The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-28
MIR. DOOLEY AT SEA.
Van Fletch" Observes Dunne On An
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From the Argonaut
 I have just crossed the Atlantic with Professor Dunne, friend of MT. Dooley and MT. Dooeys friend Hennessy, and am sure that you will be glad to know what he Is like when he Is relaxed. We voyaged on the latest and finest ocean greyhound, the Kronprinz Wilhelm. and had a full and distinguished list of some thing more than 800 cabin passengers, quite a few of whom were persons of worldwide reputation or fame We had the present head of the mighty Wander bilts; the most famous of European ocu- lists, Professor Dr. Haab of Zurich, Switzerland, on his way to be the guest of the American Medical Association at its meeting at Saratoga on June 10; three of the leaders and wheel horses of Chicago's aesthetic activities, and half a dozen striking looking couples who re- mained untitled In steamer rugs during the whole voyage, so that each couple in turn was suspected of being Mime. and M Humbert, escaping from the scenes of their frauds in France and England.
 Professor Dunne Is not troubled with seasickness, and Is an excellent sailor. His everyday and unconscious bearing suggests the most modest of men, and of all the serious persons on board he was the most serious For three days he did not crack smile that I could de- tect, and his conversations were all upon the subject of ancient art and the archae- ological treasures he had found in Italy. His readers will naturally suppose that MT. Dooley would make fun of aesthetic ideals, and play ping-pong with curious "old masters" and with noseless and otherwise mutilated Venuses whenever he got a chance, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Ruskin would have been immediately attracted if they had happened to meet and exchanged condolences relative to art, and Boston opinion would applaud the criticism heard.
 Prof. F. P Dunne, author of the Doo- ley Papers, is a critic and a philosopher of distinguished merit. The charm of the Dooley Papers rests less In the hu- morous dialogue than in their sage treat ment of passing events of human inter- est Nothing was said or done in con nection with the Booker Washington White House dinner episode that molli- fled and hurt sensibilties of the unre- constructed Southerners, and threw oil on the troubled waters Of sectional dis- cord which the incident excited. as did Mir. Dooiey's account of the affair. It raised an irresistible laugh which led to A. hand-shake all around and to the dropping of the subject. In his handling of the Christian Science fad, also he waited until all the symptoms of the case had made their appearance, and then diagnosed 1t so correctly that his medical readers thought he was an M. D., and Christian Scientists thought him one of themselves, so nicely did he state the case in the light of its complex mer- Its and faults. And so 1t is with politics and war and whatever else the witty Professor tackles. Professor Dunne Is decidedly handsome. His face Is broad, with generous Hibernian suggestion, and his eyes are, covered with glasses. The head Is abnormally large and well cov- cred with dark chestnut hair. All the time when he Is not t-smiling one of his catcnlng smiles, He ioohS oo sA Ae "sA~ going to cry.
 Professor Dunne has very sympa- thetic side as might be judged from his work. We had a stiff gale one day, and couple of men were washed overheard and lest. Everybody felt the horror of the loss, for the sailors were lifted off their feet by the waves and cast over the rail into the sea before our very eyes, in as helpless condition as if they had been bound with ropes. But none | was quite so sensitively sympathetic as Professor Dunne. and when 1t came to expressing sympathy in dollars none was more liberal.
 Reference to the deadly force of waves | suggests a remark about the way the new fast steamers take them. When we | arrived at New York the papers de- scribed our trip as rough passage" The truth was that at no time was the wind stronger than good. stiff sailing l breeze" At the height of it we met a | four -masted shin with every stitch of