The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-18

It's cause it's home Chil'ren know as
much as grown folks on some subjec's an
there WASN'T anybody on that boat could have
toll Billie anythin' bout home.
when saw our cabin | felt sorry for
Mrs. Gray Seems if she was spendin' a
good deal for little, but she didn't =complain
an it was her money. She'd have foun'
fault with it as a closet at home but on
shipboard, seems IT, she looked on or, 1T as a
in it very much, for Mrs. Gray an were
al'ys on the deck an Billie was al'ys on the
riggin ropes. I'd never bring up chill on
row Of eyes all round my head an an
autymobile horn to scream thru. It's bad
nough on Ian where you know what's under
you, but water doesn't make very good
foundation, seems II. 81 $50
The only place. for a chill on ships
in the hold 18th the other baggage,' says one
of the officers, says he, when: picked Billie
often the riggtn an stepped on his toes at
the same time.
"The deck steward tol' me t that very Of
ficer had five girls an three boys at home in
Englan' an, yet there's sixteen days outen
ev'ry month t he'd rather see boa con-
strctor n a chill.
Seems If the emperor of Germany couldn't
| have straighter spine n those officers i
couldn't tell one from another but fore we'd
been out twenty -four hours Mrs. Gray had
seen the pictures of their wives an chiIren;
but then, she didn't know the deck steward
from the man who washed the deck. There's
diff rent kin's Of learnin, for diffrens kin's OF
Z y
even If there was 'nough to go 'roun'. 1t s
what were interested in It comes easy, seems
| If.
There was that Mrs, Smylie from Boston
] She came up on the deck one mornin' like
She was in a hurry to catch train back tc
1 New York. Steward says she to the cap.
/ tain, says she, but che didn't get any fur
4 ther, for he looked. at her worse'n II she 4
4 been stesrage passenger strayed up by mis-
! take. Pardon me. madam says he, I'm
4 not the steward, I'm the cook An you
ought to have heard her talkin' to Mrs. Top.
ham ten minutes later bout the partially o
/ the officers for some folks, meanin Mrs
i Gray. Mrs. Topham had asted the captain
1 that same day II he'd tell her JUS how muc1
4 the ship was goin to roll, as if she was get
! tin recipe for cucumber pickles Madam,
/ says he as polite as II he was ta1kin' tt
the wife of the man who was payin' him hi
wages. madam, says he, we've picked fish
4 in nets often the bridge occasionally morn
4 ms, an from that we conclude It the shi]
rolls completely over didn't blame hin
a mite. When body asts fool question
he ought to expect fool answer, seems-if
/ II never had as much respec for maj
as l did when the dinin' room steward tool
me over the boat an saw how ev'ry incl
4 of room was used. A woman couldn't hay
4 planned it better, but no woman'd have In
vented the way they make the beds. VIII
don't you tuck the covers in like you ID
5 on lam? says to the man when he wa
I foldin' the sheets an blanket an sprea
4 al'ys done 1t this way, says he, as tho tina
was any answer. I knew how Mrs Ora
would feel an ey'ry mornin / made the bed
Il over, tho 1t was the steward t got the fe
when we lef, the boat.
81 b'lieye I'd like to cook on board shtr
lhan,a Its as convenient as any dat buildtr