The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-05

| north work hard to keep warm, get the
| habit, and then work themselves to
| death, leaving fortunes to astonish the
world. Tomorrow the summer under
among the dirty clothes. (Note.-I say
! the tropics have never produced a
| really grea- man. don't know wheth-
/ er they have or not. can't think of
| one, so I make the statement. When
1 make statement, it means only that
/ 1 say so: I am not very accurate, and
not very well informed. 1 hope this
frank concession will pacify the school
teachers. 1 might as we'll also confess
| for the benefit of the school teachers
| (since they will find it out anyway,
that have occasionally taken a state
ment out of the guide books, in writing
| these notes.)
During the concert in the ladies'
reading room this afternoon, six peo-
pie We're playing high five, and were
good naturally noisy. real artist
played cello solo, and the high five
people talked in loud voices of being
set up, etc. Those who were listening
to the music. Kissed the card players,
who thought the demonstration was to
express disapproval of the orchestra.
The pitiful facts are that many peo-
pie are impolite. and do not know it.
The card players were worthy people,
PROBABLY, Out In0y Ql0 not know IndI
it is as impolite to talk during a mus
zeal number as it is to interrupt a pub
lie speaker.
Most of the women who travel are
now demanding maids There are a
good many maids on board. You men
are advised to take notice: if you hope
to give satisfaction. you must not only
provide trips. but maids. The fact
that Mrs. Harker hasn't a maid is one
thing that convinces me that she isn't
travelling on Harker's money. A wo-
man can economiZe a good deal with
her own money.
By-the-way once heard of an ac-
tress who Travelled with a valet Ga
man servant; incidentally, 1 advise you
to pronounce the word as it Is spelled,
and not 'valley'')- IF a man should trav-
ell with a maid, how the women would
Screami
On a trip of this kind, you forget
everything except your name, your age,
how poor you are. and how high taxes
are. But all the passengers are graz u-
ally recalling their ordinary affairs:
there is a good deal less extravaganza
On board, and a good deal less foolish
ness. In a few days, we will all be at
accumulated during our absence and
be slow in paying them.
Almost without exception, the pas
Probably the best part of it was the
trip through South America. am still
of the opinion that I have never seen
such a general desire to please as IS
shown on the "Moltke" from Captain
Meyer down. In these days of marked
Indifference, (not to say lack of polite
ness, and impudence in taking your
money!, the politenesS of the crew or
the 'MOltke' is very pleasing. And the
passengers appreciate it. Occasionally
there has been a little grumbling over
unavoidable discomforts, but it is a
natural impossibility to land $40 pas
SengerS at the same time, in the small
boats, and some will be tossed about
longer than others. in getting to and
from shore. In our IL or IA landings,
I believe we have locked but twice;
ashore in the small boats, and the wa
ter in some of the harborS has been
rough. But when the passengers are on
board again. after a landing. they are
management. And I am glad of it,
since 1t is one of my theories that real
politeness is always noted, even by
crowd.
The Hamburg American company
uses many OF its fine ships in cruises to
many points; the cruise idea has be-
come very popular. as it affords an ex-
cellent means of seeing a great deal
IN short time and at reasonable cost
I have been thinking particularly of
cruise advertised for this summer to the
Land of the Midnight Sun: to the Mys-
erious North. The ship will make Is
or 20 stops in Norway, in Iceland, in
Spitzbergen, and in other far-away
places difficult to visit. This trip, on
ship managed as well as the Mol
tke,' would lie delightful. 1 can't get
away this summer, but I am thinking
of the trip as a possibility of some
summer in the future. when my good
bed at home again causes me to toss
and roll at night.
Living in ship at sea; is like living
at a hotel on a rainy day. when you
can't get out on the streets. The sea
soon becomes as unin;ereSting as the
house yard in which you have lived
for years, and in a ,ittle while, you
forget the ships motion: you are not
comfortable until you do. Passengers
on a ship at sea do not look over the
rail once a day; they must look for
amusement the other way. AT rare
intervals, a ship passes, and the pas
sengers look at it listlessly for a time,
for amusement on board. Therefore
If a ship is not excellently managed,
there is soon almost a mutiny among
the passengers; therefore, also, If the
passengers generally commend a ship,
as they do the "Moltke,' the fact in
dictates that the management is un-
usually intelligent and capable. Some
one on board The "Moltke' knows how
to manage" hut whether it is the cap
tain. the purser or the chief steward,
do not know. For a time, there was
a disposition to look upon Baron Won
Schroeder, the excursion agent, as the