The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-19


sional fakir to the blush. On one
voyage the sibyl told me that I was to
have four wives and be the father Of
nine children. On the way back to
Liverpool there was another palmist
girl, and she told me that I was to
marry for love, be left widower early
in life and spend the rest of my child
less days in pining faithfully for the
lost one. I didn't tell her anything
about my second wife and four chill
dren in Liverpool. and T didn't give
her away to the other passengers who
aocked around her all day.
Another distinct type is the re-
turning Cook tourist, who has done
the whole continent of Europe and
touched Africa all in six weeks. This
person talks learnedly of midnight in
the Coliseum, the color effects of
Algiers, the beer gardens Of Germany,
the beauties Of the Louvre, the gran
derr of the Jungfrau, the beef eaters
Of the Tower Of London, the odors Of
Stamboul and the miseries of the
English Channel all in one breath.
He Or she could give Bayard Taylor or
Richard Burton pointers in the ac-
quisition Of mysterious tongues, and if
they are Of a poetic turn Of mind their
disquisitions are thickly sprinkled
with quotations from 'Childe Harold
and Robert Browning.
s;Then there are, of course, the mar
ried people who travel in pairs. It
doesn't take much experience to detect
that certain loving couple are going
to Europe on their wedding tour.
There is look of newness about a
bride and bridegroom that is apparent
to eyes less experienced than the cap
tain's. He knows better than any
body else, though, the various stages
that the pair will go through during
the weeks voyage. When they are
seasick they are the funniest.
L believe that every thoroughly
seasick bride hates the sound
Of her new husbands voice, with his
continual solicitations for the privi-
lege Of bringing her cushion, boul-
lion or smelling salts. When they
get over being sick, though, they
begin to haunt remote corners of the
ship, when they can have sort of
semi privacy, and there they gaze into
each Others eyes and slyly hold hands
under the convenient shelter Of a rug.
Bridal couples don't generally make
many acquaintances among the other
passengers; they have to be urged
even to attend the usual concert for
the benefit Of the Seamen's Home.
/ suppose the sea takes. on more
beautiful color for their especial bene
fit and perhaps the wind blows more
softly on them than it does on the
other passengers, but I have found
that brides and bridegrooms are not
popular on shipboard.
Different from the bride is the en-
gagged girl travelling without her fance.
I can spot her at once, because for the
first day or two if she is able to be
about she spends two or three hours
in the forenoon alone in the saloon
writing faithful report of all the
stages Of her loneliness and sorrow at
being separated from him. About the
third day out, though, she seems to
notice things. and before the end Of
the voyage she is promenading the
deck morning and evening with one or
another Of the young men passengers
or sitting with them in neighboriDg
steamer chairs engaged in long heart
to-heart talks about her fayorite poets
and novelists, while the time spent
alone in the saloon writing to him
grows shorter and shorter each day.
'sThe girl who gets the least fun
out Of an ocean voyage is the aristo-
cratic girl who is travelling with an
oyeralert and exclusive mother. She.
can be seen any day standing by the
rail in the shadow of her mamma,
gazing out of the corner Of an envious
eye at the jolly and less carefully
chaperoned young woman who has
made the acquaintance of the hand
soonest man on the ship and is prom
enading briskly up and down the
deck, regardless of other less fortunate
mortals.
"Then there is the man with more
money than brains, who has been
everywhere for the mere satisfaction
of saying so, but who doesn't know a
thing about any place he has visited
except the name of the largest and