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is going to join her husband , on "business in Europe. On the way she 
is nking conquests of all the sen fror:i tho captain down. She is de- 
lighted at "being placed next the captain at table. I sumise the 
captain told the steward who assigns places to pick his out a good 
looker. She is the sheltered wife that the American man is so good 
t© ("the American aan is so good to his women" we are so often told — 
the working woman struggling against prejudice and discrimination 
would never guess it), and she drinks and smokes and gambles, while 
the designer, who has worked for her living since she was 12 ysars 
old is refined and kindly , with hunan sympathies. She is plotting to 
sau-'-'le some delicate food to a mother in the third class. She got 
caught at it one trip, she told ne, and "it ixide an aw^ul row. She'V- 
is a Joy. Ther e is enough wasted at our tables to con fort ©any a 
seasick person in third class. This ship is very different 
fro® the Porto Rico boat. We embarked upstairs. I forgot we had 
gone up in the elevator at the pi»r and when I had to go down two ! | 
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stories to ny cabin I thought it was hard luck. This is the saloon \ 
deck, I guess, and this is am outside room. (In my wanderings to get 
away frora tobacco nMke I have returned to the cabin. I 'a nearly 
fro son with all ay wraps on. The only tiae I'm warn is in bed or in 
the cosy writing room — but tobacco is worse than cold to a squeamish 
stomach, "".ith the smoking room and the decks to smoke in I think 
they sight leave the writing roon or soae spet tuissaoked. 1 asked 
a sailor if we were likely to see an iceberg. He said he had crossed 
four timm and had not sees ob# yets I wanted to aaa a wfeAXe and an 
iceberg. —The little paper ship on the chart that shows where we 
are on the ocean is only about half way across. I wish that sose of 
thftfts land bridges that Lyall, the elder Hooker, and the other scient- 
ists of Darwin's tine, used to hypothecate, were left, so that a weak- 
stomached person like ay self could walk across. I am awfully slad I 
jus going to 3urope, but I would never go to sea for the pleasuee of it. 
