The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-10
LIFE ON The OCEAN Deep
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chat with everyone. Wilma must
have known from experience how
welcome they would be at such a
time. / got my chair up close to
Rutts (she was not feeling very
good and we read the letters from
the friends together. She enjoyed
them as much as I did, for they were
from her friends, too.
l met Hoover, last evening-much
to his displeasure. 1t happened in
this wise-four of us were walking
along together | was at one end,
and wanted to say something TO the
girl at the other end-so started to
run step or two ahead, 1--WE were
walking baud in hand) | was not
looking were l was going and ran
right into Hoover striking him in
his dinner basket. He did not seem
a bit pleased about it, just look
ed sour and vert on! He evidently
does rot enjoy having fat ladies
hitting him in the stomach. One of
the Englishmen calls him THE man
who nude America hungry"
don't believe Hoover can smile-no
one has seen him in the act at any
rate. Two Canadian men have been
very nice TO me. One is tall, skin
ny and married, the other short,
fat and bachelor. They are with
the Canadian Administrator of Jus
tice and the Canadian Attorney Gen
eral They are going to the Peace
Conference. | don't know what
the two men were called in Canada
They were educated in England and
are called barristers. l had a nice
walk with the tall one today-about
six miles. He is very interesting
The fat one started with us, but he
keep up. The tan one spent five
years in n. Y. on ore of the big pa
psrs when he was younger.
/ have found out more about the
boat We passed yesterday. 1t was
caught in a tornado. The crew was
rescued. 1t was a freighter and
they burned it so it would go down
right. The other boat was to stay till
it had gone down. 1t was sinking
gradually when we passed. 1t was
on its way to Newfoundland, l be-
lieve. 5
There are the prettiest white sea
gulls following our boat The tips
of their wings and their feet are
black.
The officers and men on this boat
are very fond of tit has been con-
yoyed out from ore port ard has
made the trip alone until met by the
convoy on the other side, all through
the war. l believe the convoy went
with her a hundred and fifty miles
and she was met at the erd of her
strip about hundred and fifty
speed ard her guns. She has sunk
two or three subs. She has been
carrying about seven or eight thou
sand men, but on this trip there
are only about seven hundred of us.
S. S. Olympic. Wednesday -4th day
Out: Well, l am not sick yet and
every one says I am apt to be now.
The girls are gradually appearing
on deck, today, but are rather pep
less. / can not walk very well, my
self, today, having a lame foot. /
guess l walked too far with my tall
Canadian. Last night walked around
the deck with both of the nice
Canadians. We saw the most won
derful moon-(Now don't laugh like
the girls cid when / told them about
IT'D But the moor certainly was
wonderful. 1t was the cleaneSt
moon l have ever seen-and there
was a rainbow around it. Then,
when the clouds would pass over it,
it would shine down in the water
in one spot or in ore long line just
as it CHANGED to penetrate between