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'HE INVALID, her, hlsband, her
. doctor and her nurse hovering
solicitously about her steamer
chair as she reclined in her appointed place
on the promenade deck, while the maid
" stood resignedly awaiting any chance to be
useful, gazed beyond the smooth green
swells to the far, clear.-line of the horizon.
She shook her head' fretfully. ,
: "No," she reiterated. "Nothing
tan eat nothing at all. I wish" to her duti
ful husband- "our whole ten millions were
at the bottom of this wretched ocean and I
was. picking strawberries again on the
farm." Her face brightened. "I'd. steal
them then, as I used to while I picked'
Lome and steal some now" suggest
ed the husband.
"What I In the middle of the Atlantic
ocean?"
, "Sure! Come on; I'll help you."
Her husband on one side and the eager
maid on the other, she allowed herself to
be supported, protesting incredulity, until
she reached what looked to be and really
wasa greenhouse on the steamer's sun
deck.
,'Theref blushing pink on their vines,
xverc plenty of the viost luscious strawber
ries that ever tempted an invalid.
PLENTY oT other voyagers bound for
.Europe this spring and summer have
enjoyed the delicious proofs of the
senses that money can work miracles in
the widest waste of waters.
. Palm gardens, truck gardens, fruit gar
dens, flower gardens yes, and by one fortunate
hap, butterfly gardens the latest floating par
adise, that masquerades under the name of the
ocean liner, has accomplished this year all of
these, and so much more that, unless one experi
ences their manifold luxury, he feels impelled to
remain a doubting Thomas still.
The garden and the truck farm are innova-
lions on -the HamburgAmerican liners Amerika
and Kaiscrin Auguste Victoria; .but they are
far from isolated examples of the amazing lux
ury to which transatlantic travel has attained.
When the Lapland, the 18,500-ton steam
ship of the Bed Star Line, began her voyages
between New York and Antwerp, equipped for
the accommodation of 750 cabin and 1700 steer
age passengers, she had among her officials a
totally, new functionary of the sea in the pretty
person of Mies Livingston Broom, an American
girl,' superintendent of an ocean department
""store.
CAN GET WHOLE WARDROBES
..So thorough is. that establishment that, if a.
passenger were to come on board in haste and
onlf the clothes she stood in, she could purchase
and have fitted before the first nightfall at sea
a complete and ultrafashiohable wardrobe aiid
be in perfect readiness for the evening 'dance in
the ballroom, inclosed with glass, on one of the
promenade decks.; "
The mingling of convergences and gran
deurs tebe found on a liner such as the Cunarder
Mayretapia has been 'widely heraldeJ, from the
series of decks' that use .up the advance guard of
the alphabet in their nopenclature to the black-and-gold
elevators that insist on completing the
illusion of the BoaUng hotel;"" -,
; A floating hotel and that of the most ele-..
gant kind i what the first-class .liner has evo
Jutej into this eummer; and, it is -along that
t rend of development that- the steamships
Jva isenn Auguste , v ictoria and Amerika have
carried the elegance of entertainment to a level
tihfen has astounded the most wealthv nf "
elers not that wealthy travelers have not en
joyed uch luxuries elsewhere, but that even
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riches have their limit, and Mamtnon is sensible"
. enough not to expect strawberries from'the salt
seas. ' i ' . 1 '. "
A daily; newspaper Mammon learnedto
count on as a. sort of curiosity of WaveL
Mammon got his first real thrill when his steam-'
ship paper appeared with the daily market :re-
ports and the exciting fact that Steel preferred
had risen two points. . - .
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box of the solid ocean bank vault . -Modestly,, after .their ; triumphs of . system "
which was assigned to her suite.. nd refrigeration, the modern Yatels determined
" V But along with these things came all the ? take a little .fall out-of Apicius, of ancient
comforts and adjuncts of the great hotel- baths Kome, in tho matter of fisk . " , ,
gymnasia, social ha Us, landsmen's bedsteads in . .. t..,. " ' ' '
place of the seadog'a bunk refined into a berth, v ; ' FRESH FISH AT SEA ; .
f-ASTtf f118 en garenemiTher btiih in the Alnerika and the Kaiserin
1DHl S ?d "v9 If -carte 'Auguste enormous tank,,' each 15 feet long, .3
tXS u 1 T10? ,Qat9 If ast, the' feet high and 3 feet wide, located on the' boat
Z-..? "ponducted,on the w scale and by ' deck; .divided into two compartments and roofed
the same m&nairement as amil e; V.nAUmV :t. ..LT " ,
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fruits, butter, eggs and milk at Cherbourg, and
countless tons of ice' always on board, were prac
ticable for a steamer wnose voyage might last a
week at the utmost. '- '. A
Butythere vwere'v refinementsi 'of living to
which hotel management' forever . aspires,- even
mpugn mey oe lorever, beyoua its. achievement.
