The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-21
| EADS MERRY LIFE
ABOARD A SHIP
Girl Gets IA Education
While Sailing All Over
the World.

Not many little girls of ten summers |
can saw. II learned how to play the
piano. 1 have learned to read ana
x,,ri+a can draw. 1 know the multi |
rIica+ion table. Oh, you know l can
do all the things that any ordinary
school kid of my age can do, ana I've
got all this education while visiting nan
the ports of the world, and making Ten
trims around the Horn in papa snip
This is sort of an ideal IN educdt ioii
for Young folks yet 1t is what heeie
GLADYS Margaret Graham mas hau the
Good fortune to do while sailing merrliy
around the world, through pleasaIi'
seas and through icy seas piled up 10
the height of mountains by hurricanes
GLADYS Graham is the little daughter
Of Cantain Graham of the big WHITE
shin E. NJ Phelps which is now iyliis
ar Naval wharf. She is as pretty anu
clever a little maiden as ever skipped
rome on the deck of a merchantmen
All her life has been spent with hei
father and mother on the big sh1ps tha'
the captain has commanded, ana mel
father has been master of some OF the,
best ships that ever sailed unoel on
American flag too.
Ti+tla GLADYS talks interestingly or
ha7. voyage around the Horn. You
see ,, she said, Il have lots of fun mere
when / don't have to study and prac-
| tice on the piano too much. A sailor
| life is all right except when we nave d
had cook. We mostly always nave
trouble with our cooks. They are PAD
some of them don't ever know how 10
boil potatoes We had one VINO trleo
TO thicken the gravy by pouring iot
of salt into it, but he sickened the
sailors instead Thicker and 'slckeh
make a funny joke, don't they?
| Il have lot of fun at times. " men
we have rough day and the sea JUMPS
Inn and down 1 go down in the dining
,ooT,, and sit in the middle of the floor
It's smooth hard wood you know ano
inst as soon as the ship tips from side
to side 1 slide all over the floor. It's
better than having sled and sliding
on the snow because you don haF'
TO carry a sled around when slldinS oi
the floor and just as soon as you ge
| RI the bottom of the slide that par
lifts I'D and becomes the hill and yo'
Islide down again and keep doing Il a.
long as you like.
"There are lots of other Things 10
to. We fish for albatross going arouh
the Horn. They're great big birds an'
we catch them on the end of lin
which has a three cornered hook ina
they bite and as soon as they do 1t
Jams their bill and they cannot ope
| it to let the hook go so we Just pul
them on board. I like birds
..Honolulu? Oh Honolulu would D
all right if it did not have so man
mosquitoes They're awful here w
usually carry few away from ne
q with us but not having any place
q keep them in they usually get bIoWe
II off the ship. 1 don't think they'd NV
d during the cold part of our trip aroun
the Horn.
.sYou know we've got an awful lot
sailors. They all come from Baltimor
q together and I don't think any OF thel
It had ever been to sea before Tney al
lot of land lubbers. You know OF
n masts are high and some OF them WEI
afraid to go up at first but the mate
persuaded them that they were nearf
heaven when they got up there so
of them went up as we wanted thel
too. Two of them had been in II
workhouse all winter and L thlnh SON
Of the others should have been IN Jal
Wen 1 must go in and get my doll
: Don't you for.et-you know. m
reglar state o. Maine child marine
Don't give me away though We
T horn IN California Goodbye.