The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-31
INTERESTING TYPE.

Though the seaman always has a soft
spot in his heart for lovers, they are not
nearly as interesting to the student of
human character as some of the other
types of ocean travelling The captains
bete noir Is the man with the weather.
beaten face who SENS to be crossing the
sea with the sole purpose of watching
the log and giving the captain advice
as to the best way of sailing the ship
If the log posted up at noon on the main
compan1onWay shows ten miles less than
schedule time the self-appointed advis-
er seeks out the captain and suggests
hauling up the sheets. Snubbing has
no erect on him. He haunts the foot
OF the stairs leading to the bridge as
If 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 well when everybody else on
board Is helpless and ILL., and he expati-
ates eloquently on his theory of eating
as much as possible on all occasions as
| a neVer-failing preventive. He is particu-
larly vivid when picturing the joys of
beefsteak and onions to pale and squeam-
| 1sh 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 pair of
generally
| plain otherwise, but the happy combina-
ton of a rather short skirt and a windy
deck give her 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 fail
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 the
| skirt away from the other trim little an
| l1le. The prettiest girl the ship isn't
| in it with this girl as far as the young
men are concerned.
SHE READS THE PALMS.
I'm marked contrast to the girl with
| the feet is the amateurish paImist She
is generally pretty girr, with melting
| soulful eyes and white hands Her nails
! are always manicured to the queens
| taste. She generally begins her opera
tions by reading the palm or another girl
| In some conspicuous position where she
! can be seen by everybody on the ship
| There is something particularly fascinat-
| ing about palmiStry on shipboard
| Whether 1t is because ocean travellers
regard themselves 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 time stinu-
| been able to determine, but the palmistry
| girl is the most popular creature on
| board until she has gone through the
entire list of hands, and on a crowded
ship that process takes several 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 professional fakir to the blush
On the voyage the sibyl told me that 1
was to have four wives and was to be
the father of nine children. On the way
back to Liverpool there was another
pafInist girl and she told me that I was
to marry for love, be left a widower
early in life and spend the rest of my
chiidless days in pining faithfully for the
lost one. 1 didn't tell her anything about
my second wife and four children in
Liverpool, and 1 didn't give her away to
the other passengers who f1ocked around
her all day long.
TOURED EUROPE BY ROTE.
Another distinct type is the returning
Cook tourist who has done the whole con-
tinent of Europe and touched Africa all
in six weeks. This person talks learnedIy
of midnight in the Coliseum, the color eff
fects of Algiers, the beer gardens of Ger
many, the beauties of the Louvre, the
grandeur of the Jungfrau, the beef eaters
of the Tower Of London. the odors of
Saanboul and the misers of the English
channels all in one breath. He or she
could give Bayard Taylor or Richard
Burton pointers in the acquisition of mys-
terious tongues and If they are of a poetic
turn Of mind their disquisitions are thick
ly sprinkled with quotations from 'ChiIde
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
certain loving couple are going to Europe
on their wedding tour. There is a look
of newness about a bride and bridegroom
that is apparent 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. 1 believe that
every thoroughly seasick bride hates the
sound of her new husbands voice, with
his continual solicitations for the privilege
of bringing her a cushion, bouillon or
smelling salts. When they get over being
corners of the ship where they can have
sick, though they begin to haunt remote
sort of semiprivacy and there they gaze
into each others eyes and slyly hold
hands under the convenient shelter nf a