Mr., and. Mrs: Mamibon musf be convinced that
' not only, is the 'sea safe, but, to their unlimited
. enign as.any uaraen ot iidentney
"vuw ..wMi-.penwaxea,Bteei Duutneaas
.to prevent ; the , escape of . water
lu ?re
in ; heavy
weatner.
MORNING, JUNE . 13, -1009
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To any one' f amiliar with the difSculties of
applying fresh water on shipboard and of keep
ing fresh-water fish- alive ; in , anything except
their native streams, the daring of that attempt
lordered ,on .the - dive .after the Ehinegold, and
Id Apieius must- have grinned as ! he yanked
another lamprey out of the waters of the Styx.
.But, marvelous to. relate, all the fish lived
and stayed fat and hearty, until, figuring at the
tables of the epicurean Mammons in the restau
rant, they; enabled hundreds of luxurious trav-
eers to get fetter and heartier.
The adventurers of the table after that vic
tory over nature ,'felf like the Wright brothers
after their first, glides, downhill.: They engaged
a highly, expert gardener named Petersen,, made
ium a member of the regular-staff and turned
him loose", with carte blancho to spend anything
and d6 anything if he would only guarantee to
provide, fresh fruits, 'salads and vegetables. -,
V Anybody who Imows the difficulties; of flower
gardening fid .trucking 'along the-Csefl$lbre can
fom some" i4ea , of the courage that attempted.
,to do.it-.with.iand a thousand miles away.
- - I ltJias-peenJlone-tniB aeasen and 4one- a hand herself. 1 About themiUdle of -ilaywben
.on so extensive a ? scale i that f the r strawberries ? the' Amerika was three' days out on her way! to
fresh from the. vines are -mere -incidental of. Xew York," several' hyacinths, taken, aboard at
ocean- travel t6day,' although -they are among ? Hamburg,: opened their Duds in' the palm room
".the' newest and most uneSpected of its delights, -of the, restaurant,: - V " V
I 'Kighf on the sun. deck of these giant Bteain-" : . A f ew hours, and the jtravelerg beheld, hov
ships rises the greenhouse, built of staunch steel, :? ering about thetn,! great' butterflies with darkly
"with ! a profusion of v windows equal to that of J-i velvet 'wings spotted with crimson and gold, the
any greenhouse ashore., hey can all be opened f
and ,.lhe-sunshine. In. inclement, ; -
they are .as readily. Itept, closed and
.winter: coils of steam pipes convert .
S&sjrer-srr caer
tho structure into a hothouse quite as effective
as any conservatory, on land. : . -..
. There several hundred strawberry plants are
installed at the .end of every voyage, so gauged
; in their development that they Tipen-during the
trip. There, too, springp" overnight the mush
, rooms and various greens that- are ued in the
restaurant, including the lettuce, which, supplied
100 orders. during a single trip, and all -the flow
era and decoratiYe, plants needed for jthe beauti
fying of -tables 'and apartments. . tv i
BUTTERFLIES BOBBEO lip
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' ' , , Could there possibly be anything else in th
way of ruinously ' expensive simplicity - which
' Mrs. Mammon and the "Misses, Mammon might
.crave? : s..-- - , -: . -' "
' Ah, yes I Was there hot some Haronn Al
i Rasdhid dream of a butterfly dance at the Belle-
'vue-Stratfdrd; in Philadelphia," where 'live, gor
i geous : butterflies were . released in . the. 'palatial
ballroom to complete the gay anJ picturesque
scene? But that, alas lf.vas; a Parnassian flight
beyond even Mammon's range. , -C,
-. Foolish'desparl ; Nature. perhaps stung to
very souls, of animate nature come, by sheer ae-
fcident.to'dazzleambitions; man with" .-the love- -
. - liness of his own creations,' and a source o '
'amazed delight until ; the ending ot tlie voyage.