |
C'tt tilne D'ltk HFSU. Inc uoft arrived next, |