Sunday aoming.— I can see the beauty of the retsr new. It is cloudy 
and the sea is pal© gray-green. Yesterday with the sun saining it 
was like obsidian strewn with narrow snow drifts on the higher waves. 
Bvev the infinite number of little wavelets on the surface suggested 
the cleavage of obsidian. Gull a have been in sight every day, 
following and feeding on the waste. Where do they sleep? I have 
found a little sheltered cubby-hole on the top deck {don't you adair® 
ay nautical terminology?) away froa tobacco for the moment. I go 
around with a handkerchief full of smelling salts as a gas Basic to 
breathe through. If it was "highly desir|able" that my "radical 
tendencies" should abate I should have been shipped abroad with eyes 
and ears sealed. (My nose would not detect a woman's smoke from a 
man's.) When one of the working class cones in contact with the rich 
k® feh© especially) is supposed to be impressed. Well, I an impressed 
—with the vulgarity of it all. I have laughed over cartoons in the 
Liberator, taking the® for prodigious exaggerations , but they are 
underdrawn rather than overdrawn. My Rubens cabin mat© could pose for 
a cartoon of the American Bourgeois© woman. The fisst day she was 
gushing over her eagerness to join her husband, now she is sorry the 
voyage is nearly over»-came in to dress last night for dinner, exulting 
and giggling, telling us that sundry young ©en threatened to A a laonkey 
wrench into the engine to keep the ship fro© aaking land for several 
days, the captain said they would hav et« guard the engine room— and 
so on, more sickening than the heaving water. Tq their silly half- 
soused brains 1 suppose that pas es for brilliant wit. 2h@ other night 
this Bourgeois© laughed over her losses at bridge— "I lost five dollahs 
girls, but I had a lovely time,— what's five dollahsl" She designer 
relieved my feelings by saying "If you had to earn it you would know 
what it is." My thought was that the #6 she gambled away so lightly 
her husband fin the clothing business) had made out of the labor of 
