The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-19
ON DECK AGAIN.
AtchisOn Editor Now Enjoys Sea
Better Than Land.
Doesn't Get Sick and Is Free
From the Beggars.
WEATHER NOW COOLER
For the First Time This Winter
Puts on Heavy Clothing.
For Weeks Past Has Been
SweItering in the Heat.
WEATHERNOW COOLER

fTf71rFrar7aTr January A.
Am I learning the game aWoks
this morning at $50 after being IN
he'd ten hours. After / had taken
bath and been shaved it was S-oU
when / reached the dining room ah9
zen o'clock by the time nnlsned
brea kfast. I sleep much better on s slls
water than 7 do on land. esLeEady
afternoon I slept three hours w men
I came out of my room this morning L
found a big sea running, Dut ulQ no
notice it until / went on deck Am 4
learning the game? The ship IS roll
fnp and plunging good deal today
but at times I forget the motion en-
tirely.
The ship is relief from the beggars
at Colombo ] tipped nearly every
body in Colombo; if the mayor ala nol
get a tin from me 1t was his own Iault'
he didn't apply for it. L gave wiling
Is to only one servant a Wtetcileu ma
tive who looked after the l2Fatory on
NV floor. The earth closet system
Vs-se used and every time I went in
this fellow was hiding in the dark
corners: he seemed to be so ugly thaJ
he had been given orders TO keep out
Of SIGHT / thought Of him as me
Devil, but determined to give MIN
larger tip than any Of the others, ana
I did.
There is a stout woman on board
who spends most of her time on deck
smoking cigarettes. She was drunk
when she came on board. She had
been assigned a room with an old maid
school teacher from New England,
and the Ancient Maiden made such a
roar that all the passengers heard 1t.
1he fat woman with the great thirst
was given a room by herself
At my table sits a woman from Aus
tralta, and her four sons. This IS
their second trip around the world.
] admire them all very much: par
ticularly one Of the big boys who
hangs around his mother good deal
He is a football player and a manly
fellow, but loves his mother. The
other boys are nice to their mother,
but the particular one I refer to sits
with her on deck by the hour, and
walks with her. The mother says that
ne was always that way, and that she
IS no fonder of him than she is Of the
others. That's little white fib; you
may say you love all your children just
the same, but you do not: If you were
not fOndest of the one who was fond
est of you. you would be guilty of a
mean trick. The mother and the boys
have been through America twice, and
tell me of the funny things they saw
America may seem funny to you. -
I said to them, but you have no idea
how proper it seems to me"
A man came into the smoking room
today. and. producing a case contain
ing four cigars, said:
There is my allowance for the
That is one of the numerous trou-
hles with me- I am not a safekeeper
FOR myself I can easily limit myself
to two meals a day. but when it comes
TO cigars, I find it easy to coax my
keeper to increase my allowance
There comes a time in every mans life
when he must be very strict with him
self; when he must constantly resist
temDtation. And the more strict he is
with himself. the longer he will live
The only way tn live long time is to
be mean to yourself; to live on your al
lowance. and gradually reduce Il.
A great habit with all tourists is the
shopping habit. They sDend half their
time in looking at jewelrv and curios.
and neglect the sights thew came to
see. On board the "SomaHs IS wo-
man who spent her entire time at
Randy in buving a ring The shop
keeper asked 500 for the ring: she
bought IT for $40. after dickering two
days. No wise traveller Will pay more
than half the price asked for en- article.
But If YOU get an article a a fair price
hours at time and quarrel. There
fore 7 do not shop; I do not care to
quarrel
We saw whole TODAY. but it
amounted tn no more than this. n
RnOut Of voter SHOOTING IN 0l1+ Nf the
ncean milo av-av This is the wav
travellers "see" whales