The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-12

thankful: going to sea without friends
on the dock, is like funeral without
flowers.
EARLY TO BED SEA SICK.
At 12:45 p. m, we passed Sandy Hook
ightshlp, and the pilot went off. At 1
O'Clock, lunch was ready. The boy accom-
panylng me was impatient to go down,
as he was hungry. There was some de-
lay IN finding our places, and during the
wait, We remarked that the wind was
blowing saVagely, and that there was
considerable motion. Finally we found
our places, and sat down From the bill
OF tare, the boy ordered all sorts of
things, and sent them away untasted:
as Tor myself, I had resolved not to eat
anything. The chairs under us began
sinking so rapidly that we did not over
take them until the ship started on the
upward motion Finally the boy looked
up at me, and said:
eat"
Then We staggered away from the ia
bic, and along the halls, until we reach
ed our room; before we were out of
slSht or land, we were in bed, sea sick.
Sea-siekness is largely matter of
ucally no one is sick on a large vessel,
although there is always motion the
ocean; ship always pitches, however
pleasant the weather
If the weather is bad, the pitching is
violent, and, in addition, there is a roll:
that is the ship rolls from side to side.
The pitching is worst at the extremities:
worst OF Ia baT there E To a1 Is
comfort from the pitching. Some people
DO not mind pitching, but go to bed hur-
riedly when there is heavy rolling, while
others stand rolling, and hasten to their
rooms when there is hard pitching. The
pitching of q ship is regular, whatever
the weather. ship rises and falls about
as regularly as you breathe when in re-
pose: when YOU inhale a breath the proW
rises. as Won axbaie the nrovv eoac d0xE-'
and the stern up, and this goes
throughout the voyage. When the weather
lie "a Chi
seems to fall at times, as if to catch up
with your breathing. used to put my
self to sleep during bad nights by breath
ing with the rise and fall of the ship.
But the roll is regulated by the wind
largely: If you are sailing east, and there
is a strong wind from the southeast, there
will be good deal Of rolling, which is
intermittent: it does not come regularly,
like the pitching.
PITCHING, NOT ROLLING, FEARED.
I do not mind rolling much: it is the
violent pitching that makes me sea sick.
forward in bad weather. my head does
not seem to follow the pillow fast enough,
and when the ship rises, [ meet a head
ache can usually avoid nausea by go
ing to bed, but violent pitching soon gives
me a terrific headache, something never
have on land.
Some people are peculiarly liable to sea-
sickness. am one of them, and do not
sick four out of seven days going,
which was excusable, as the weather was
very rough but coming back. when the
sea was particularly calm, had another
siege although 1 had prepared myself
for the voyage by careful dieting
No two people agree on anything that
| concerns Seasickness. Some say you
should eat very little while at sea. 9th
erS say you should eat as much as pos
| sible. Some say you should keep in the
| open air Others say you should go to
remain there until you are better. And
never knew a. man woman who did not
seem to have a horror of admitting sea-
sickness knew a man on the ship who
| did not appear on deck until the last day.
! but he explained to everyone that he had
not been seasick; Just a bilious spell.
That's what seasickness is: a bilious
| spell. did not meet single person on
| the ship who would admit seasfckness, al
though out of over four hundred first
| cabin passengers, only nineteen were able
was on the 14th day of May. when the
| log book described the weather as a
| t'Whole NE gale, high sea" The waves
swept the decks frequently, and the run
| was only IA miles, compared with SIT
miles the day before 1 understand a
whole gale" to mean about as bad
weather as is usually encountered a sea,
yet the waves did not run mountain
do not believe anyone on board the ship
was frightened in the least, although they
gerous; instead, 1t impressed you as dis
gushing. 1 went on deck several times,
| trying to move about, as I was advised
to do; but it never occurred to me that
! the ship was in any danger: I was mad
because we had such beastly weather,
| The wind was blowing fearfully, and it
was almost impossible to go around the
forward deck: the passengers called such
an attempt rounding Cape Horn Oc-
| casionally man attempted it, and was
thoroughly soaked by a wave dashing
It was during this "whole NE gale.
| high sea- that the ship pitched 50 fright
| fully that the screws occasionally came
! out of the water. You may have seen q
governor belt come off on a steam en>
CINE; then the engine runs away. and
frightens everyone in the building. When
the screws came out the engines ran
away, until the ship pitched the other
way, and threw them back into the wa
ter again: when the screws came out of
the water, the ship was shaken as a dog
l do not fear the sea: simply dislike
it. The captain of the ''Lahn,' on which
I returned, has been going to sea for for
ty-six years, and never so much as had
a finger mashed.
If seasickness could be avoided an
ocean trip would be keenly enjoyed by a
the weather Is bad, practically no one
avoids it I have heard that young peo-
pie are less liable to it than adults, yet
the boy accompanying me suffered as
much as I did.
stand at the rail, and make spectacle
of themselves. You see almost none OF
them: l saw none at all, except once OF
twice when looking down into the steer
age quarter, where / mad no business.
quarters below are so foul that the steer
age passengers remain on deck until a
storm drives them away
But when a cabin passenger becomes
sick he goes to his room, and pours his
sorrows into a special tin contriyyanee
the bed. As a matter of fact few people
Throw up when they are seasick; that
is the trouble: they have an uncomfort-
able load on their stomachs they can not
get rid of I have crossed the ocean foul
times, and have yet to see a cabin pas
senger step to the rail and feed the
fishes, as the funny papers represent then
as doing. The passengers know wher
trouble threatens. and hurry to then
rooms
PAID FOR SEVEN MEALS AND
TASTED.
It is often said that five meals a day arr
, served at sea. There are really seven
That is, you are offered seven. but car
eat all the time, if you want to- thu
| stewards will get you something to ca
at any hour of the day or night. Her
are the seven regular meals:
, l. At 6 to Z O'clock. coffee and a bis
emit in hort 11bt in bN- a ct