Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28

VI,
and soon became.dubbed liking of the
sid brigade" ID got him into lots of
trouble, though pleasant, however. He
had thenceforward to rally to the whistle
for every game, and before the journey
was over he was physically done up,
what with falls. playing "tag" and
racing up and down four flights of deck
stairs; and when housed, it was tell
us another story" The Kindergarten
ranged from six month to sixteen years,
and at times he had to play nurse. But
it was all fun, and kept one busy in the
aforementioned do-nothing career. The
aboard record somebody's
hourly doings, and the record mot
of a weeks life of the two
hundred in the upper cabin is writ in
black and white caricature.
The second cabin, or second class
passengers, are the ones who ''let loose"
and have good time. To the rollick-
ing disposition the upper ten" on
board ship are rather stiff and formal,
but ninety per cent of them on this trip
voted 1T an all-round Jolly good time. :"
The quintette of Southerners, before
half the voyage was over, by common
consent were picked as entertainers,
and the way Southern songs, negro
melodies, dance and speeches were
ratified off will doubtless make secure
for us job with Sullivan's minstrels
when we get back dead broke. 1t all
eliminated in the ships doctor arrang-
ing program, having it printed aboard,
and held the last night for the benefit
of the disabled seamen's fund. The
canny Scots and phlegmatic Dutch
aboard the Caledonia had such Jolt
that their sense of humor, long asleep,
began to awaken before Ireland was
sighted twenty-four hours later, and
that's Maud S. speed for the European
Puck. We understand now why so
many court testers of old failed to
make GOOD and fell upon unlimited
sleep. Twenty pounds, or near a hun
dred dollars, was the collection. Fifty
per cent of our set were native born
Northerners, and the remainder (less
five) were English. Irish, Scotch, Dutch.
or from Asia, Spasia and the Isles of
Sea. Dixie, Bonnie Blue Flag"
and even Good Old Rebel" were in
vited, and encored, by the audience in
a way that would make our lovely Lam
caster Choir girls little jealous. We
think they (the said lovely girls) could
easily worktheirpassage across and back
if tried. The stolid officers and many
globe trotters" voted it the ''jolliest"
trip they ever made. But that is
because things were forced somewhat
out of the ordinary by a few who re-
solved to either ''get gay or move
down to the second cabin where things
always go with a joyous whoop. Many
estimable people, and sometimes the
rich, travel second class, especially men
when travelling without family encum-
brances. The tariff is much less, the
fare about as good as above, the rooms
nearly so and the freedom greater
except that admission to the upper
deck is denied. The third cabin, or
steerage, however, is almost insuffer-
able. I'VE got acquainted with all classes
and made some good snapshots of the
lower five' as well as of the middle"
and the upper ten". When interest
above tagged we youngsters chat
means anywhere from five to forty)
would steal off below and join in the
Scottish reel or Highland fling while
the bagpiper split the ocean air. Nine
out of ten below were Irish or Scots re-
turning to their native heath; and Joy
had full sway. The last night, when
lreland's lights doomed up, they made
the night hideous by their revelry.
The visions of storm and seasickness
were wanting on this voyage. The sea
had continuously grand, majestic roll
upon her bosom. but it was long metre
and our ship nearly six hundred feet
long, so that at no time did one stagger.
Onlya few rejected the tempting meals,
and they We're ladies who had solemnly
concluded that they must be sick. After
the first day or two this waiting for
what the Lord might send, or make
them cough up, became irksome and
they crept out, forgetting for the rest
of time that they were at sea. One has
many time gotten far more shaking
up in the Rappahannock river than did
we on this more-than-three-th thousand
mile trip. They would tell us that if a
storm broke we would have to be bat
tened inside. and so forth, but we have
come to the conclusion that trip on
the Chesapeake bay in our compare
lively small steamers is fraught with
more disagreeable attachments than is
trip across the great pond" on big
liner. So no one should be deferred
from taking the ocean trip for fear of
sickness. Possibly we may "sing another
time" upon returning, especially if we
take passage from a Mediterranean
port. as at present contemplated.
Going back to incidents-the second
day we were off Cape Sable (get your
maps, girls and boys), but too far off