Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-09-12
WIVES OF CAPE COD.
WOMEN WHO SAILED THE SEAS with
THEIR HUSBANDS.
Many Went Around the World Several
Times--some Saved From shipwreck by
Presentiments - The Wife Of Captain
George Lnnt---A Honeymoon Mt Sea.


Presentiments - The Wife Of Captain
George Lnnt--A Honeymoon ut Sea.
Cape Cod Is the home Of the pioneer
yachtswomen OF this country The society
woman who has made a trip around the
world IN her husbands yacht IS looked
upon as very much Travelled parsonage
but there arc captains wives down here
who have been around ths world two or
three times and whose adventures wcald
I'll q volume.
Hardly avillage on the cape but has ono
or more sometimes half dozen, OF these
captains wives who have made ono or
more voyages 20 Japan and China and
have been able to discuss the Chinese ana
Japanese war with easy familiarity Many
OF them are widows now who lost their
husbands by shipwreck on trip when the
captain, with, IL would seem almost n
foreknowledge Of coming events, had re-
fused the wife's plea to snil again with
him In the palmy 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
tho fo'cas'le. She dosed the crew when
they were Ill, wrote letters home for them.
looked after their morals and on Christ
mas saw they all had some gift Others
lived in an Gristocratio way and never
Interested the. selves in the affairs Of the
crew, never went into the galley to arouse
tho fro 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 lend what to Outsiders
seems u tame existence. In almost every
village from Pruvincctown to Fnirhnven
there Is some old captain wife who has
no ono Of her own to look after She moth.
crs tho whole villngc Everybody sends
for her first on all occasions Of Joy and woe,
of life and death.
When sho Is approached rightly and tho
mood moves her, she delights the younger
generation with tales Of shipwreek and
storm, OF adventures In China, Japan, In
din and many strange country barely
known oven now to the civilized world.
But best of all arc tho stories that aro II.
Illustrated by some old silk gown or piece OF
antique jewelry, fan or handkerchief or
shawl from India, such AZ Queen Vic.
TORN has made famous ~ bridal gifts
Al tho summer homo " Captain md
Mrs. George Lunt ut Chatham IL an Illus.
tration TINT never fails to satisfy IL Is
Pop. In winter Pop lives with his mis-
tress and Captain Lint In East Boston.
In summer no comes to Chatham, where
his dogship passes u highly respected exist
ence, pamporod md lacking nothing that
so dignined dog can desire. Pop IL u
hero among tho rest Of the dogs In Chat.
ham because he has not only been great
traveller, hut hn hns had thrilling escapes
from danger by sen,
Captain Lunt has been famous Cape
God captain and Pops mistress sailed for
years, as many as l2, with hor husband
wherever tho ship went, Sho IL very
handsome white haired woman, very at
tractive and refined She smiled around
the world five times In her husband i ship,
made several voyages to China and crossed
the equator B6 times
For tho Inst flye years OF hor sailing Mrs.
Lunt made her home on board tho ship
United States Sho had all the refine
monts Of homo about heran always had
several pots aboard II WINS over ten years
ago that tho captain Of tho ship signed IN
Liverpool for u cargo Of Lancashire conl
which was to go around Cnpo Horn and
across the Pnclio ocean to China. One Of
those mysterious something's with which
Cnpe Cod men and women are SO familiar,
yet never nttompt to explain impelled the
captain not To sign for his vito. Tho cap.
tain'a wife didn't like II, but she always
believed that her husband know best how
to run his ship. So tho United States snil
cd away, carrying tho captains wlfos
piano and NIL hor dainty belongings In It's
cabin, Then thore were hor pots, consist.
Ing Of % favorito cat, u canary bird aud II
dog, But the captains vito sailed for
Now York by steamer, onmo to Cape Cod,
and about tho tlfteth day went TO Boston
to engage sleeping chr section for hcr
trip across the continent To San Francisco,
where she was to meet tho ship, In the
street she read on u bulletin board, "Ship
United States burned Mt sen and all ON
board lost, :"
On the thirty sixth day aftor That news
came that tho captain and crow had been
taken Off the burning ship near tho strait
Of Magellan by n British bark and woro
safe Mrs Lunt was too happy upon learn
hard for hcr pets, but tho mourning wasn't
necessary after all for tho sailors had
thought of her, and whom dcscrtiny tho
ship had brought tho pets away with them,
within year, after various travels, they
were all back with their mistress. Tho
cat came back first, Tho dog arrived next,
and II was almost year before tho sailor
who had tho canary got II to Mrs, Lunt
Tho cat, after surviving tho fro Mt sea
and being rescued, d,od, Tho canary fol.
lowed the eat but Pop lives on. lilo Is he.
coming pompous and oorpucnt but he IL
pnmpered To his hearts content, and when
Pop follows tho cat and canary ho Is sure
OF u gorgeous funeral His mistress has
never Como yoyagIng since. and no one
would Imagine from any tendency to talk
about her years atloat that she had over
set foot In n foreign country,
There Is u captains wlfe living ON tho
cape who went on her hone, In hcr
husbands ship There was shipwrcok,
and the calptain, his wife and crew escaped
Ia boat dnd were driven ashore on DIES
ert island Natives on another island saw
the wreck go ashore, padded over when
the storm went down, and discovering the
captains party carried them In their
canoes back to their own island There
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