The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-08-11

DOaru mao Deen served, L began to
observe: First, that the ship was
moving; second, that the movement
of the ship was in direct, almost tel
egraphic, communication with my
digestive organism; third, that the
ship, being an old traveller, was un-
affected by the movement of her
whole organism, while L, being a
young traveller, was destined to learn
the act; and before my fourthly was
well formulated | began my first
lesson. l walked calmly (?) to the
rail and looked at the blue waves in
tent!y for few moments. ASH did
so certain facetious members of the
party began trying to recall a GER
tain fine poem, which, when recalled,
ran something like this:
"She is standing by the rail,
She is looking very pale!
Is she looking for a sail?
NO-she's not!
She's her fathers only daughter,
Casting bread upon the water,
In way she hadn't Oughter-
That's whatp'
By this time | was in better health
especially as an old lady near me as
act by feeding the poor fish. But
the lesson continued, and I an
nounced TO my friends that having
rushed around cons iderably while
in New York, felt much WEAKNESS
of body and would retire to my state
room for the afternoon, land rest. The
announcement was received with
plying smiles and hopes that |
would find myself much refreshed
by the time for the evening meal
By exercising great will power | ap.
peared at the evening meal, falter
ing in gait, but firm in purpose. NV
appetite was gone! Others around
me were not wearing their wonted
smiles, only CHASTITY grins, ghosts of
the genuine smiles that had wreathed
their faces only few short hours
before. Every delicacy was tempt
ingly served, the stewards were
fiendishly attentive, but all situa-
lions have climax, and without
any preliminary remarks arose and
lett the table. Let no one fancy
when he steps aboard an elegantly :
| appointed ocean steamer and sits
down to a ten course dinner that the
authorities are exciting themselves
30 procure every comfort for him.
Not So. The scent of the food hast
ems his downfall, and so far from re.
Ginning upon the cushioned seats of
the salons, he would give the price
of his passage to be allowed to re-
main on deck during the entire
night. But this is quite impossible.
After leaving the table retired to
private life," and settling myself in
my narrow state-rOOEl berth L argued
thus: Abandon yourself to the stu
alton; If this is part of the voyage,
get the best out of it. Who kno VS.
but it may be the most valuable
feature of the program? But in a
short while arguments were cast
away, with everything else, and sea
sickness, dire and awful, fastened
upon me. In this advanced age
when, for penny in the monograph
slot, you can hear the "Ravings of
Mccullough" small use to describe
the sensations of the sea- sickness of
Miss Nobody from Nowhere, with
the inadequate medium of pencil
and paper. 1t would take a steno-
grapner, typewriter, monograph,
kodak and Puck's best illustrator to
put the case before, you in a salts.
factory manner. Some people were
delirious from the malady. [ was
not one of the fortunate ones. But
| shall not be so ungrateful that
can not recount my mercies. At last
there came sleep-sweet sleep-and
what may seem strange Is that the
sleep was attended by the sweetest
dreams mortal ever had-nOt of
my beautiful mother, my worse than
beautiful father, my many loved ones
and dear friends-nOt though all
these had flied my waking hours
and furnished food for sweetest day
dreams. The fact is / dreamed ]
was on dry land. 1 even dreamed
that the cry came in the still watch
es of the night, "The boat is sink
ing! !" and being half aroused to con
seriousness, consequently seized by
the sensations" again, L cried
aloud, Let her sink, il she will only
strike bottOml" hut fate was kind
NOT alone in the matter of pleasant
dreams, The following day L wa,
able, by sheer will power, to come
up on deck, pale but triumphant!
The sea is the incarnation of thu
law of compensation. After few
days of cOnvalescence l am now OF
my "sea legs" as the sailors say, anC
again l maze excuses for not de
scribing my sensations. Each sou
who crosses this broad Atlantic II
entitled to his own secret Civilizations
for such they truly are. There arr
those who havecTo-sed its bosom 81
many times, for such various pur
pUses, that the passage Is only al
, annoyance. But not so for Us WHIT
. have longed for the privilege ant
| have at last gotten our hearts desire
! And once on your "sea-legs," witt
the ocean and sky and sun by da!
aud moon by night, sOrdid indeed