Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-09

him. He haunts the foot Of the stairs
leading to the bridge as il pining to
get his hands on the wheel.
Another ubiquitous type is the man
who prides himself on the fact that he
is never seasick. He is aggressively
and provokingly we'll when everybody
else on board is i'll and helpless and
he expiates eloQuently on his theory
of eating as much as possible on all
occasions as neyer-failing preventive.
He is particularly vivid when pictur-
ing the joys of beefsteak and onions
to pale and squeamish ladies who have
managed to drag themselves on deck
after days of misery below stairs.
ION every trip there is sure to be
one girl whose special vanity is a pair
of beautiful feet She is generally
rather plain otherwise, but the happy
combination of a rather short skirt and
windy deck gives her a chance to
display her good points. She wears
the finest of shoes with the highest of
French heels. and it's wonder that
she doesn't fall and break her neck;
but she manages somehow to glide over
the most slippery deck and take her
favorite position. with one dainty foot
slightly elevated on the lowest rail and
the breeze blowing her skirt away
from the other trim little ankle. The
prittiest girl on the ship isn't in it
with this girl as far as the young men
are concerned.
"In marked contrast to the girl with
the feet is the amateur palmist. She
is generally a pretty girl with melt
ing soulful eyes and with hands. Her
nails are always manicured to the
queens tate. She generally begins her
operations by reading the palm of an
other girl in some conspicuous posi-
ton where she can be seen by every
body on the ship. There is some-
thing particularly fascinating about
palmistry on shipboard Whether it is
because ocean travellers regard them
selves as being at the mercy of fate, or
whether the enforced idleness of a
sea voyage makes them glad of any
diversion which at the same time slim
ulates their natural egotism, | have
never been able to determine, but the
palmistry girl is the most popular crea-
ture on board until she has gone
through the entire list of hands, and on
crowded ship that process takes sew
eral days. l have had my palm read
by every amateur palmist that ever
Travelled on my ship, and some of their
flights of fancy would put profession
al fikir to the blush. On one voyage
the sibyl told me that l was to have
four wives and be the father of nine
children. On the way back to Liver
pool there was another palmist girl, and
she told me that l was to marry for
love, be left a widoWer early in life
and spend the rest of my childess days
in pining faithfully for the lost one. |
didn't tell her anything about my Sec
ond wife and four children in Liver
pool, and | didn't give her away to
the other passengers who focked
around her all day long.
Another distinct type is the returning
Cook tourist who has done the whole Con-
six weeks This person talks learnedly of
midnight in the Coliseum, the color effects
of Algeirs, the beer gardens of Germany,
the beauties of the Louvre, the grandeur of
the Jungfrau, the beefeaters of the Tower
of London, the odors of STEAMBOAT and the
miseries of the English Channel all in one
breath. He or she could give Bayard Tay-
Tor or Richard Burton pointers in the ac-
QUESTION of mysterious tongues and if
they are of a poetic turn of mind theri dis
questions are thickly sprinkled with quo
tations from 'Childe Harold and Robert
Browning.
Then there are, of course, the married
people who travel in pairs. 1t doesn't take
much experience to detect that a certain
loving couple are going to Europe on their
wedding tour. There is a look of newness
about bride and bridegroom that is APP
parent to eyes less experienced than the
captains. He knows better than anybody
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 husbands voice, with his continual
solicitations for the privilege of bringing
her cushion, bouillon, or smelling salts
When they get over being sick though
they haunt remote corners of the ship,
where they can have a sort of semi-priva-
cy. and there they gaze into each others
eyes and shyly hold hands under the con-
Nenent shelter of rug. Bridal coup.es
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 Seamens Home |
suppose the sea takes on more beautiful
color for their especial benefit 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 engaged
girl travelling without her fiance | can
spot her at once, because for the first day
or two, if she is able to be about. she