The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-14

There is a fortune and a heroic mar
bic statue, with grateful and laudatory
sentiments carved all over the pedestal
still awaiting the individual who finds
sure cure for sea sickness. Every
spring somebody makes an effort to
secure these riches and honors by fool
ing hopeful and confiding public
with remedy guaranteed to bring
relief, and every year it is proved with
dlsheartening regularity that the anti
dote for NAL de mer is yet TO be dis
covered.
This is what, with many little signs
ana sh1vers, group of women, all
bound out in the next few weeks for
Europe, were discussing over their tea
cups the other afternoon. They were
exchanging advice as to how one can
with the least despair endure a five-day
voyage, and listening with respect to
the girl in the grey travelling gown,
who had crossed the ocean sixteen
times and knew a lot about it. She
first curdled their blood by explaining
that women are and always will ever
be special victims Of the pillows frol-
icksome ways.
WOMAN AN EASY VICTIM.
That is because of their more deli
cate nervous organization, she said,
and because ninety-nine women out
OF hundred who go to sea deliberately
prepare themselves for the worst pos
sibie consequences of a rough voyage.
Very few of them know that it is not
the stomach. but the head, that is so
acutely sensitive to swinging motion,
and that stern dosing beforehand of
ones unoffenGfng liver and stomach
not only does no good, but a world of
harm. Then, too, a woman always
rushes about at the last moment before
sailing, hurries on board with an
empty stomach, invites all her friends
to the dock that she may take a tear
full adieu. Over-excited and exhausted
she naturally comes down with fearful
alacrity and the worst symptoms i'm
med1ately the fist ocean swell strikes
the ships PROV.
Those who do take precautions ordi-
narlly fill a medicine chest with an ar
ray of drugs, carry on board cham
payne and lot of lemons and are all
the more miserable for the sight and
thought of their preparations. Still
there are several excellent systems
| that can be put in train, and if their
working will not quite cure the illness,
the suffering can be admirably miti-
gated.
FOR SEA SICK BRIDES.
Numbers of rich women one meets
on board the big liners either take
special travelling maids with them,
whose chief recommends ton is their
capacity for nursing cases of sea sick
ness, or, like the brides who have set
off this spring for the European honey
moon, engage the services OF trained
nurses. There is nothing these women
think more discouraging and cooling
to the ardor of young husband than
to have a sea sick wife upon his hands,
and woman who Becomes so i'll that
few Spoonfuls of arrow root every
few hours is all the food she can take
pays a nurse to see her through the
dangers of the deep and sends the
min.Stering angel back on the return
voyage. However, we all can't afford
to enjoy the benefits of trained nurs-
ing and in a great degree the intensity
of ones NAL de mer depends on the
cleverness, good nature and unfailing
attentions of the stewardess. If you
know you are going to so down during
the voyage, set aside your biggest tip
for the stewardess and divide it into
| three parts. Give her one-third, on
sailing, q third the second day out and
the balance on landing. Ships with
the cleverest stewardesses are favor
ties among women and there are pos
/ itively princely tips awaiting the stew
ardeSS who will take few courses at
trained nursing and exercise her
knowledge on her patronesses.
| THE EVILS OF NAL DE MER
| Now there never was. a 81 eater error
! innocently believed in than that one is
better off for seasickness. Just so long
as one can staye it off the better one
will be, and if you have never been
/ a he of
can soon be recognized. Usually, the
| first phaze is a lively appetite which
passes off, likely enough before the
| first meal is half over, and then one
rapidly disappears into the dim gloom
OF the state room, where there is weep
ing and gnashing of teeth, not to
speak Of other manifestations equally
painful. A severe headache, vertigo
without nausea, attacks of neuralgia
and painful backache are often enough
| the complaints of women who insist
| they are not sea sick at all and are
even able to be UP at meals. They
have got it, however, only in another
| form and bit of rough weather will
give them the most acute suffering
SMELLING SALTS AND BROMIDE.
But don't believe it's the pitching
and tossing. but the smell of the rub
Der mats That makes me ILL.," inter
| posed veteran of The voyage, why,
! when we went down to inspect our
state rooms last week l had almost
the effect of being at sea in gale and
| know girls who can sail in any
weather, but curl right UP in steam
er. It's the pounding of the machinery
some complain of and the odor of the
engines others cannot endure
Then they ought to carry about bot
ties of the strongest smelling salts
they can find with plenty of ammonia
in them, prescribed the traveller in
the gray dress, have bottle of salts
open in the state room, and when an
attack comes on forbear to take any
sort of opiates. They keep the pain
for time, but eNtort a terrible re-
yenge later on. Persons who suffer
particularly from headache ought tic
have their physicians prepare for them
doses of citrate of caffine and | know
some reliable cases where the ma,
de mer has been held aloof by a faith
full use of bromide. II is taken by a
Doctors prescription for at least three
days before sailing, and then the frs
two days out, It is pretty apt to carry
the weakest vessel through unscathed
l say apt" for really nothing is z
sure preventive, and when everything
one eats refuses to stop in the righI
place, get the stewardess to prepare
little bowl of arrowroct. 1t has won
derful staying qualities even in
storm; cracked ice slipped chip by chill
is next best, when all else fails.
VIRTUES OF FOOD.
Put do remember to keep alway:
experimentally eating. To refuse al
food will only give the seasickness th,
upper hand, and when turn for tn,