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On board— The Am erica la ft Hoboken in a cold driving rain about 
-three in the afternoon, March 11. It has been very rough , at least 
th® steward and a cabin-mat© who has crossed 27 times, myfi, but 
stewardess says it isn't rough until the ship dips so that th© 
smokestacks take water. The stewardess ,fro» Oregon, is th© handsoneB 
thing 1 ever laid ©yes on, tall, splendidly built, with a face and 
neck as if out from aarble. I would like to stand her in a room 
alone in the Corcoran Art Gallery with the wall draped with black 
velvet. Did I ever say that sickness did not interfere with my 
enjoyment of beauty — I have a sort of recollection of sot e such 
irony. That heaving water— wough, I can 1 1 see any beauty in it. . It 
Is beginning to look less horrible today, though it is raining hard 
rT the ship is alternately standing on its head and its tail, asit 
has been doing ever since we got out of Hudson river. 
I am doing 
very well for ae. I stayed in bed for two .days, taking water only, 
then the nurse oaae in and gave tie a dose that left r.e shaliey, but I 
at© breakfast the next morning, and have been "taking nourishment" 
since. The things on the bill of fare are appalling. The waiter 
suggests kippered herring and things like that. He doesn't seen t© 
think much of my choice of shredded wheat. A German Jewess at table 
asked hi* what it was 1 had. "liohts," he said. Hark to this! There 
is a llquj^ list on the t^ble and .everybody but^yself is drink A wine 
and beerV/lCsteward has Just gone by (here in the writing "rooa ) with 
gwei bier. Ships owned and aanaged by a government whose duty it is 
to enforce the 10th amendment load up with liquor in European ports 
and begin to sell it when the ship is three ailes out from our shore. 
Here is another queer thing : Everyone belonging to the ship, nearly, 
doctor, purser, chief stewatd , /"iniag and cabin stewards , are so 
Pent s oh wis sauerkraut. " n's naae is Hind. Officers have 
