Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-12
By Edgar
E.. Folk, DID,.
A SOUTHERN Pill GRIM IN EASTERN LANDS
N-- L---Life on Shipboard ------

Der of our party, though, take at least
five meals, adding broth at IL and tea
at to these three.
| WALKING.
| Numerous games are provided, such
! as shuttle boar dand quoits on the boat
deck dominoes, checkers. etc, in the
parlor. But the principal occupation.
outside of eating and sleeping, Is walk
ing on the promenade deck. Morning
and afternoon for about an hour, every
| body promenades. Tramp, tramp, tramp.
the boys are walking-and the girls. and
the men and women, young men, old
men, young women. older women. There
they go, round and round, round and
round again. seven and half times
around to the mile Between tramps
they sit on the promenade deck wrapped
( in steamer rugs. looking like a set Of
Egyptian mummies, some sleeping, some
reading, all enjoying the refreshing, in
MIGRATING sea breezes which tan the
cheeks of the men and bring roses to
those of the women. How pretty some
! of them do look after an hours prom
enade. with their cheeks all aglow with
these sea roses. the most beautiful roses
! in the world. l could not help thinking,
though that II people at home would
stay out in the open air as much as they
do on board ship, and would take as
much exercise. it would not be necessary
| for them to go to the mountains or sea-
shore, or take an ocean voyage, for their
health.
ROUTINE.
The routine of the day is about as fol-
1 lows: Rise at $50. bath, breakfast, walk,
| sit on deck reading or sleeping, broth
walk, music by the band, luncheon,
walk. sit on deck, tea, music, walk, dress
for dinner a horrible nuisance Il mean
| the DIRE ssing, not the dinner), dinner, con-
versation, games, music. wnlk, 5'eep.
| This program may be varied somewhat
| In individual cases by walking before
/ breakfast bath before dinner, ga,ues In
| the morning or afternoon, coffee before
! breakfast supper at 1G. but the above is
! the general rule AS you see, life. on
| shipboard Is anything but wearisolne. On
| the contrary, it is like being off at a
| popular summer resort, stopping at a
| fine hotel. And thus, eating, sleeping,
walkinf, talking. playing, playing, talk
/ ing, walking, sleeping, eating, Onward
] over the sea we CO. on and on, and still
on and on, no stop day or night, no sta
ton, no side track, in fact 10 track, no
dust, no noise. except the tremOr of the
ship or the dashing of the waves on and
on, one day about the same as another.
As my friend, Col. o. g. Barton of
Paris, Tenn, says, the country each day
looks about the same as i did the day
before So far as appearances go, we
are not farther today than we were yes
terday. but the ships log say we are
making from $50 to 1856 miles a day over
the traclkless deep.
WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE.
Everywhere-to- the north, to the east,
to the south, to the west to the right
TO the LETT, to the front, TO the rear
there is water, only water. No land, no
trees, no grass, no flowers, Just
Water, water everywhere
Nor any drop to drink
at leaset none of the sea water. And
not much of any other kind. For, strange
as 1t may SEEM the one scarce article on
shipboard is water But, while when
you look out you see only water every
where. there Is an. Irresistible fascina-
, ton in this water. You can stand and
gaze upon it for hours and never grow
tired For, mind you, while it IL water
! always water, this water is not a dull
monotony, but, like the land. breaks into
innumerable hills and valleys and every
variety of scenery. Sometimes the waters
are blue, sometimes black, sometimes all
the same color. sometimes uninterrupted
Sometimes the black waters will break
! into the most beautiful opal waves, and
these in turn Wilt be snow-capped, and
the snow caps win vanish in spray. And
/ so you have black binder opal, opal under
white, and white under mist. Could
anything be prettier?
SUNSETS AT SEA. ass.
And then the sunsets at sea-how can
describe them? Cnobstructed by noun
tains, hills, trees or houses. the sun slips
into the sea like a huge ball of fire. You
can almost see II strike the water, and
hear it sizz. And then as 1t disappears
| from view. it throws back its golden
colors which are caught up by the float
ing clouds and reflected from cloud to
cloud, golden, crimson, purple, red, white
and blue-you understand that even the
clouds at sea are patriotic Americans, at
least to an American-the drifting clouds
breaking into oceans, lakes, continents
islands, mountains, valleys and fantastic
figures of every description. Oh! it Is
glorious. II is worth a trip across the
ocean to see a sunset at sea. AS to the
sunrise II is impossible for me to de-
scribe It'll haven't. seen one. Nor have
1 seen anybody on board that has. You
understand that the sun has the habit of
getting up pretty early over here. In
feet, as IL to prevent you from catch
ing him mapping he gets up half an hour
earlier every morning, at least while we
are going east. In this way he keeps
us turning our watches up half an hour
each day to keep up with him, and then
IL is hard to do so. One lady I'm our
party, however, persistently refuses to
move up her watch a minute. She is from
Atlanta and true to the Atlanta spirit,
she thinks Atlanta time is the best time
In the world. 1t should be added, though,
that she does not get up by Atlanta time
If she did she would now be getting up
about o'clock in the morning. With the
habit OF early rising, therefore, and with
the fact that our days are only % IL
hours long, ] think you can readily I'M
derstand why some of us have not seen
the sun rise,
SEA SICKNESS.
But what about sea sickness? So far
no member of our party has suffered
from It.. Perhaps, however, L had better
touch wood when 1 say that, because We