The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-01

, is fully old enough-took that quite &c
heart.
We were we'll down toward Atlantic
City before We ceased plowinG way
through the flotsam and jetsam. Flot-
sam and jetsam are nice, romantic
words. altogether unsuitable for this
mess that the New York street cleaners
muss up the ocean with.
OF course. there are all kinds of people
on board. mostly United Staters, as ".
Americans are chronic travellers, the
most restless race in the world except
the Bedouins. The real New Yorker
however. thinks he is simply camping
out whenever he is OFF Manhattan Island
People from other American cities cloak
their inconsistencies by finding fault. The
tenderfoot land traveller and the tender
fin water voyager always seem to think
they will be mistaken for blase globe
trottcrs by belittlins everything new TO
them, from food to scenery.
The trained nurse. who invented the
garbage game. is quite remarkable PER
son: wonderful, in fact. There are L.
number of passengers who are remark
able in one way or another, but she
stands out prominently from the herd.
She is neither Young nor old. pretty nor
plain. hut VivaCious and always on the
firing line. In fact. she has what Is
known as Pep. She is all alone and
apparently knew no one on board until
after We started. Now she knows every
body. ! suspect nor II being intellectual
and Of travelling with her brains for a
companion. At that. she has more COM
pany than some Of us.
Also she IS hit of a mystery. She
has vouchsafed that she is a trained
nurse. and won this trip in voting
contest. which would indicate self
reliance and a lack of wealth. That's
as far as she has gone. Oh, yes, her
name is Bessie.
After the garbage game I realized
she was remarkable. hut two days
later after somebody had begun to
rock the boat | knew she was wonder
full. She was seasiCk and witty a the
same time. I don't believe any other
woman in the world could play that
com bina ton and make it. l asked her
if she had breakfasted and she an
swered:
On the contrary"
Rocking the boat started a lot OF
trouble. II upset all our plans and
other things besides. The other things
were of much more consequence than
our plans. Mine were certainly. for
lost absolutely all interest in plans. to
begin with, and then l went right
along and lost everything else. When
| undressed at night | was very much
surprised to find that l had not lost
my socks I could have sworn that
felt them leave me.
But ! had company. Plenty of it.
Too much of it. We interfered with
each other so that at times it was
hard to find an opening at the rail.
That is. find it quick enough.
1t is always open season for rail
birds off HarteraS
But. sick or unsick. the pleasantest
way to go is by water. That's the
story | fixed up to tell and I'm going
to stick TO it.
Two-thirds of the passengers are
females of all ages. from the papoose
class to hroilers, debutantes and ma
irons Then there is lot of male
humanity that comes under the col
lege-boy heading. The rest are main
iy men who are either baldheaded or
fat and heyond the struggling age.
who look and act as though they had
been sentenced to take this trip and
had made up their minds to he re-
signed to it. These make up the
chorus. The exceptions. like the nurse
girl. are the principals whom l will
introduce as they come to the sur
face.
It's odd. by the wav how draGEled
women get to look after few days at
sea even the smartest Of them. For one
thing they quit curling their hair or else
it doesn't stay in curl and becomes
straight and straggly and wisplke. Then
nobody has Vet devised a seasoinG head
dress that is satisfactory and becoming
even to pretty girl. 4 cap like mans
is always a distinct failure. while Tam
O Shanter is sure to he blown so that
instead of hanging picturesquely over
one car il drOopS namely down the back
and gives the wearer the expression Of
an inspired idiot. Scarfs or Shawls over
the head make her look like an invalid,
and heaven knows she is prOhab feel
ing enough like an invalid anyway with
out advertising the fact
If. by any good fortune. she is not
seasick she STAYS out on deck and gets
sunhurned Just to show en- what good
sailor she is. For some reAson or other
the only parts of a girls face that the
sun burns seem to he her nose and eve
lids. They get red and hlotchy and
sore and make her look disGustincly dis !
sipated and conspiCuously un1retty. |
While il she is seasick her complexion |
turns to a grcenish yellow that is Shast- |
".
Take my tip. girls. don't think YOU can |
ook IA sCinatinC al sea. 1t can't be |
lone.
There is a couple on their honeymoon |
trip who have never been at sea before |
and never will he again. They are |
stretched out in deck chairs. Ii they |
ook ut each other it makes them all the
sicker. They hardly speak now. \
'ouple Of days more and they will posi- /
lively loathc one another. AS this is
pleasure trip. let's omit the honey
nooners.
Some people go down to the sea In
'hips and others know hetteT-Off Hat
eraS.
II Bessie the nurse is the sOubrette OF
he ship-and there is no doubt about it
hen Muriel is the ingenue. She Is
genuine cutie
l gathered that she is small town
wager thing. Her father is president
4 a bank and has money of his own
'esides that which people trust him with.
Ter clothes were made on purpose in
tore and not by a dressmaker who came
n by the day and got s. per and her
meals. Those clothes would pass at par in
lmost any Broadway "trottsry.'
She is young and she is pretty and