The Ordway new era., 1922-04-21

'"h. Ehcn table has its particulor
"ai'er' ana after he has served Won
ne stands around with folded arms
Ma'ting Tor Mhe next course ,and
Mutchihg to get you anything else
YOU want. Not being used to such
attention. ii sort of gives me the lin
,iies AT the other end of the boat
IL the smoking room on our deck and
uhuefheath is the second class rooms.
'hihk their rooms are just about as
nioe out they do not have so much
ueck us we have nor so much loung-
,ns room. 1t is about the same, they
s"!' us Nrst class is on the English
pu',S SO we must have things extra
orolharify nice. There is n children's
play room on our deck all decorated
WIN ANIMALS, etc. We can do all the
| waking we want for about S u times
around our deck makes a mile. The
Aeolus was German vessel which
was ihterned and has been fixed up
as a passenger boat. 1t was used as
a transport during the war or after
ward and the German name for il was
The Great Electo", tho, of course.
in German language. 1t is a very
wei built boat. Every morning the
bedroom steward comes in after we
go to breakfast and cleans our room
up, and he sure puts away ANYTHING
you leave about the room. He would
make very good house keeper.
We had a meeting Yesterday morn
ing to organize an entertainment
cluD for the trip and everyone made
suggestions for such entertainments.
Ionight we are to have q hard-time
party. tho we are to go to dinner in
our toys, then we are to parade be-
fore the Captain and he is to be judge
OF who shall receive the prize for
'tackiest' costume. All | have to
wear is my big apron and that is not
tacky. Last night we had quite
ilttle eNcitment in the dining room,
ana am not sure whether the enter
tainment committee had anything to
40 with it or not, but have my sus-
| piclonS. Soon after we went down
TO dinner, there was man came to
the dining room door with old greasy
coveralls on and black streaks on his
race. He had no sooner appeared
than the head steward and some of
the walters rushed out and the stew
ard told him to get out of there. He
said he wanted his supper and said
he had eaten in better places than
that. One of the men hollered to
Put Him out" and another ran to
help so they finally got him out. He
walked too straight to be drunk
enough for such performance, and
Price asked our waiter which one of
them put him up to it. He said he
didn't have anything to do with it
but he had heard a rumor that there
would be strange man in the din
ing room during the dinner.
They have a bar on the boat here
end it was opened after we got out
beyond the 8 mile limit. do not
know just what they serve but have
never seen anyone tipsy. either crew
or passengers. When Bernice and
were sick we each got some lemon
ade, then the first meal l took the
steawardess and waiter both recon-
mended some ginger ale to help
so both the lemonade and gingerale
hade to be brought from the bar.
Price told us she was going to inform
the society that their missionaries
were running up bar bills on the
boat.
1t is getting so warm in here
guess l will go up on deck awhile and
) will write when there is any more
news.
Sunday, Feb. II. 1922.
Well, we crossed the equator this
morning and we have just returned
from the initiation put on by King
Neptune and his followers. Ii is
now 4:3O p. m. About 800 o'clock
there was parade headed by the
orchestra and the King, then those
who had prepared for the initiation
ceremonies by attiring themselves in
their bathing suits. The King and
his wife and daughter We're attired
in clothing made of frayed ropes
also hair and beard We're of the same
material. They were stationed un-
der canopy overlooking the swim
; ming tank, and each person who had
never crossed the equator was brougl
before them for trial. On the edge
of the swimming tank was seal
fastened to tip backwards into the
tank and three men stood around 1t
AS each person was seated the doctor
gave him a dose of medicine out OF
mammoth bottle and another mar
pumped water down his neck witt
a tire pump. Then the barber cover
ed his head with lather. which was
really a thin dough, l think, shaved
. him with huge razor, pretended tt
clip his hair with huge shears. ant
shampooed him with the dough. The
seat was suddenly tipped and the
man slipped backward into the tani
where two men waited to duck him
few times. Climbing up ladder ou
of the tank, he had to climb into
long canvas tube and slide thru Il
the other end where another
sailor used a mop on his face as hi
came thru and turned big hose OF
him. Some Of the women took 1t
too, though they did not go through
the tube, and of course did not ge
ducked so much. We girls requested
beforehand that We be exempt from
1.-THE rough part of initiation on nc
count of its being Sunday and tn,