The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-08-22
LEADS mel RY LIFE
ABOARD A SHIP
Small Girl iets an Education
WDile Sailing All Over
the World.

Not many little girls Of ten summers
can say: Il learned how to play the
plano. | have learned to read and
write | can draw. | know the multi
plication table. Oh, you know can
do all the things that any ordinary
school kid of my age can do. and I've
got all this education while visiting half
the ports of the world. and making ten
trips around the Horn in papa's ship"
This is sort of an ideal I'm education
for young folks yet II is what little
Gladys Margaret Graham has had the
good fortune to do while sailing merrily
around the world, through pleasant
seas and through icy seas piled up to
the height of mountains by hurricanes.
Gladys Graham is the little daughter
of Captain Graham of the big white
ship Il. NJ. Phelps which is now lying
at Naval wharf. She is as pretty and
clever little maiden as ever skipped
rope on the deck of a merchantman.
All her life has been spent with her
rather and mother on the big ships that
the captain has commanded, and her
father has been master of some of the
best ships that ever sailed under an
American flag too.
Little Gladys talks Interestingly Of
her voyage around the Horn. You
see," she said, II have lots of fun here
when / don't have to study and prac-
tice on the piano too much. A sailors
life Is all right except when we have a
bad cook. We mostly always have
trouble with our cooks. They are bad
Some of them don't ever know how to
boil potatoes. We had one who tried
to thicken the gravy by pouring a lot
of salt into it, but he sickened the
sailors instead. 'Thicken' and 'sicken'
make a funny joke, don't they?
Il have lot of fun at times. When
We have a rough day and the sea jumps
up and down l go down in the dining
room and sit in the middle of the floor |
Its smooth hard wood you know and
just as soon as the ship tips from side |
to side l slide all over the floor Its
better than having a sled and sliding
on the snow because you don't have
to carry sled around when sliding on
the floor and just as soon as you get
to the bottom of the slide that part
lifts up and becomes the hill and YOU
slide down again and keep doing II as
long as you like.
There are lots of other things to }
to. We fish for albatross going aroun /!
the Horn. They're great big birds and |
we catch them on the end of a line
which has three cornered hook that |
they bite and as soon as they do 1t 1t |
jams their bill and they cannot open
1t to let the hook go so we just pull
them on board. I like birds.
Honolulu? oh Honolulu would be
all right If it did not have so many
They're awful here. We
usually carry a few away from her
with us but not having any place to
keep them in they usually get blowed
Off the ship. ] don't think they'd live |
during the cold part of our trip around |
the Horn.
You know we've got an awful lot of |
sailors. They all come from Baltimore
together and l don't think any of them |
had ever been to sea before. They are
a lot of land lubbers. You know our
masts are high and some of them were |
afraid to go up at first but the mates |
persuaded them that they were nearer
heaven when they got up there so all |
or them went up as we wanted them
too. Two of them had been in the |
all winter and / think some
Of the others should have been in Jail. |
Wen / must go in and get my dolls. |
Don't you forset-you know, I'm a |
regular state o. Maine child mariner.
Don't give me away thought was
oorn in California. Goodbye"
"a