The Portland daily press., 1900-06-16
Joys and Sorrows of a
Sea Journey.
The Maasdam High Roller
Journal Of the Ocean.
Atsen.

May -cbn loJJ.
"There is just one obstacle to our GO
ing" said W. emphatically, looking up
from the pile of pamphlets in which she
was submerged. Each of the thousand
and one booklets bore in large plain type
such headings as "Allan Line, j" "North
German Lloyd" Holland American,
etc. thus enabling our readers to readily
grasp the situation and understand that
a proposed trip 10 the Paris Exposition
was under discussion. II suppose the
obstacle is that miserable root which has
tripped us up in so many of our plans,
remarked +. rather gloomily. Gradually
her countenance frightened as w. con-
,inued, III you will agree to use freely
the little 'hatchet' we both know how to
handle. / believe we can demolish the
root in other words clear away OBJ
stacles, see the Exposition and visit ODER
ammergau." f. jumped up so quickly
the chair fell back deluged with sea liter
atsre, while 1--WE Two cried in unison,
"Our password shall be economy, and
falling on each others neoks we then and
there decided to sail from New York
N1ty Ibtn lOI DoulNHlt oh thC SNNnAhNA
Maasdam of the Holland American line.
Inevitably all our preparati ons recalled
the delightful trip We made three years
ago, when everything was n fascinating
uncertainty with which to become famil
lar. Did you ever realize wherein youth
and first trip abroad are alikeY' queried
w. rather mournfully. Because both
,oc,,r b,,t onoa In N Iifatiu,a anSxUerad
e. with the briskness of young life. But
a second trip as well as age has its COM
pensations, and If we miss somewhat the
glamor of anticipation, we will go, not
as strangers, but as to old friends, and
feeling sure each day will be filed with
fresh delights. The first momentous
question TO be decided after our passage
was booked, was, ''In what shall we carry
our belongings" Experienced travellers
warned us to leave trunks behind, and
carry "hold-alls" We both mad n guilty
remembrance OF two commodious "hold-
alls" securely slowed away in the attic,
which (may Heaven forgive us), with
i'll advised prodigality we had bought
in London. For the benefit of readers
liable to fall into the snare and delusion
that 'hold-alls" are what they are repre-
sented, we say with emphasis, they are
an invention of Satan and the primary
cause of innumerable good Christians
falling from grace" "Why," innocently
inq uired friend, "do they not hold
enough?' We leaned against each other
for support as we feebly whispered,
'TIhat' the trouble, they hold everything
on earth and under the earth" The v
are made of some mysterious material
which gives and gives as you eomplacent-
ly stow away all you possess, from boot
backing to your Paris hat. Alas
too late, you realize you have in your
hands an 'old man of the sea, dis
guised as a hold-all. Heavier and heavier
grows your burden as with clenched fists
you tug it from place to place. mo,
we both gasped at the mere recollection,
1--WE cannot endure another horror of
hold-alls. We will pack steamer trunks"
Every desirable thing ON earth, as well !
as gold, has its alloy, that of trip abroad
being the parting from dear friends. !
Goodbye" holds such terrible possibili- |
ties. 1t was with any but light hearts |
that we left home for New York three |
days before our sailing date. "This
will never do, to be so cast down" and
giving each other severe mental brace |
we began to make the most of our time
in the metropolis. How much there is
to see and hear in great cityi The |
dazzling shops, the life, the amusements. |