The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-01
Pacific Ocean, April. 1910.

m N0u look at a commercial map
Of the Pacific Ocean with the converg-
ing, crossing, intersecting,- diverging,
coinciding and tangent lines of the
various and numerous steamship com
panies blueined over it until it re-
sambles the mining claims about Grip
pie Creek, and then think Of all the
uncharted lines Of tramp freighters and
sailing ships that traverse the billowv
highways of this vast waterway. YOU
are apt to be disturbed by fear that
you might fall overheard, in which
case You would surely break your head
by falling on the deck Of a passing
ship. Do not worry If you should
fall overheard at any hour and in any
longitude, You will get wet, all right.
And while you are swallowing anor-
nous quantities of unbottled Pacific
Ocean water, guaranteed under the pure
food law, and for which YOU have no
use whatever, and which YOU Will not
be able to retain after the boat for
which YOU are somewhat impatientlv
waiting reaches You, YOU would like TO
get the man who drew that map of
thousand roadways, by the hair.
The seventh day out of Honolulu.
and three lonely days to come, and we
have not lghte0 a sail We are be
ginning to svmpathize with Enoch Ar
den. How the women stand three DAYS
without a sale is mystery to the men.
But they seem 10 be as happy as they
always are. It is a part of their self
sacrificing lives to suffer and smile. AS
for the men-well there is a barber
shop on the ship, 50 we do not miss
the morning paper. And there is a
smokingroom with all the appurte-
nances thereunto appertaining. 50 we
have The latest things in politics. What
we do not know we invent. which is
very much what we do ashore in similar
1t is not at all necessary that people
should be entertained at sea The Pa
cific Ocean is not plaything. 1t IS
too big, too Majestic. too much like
eternity in the infnitv of its reach,
clear out to the rim of the universe,
to be used as a nursery kindergarten
for lot of grOwn-up men and women.
1t should not be expected to lift a sail
on the horizon for the pastime of
man who thinks he has seen the ocean
because he ooked at it once as the
ship steamed out of the Golden Gate.
If there is nothing to look at but the
sea, the average glohe-trotter can
largely broaden his knowledge by
studying it few hours every morning
and having a review IN the afternoon.
Sailor men who have followed the sea
all their lives tell me thev are vet
ing new lessons day by day.
It is good medicine to have nothing
but the sea lust to look at sometimes
Not comment on it at all Not say
to the helpless passenger whose chair
grim fate has anchored next your own:
Ism t it grand?' Nor to inform him
that Zone never tires of looking at
the sea- Nor 10 begin to recite - Roll
on. thou deep and dark blue ocean
roil,' and stick eternaIlv on the sec
ond roll. But Just to look, and keep
your mouth shut.
But there are some men-and even
a few women-who can not sit down
in the next chair without saying some
thing to you. They have to. Yon can
see the devil Of "taIIl - working on
the helpless victim Of its chattering
possession. He looks at Won. at first
furtivelv, then boldly. He sees your
rapt gaze fixed on some picture of
beauty. some dream Of home, some